![]() ![]() "But I'm sure those fellas would look at it and say, 'It's obvious Paul didn't want this on the front of his book'. "I didn't see it until the book was finished, and then I thought, 'Why did they have to put in something like that?' If I was a Roy Keane, a Liam Brady, a Johnny Giles, a Ronnie Whelan, I'd have been insulted. His book is subtitled "The story of Ireland's Greatest Ever Footballer", and I can't help wondering whether this quietly-spoken (when sober), fiercely intelligent, engagingly self-effacing man concurs with the description. His superb, corruscatingly candid autobiography is called Back From The Brink, and the brink refers to the precipice overlooking the grim canyon of alcoholic self-destruction on which he has teetered many times.īut let's not start with the booze. ![]() It is disconcerting finally to come face to face with Paul McGrath in his agent's office in the heart of Dublin, for I have just spent a couple of hours walking round the city seeing him gazing out at me from every bookshop window, under the banner "Number One bestseller". ![]()
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