Premier Leech
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Premier Leech: A Story of Greed, Sleaze and Corruption is a book written by Neil Humphreys
, the author of Match Fixer and Be My Baby, published in December 2010. It is about behind-the-scenes story of famous footballers' dark side of life.
Overview
This book is a fictional book that touches on the ills of modern football. It gives an insight to the reality that happens inside the Premier League.
Plot
The story is based upon childhood friends Scott and Ross, two of the Premier League’s highest earning players, and their agent Jimmy - none of whom could care less about the state of the game.
These Barking-born Essex boys have the world at their feet. Jimmy settles player transfers with bungs; Ross spends more time at the blackjack table than in the six yard box and Scott is sleeping his way around London.
But it doesn’t matter as they all play in the Premier League. They feel untouchable - until a mysterious Saudi businessman plots to take over the club, heightening the culture of greed and immorality to such extreme levels that even Scott, Ross and Jimmy may not be able to survive.
Premier Leech is a timely and compelling novel based on England’s natural obsession in all its celebrity-addicted glory.
Review
Marshall Cavendish, $15.99
From The Age, Melbourne, Australia July 2011
FOOTBALLERS' Wives, eat your heart out. Neil Humphreys's scurrilous satire on the vapidity, greed and sleaze of the English Premier League makes compulsive reading. No question English football has been debased by filthy lucre. Humphreys has carved an engrossing and hilarious novel from a world of millionaire yobs, unctuous managers, fame-hungry WAGs and tabloids. Football star Scott doesn't think twice about behaving badly. He sleeps with his best friend's wife and the race is on to keep the affair out of the papers. I haven't read a satire as racy and biting since Joe Eszterhas's American Rhapsody (a hatchet job on the Clinton presidency, in which Bill says of Hillary: "That woman's eaten more pussy than I have.") Humphreys is similarly lurid: "Her face was darker than Barack Obama's arse", for one. Even if soccer isn't your thing, you'll find Premier Leech entertaining — disturbing, too. After all, the AFL is heading down the same dark road.
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http://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=125383
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Premier-Leech-Story-Sleaze-Corruption/dp/9814328421
http://enzo1103.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/premier-leech/
http://soccernews.bigsoccer.com/article/0fCw2NA99A6KY?q=Barclays+Premier+League
Neil Humphreys
Neil Humphreys is a British humour columnist and author of three best-selling humorous books about Singapore - Notes From an Even Smaller Island , Scribbles from the Same Island and Final Notes from a Great Island...
, the author of Match Fixer and Be My Baby, published in December 2010. It is about behind-the-scenes story of famous footballers' dark side of life.
Overview
This book is a fictional book that touches on the ills of modern football. It gives an insight to the reality that happens inside the Premier League.
Plot
The story is based upon childhood friends Scott and Ross, two of the Premier League’s highest earning players, and their agent Jimmy - none of whom could care less about the state of the game.
These Barking-born Essex boys have the world at their feet. Jimmy settles player transfers with bungs; Ross spends more time at the blackjack table than in the six yard box and Scott is sleeping his way around London.
But it doesn’t matter as they all play in the Premier League. They feel untouchable - until a mysterious Saudi businessman plots to take over the club, heightening the culture of greed and immorality to such extreme levels that even Scott, Ross and Jimmy may not be able to survive.
Premier Leech is a timely and compelling novel based on England’s natural obsession in all its celebrity-addicted glory.
Review
Marshall Cavendish, $15.99
From The Age, Melbourne, Australia July 2011
FOOTBALLERS' Wives, eat your heart out. Neil Humphreys's scurrilous satire on the vapidity, greed and sleaze of the English Premier League makes compulsive reading. No question English football has been debased by filthy lucre. Humphreys has carved an engrossing and hilarious novel from a world of millionaire yobs, unctuous managers, fame-hungry WAGs and tabloids. Football star Scott doesn't think twice about behaving badly. He sleeps with his best friend's wife and the race is on to keep the affair out of the papers. I haven't read a satire as racy and biting since Joe Eszterhas's American Rhapsody (a hatchet job on the Clinton presidency, in which Bill says of Hillary: "That woman's eaten more pussy than I have.") Humphreys is similarly lurid: "Her face was darker than Barack Obama's arse", for one. Even if soccer isn't your thing, you'll find Premier Leech entertaining — disturbing, too. After all, the AFL is heading down the same dark road.
Link
http://marshallcavendish.com/marshallcavendish/genref/index.aspx
http://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=125383
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Premier-Leech-Story-Sleaze-Corruption/dp/9814328421
http://enzo1103.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/premier-leech/
http://soccernews.bigsoccer.com/article/0fCw2NA99A6KY?q=Barclays+Premier+League