My Defence

by Ashley Cole (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $4.72

  Glory and defeat. Trophies won, records set, supremacy lost. A transfer storm, a legal battle and racist chants. Front page gossip and back page scandal. Loyalty and betrayal. FA Cup and Champions League. Farewell to Highbury. New beginnings. World Cup 2006. the showbiz wedding on the year, and the most talked-about transfer in Premiership history. Forget what you might have read before. This is his story in his words. This is how football really works. Laid bare.

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $4.12

  His phenomenal skill on the pitch and the controversy which has plagued him off it have made Ashley Cole one of the most talked-about players in recent years. Here, from inside the England dressing room, he tells the full story of their bid for World Cup glory in 2006.But this is alsomuch more than a World Cup diary. Cole talks openly about the 2005 'tapping up' scandal, when he was fined GBP100,000 by the FA following a meeting with Chelsea's Mourinho and Kenyon in a hotel room, and the media storm that followed. He reveals the ups and downs ofhis 2005 season at Arsenal, the last at Highbury before the move to a new stadium, and his struggles with injuries and form. And he also, of course, discusses his relationship with Girls Aloud's Cheryl Tweedy and the run-up to their wedding just after the World Cup.