Interview with Micky Adams

Micky Adams joins us to talk about his autobiography - My Life In Football

Biteback publishing writes:

Having spent almost four decades in English football – playing and managing in every professional division – his experience of our national game is almost unrivalled.

As a player, his career took in some of the biggest clubs in the country, including Leeds United, Leicester City and Southampton.

And he shared a dressing room with some of the biggest stars in the game – Steve Bruce, Alan Shearer and Matt Le Tissier – to name but three.

After turning to management, Adams gained four promotions with Fulham, Brighton & Hove Albion, Port Vale and into the Premier League with Leicester City.

In a searingly honest portrait, the Yorkshireman reveals some of the stories behind those roles and also some of the best-loved figures in our game. He details how he should have been sacked by Leeds United on Howard Wilkinson's first day at the club, how he ended up in a police cell with David Speedie, lays bare Le Tissier's genius and the booze-fuelled tour that ended with Shearer jeopardising his career and the author swapping punches with Neil Ruddock. As a manager, the tales come just as thick and fast. How about the time when he spent a night crawling on the floor looking for Ron Atkinson's lost tooth, or what it was really like working for enigmatic Fulham owner Mohamed Al-Fayed? And, of course, there is the inside story of Leicester City's ill-fated trip to La Manga when the club made the headlines after becoming entangled in a sex scandal. Honest and entertaining, Adams lifts the lid on almost forty years' experience in a brutal, yet entertaining, account of life at the sharp end of professional football.