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Which player is building a shark tank under the glass floor of his kitchen?
Which WAG believes the first black President of the USA was Winston Churchill?
Which chairman ordered his manager to field a starting line-up of 14 players?
Which England international gave a glowing review to a restaurant which hadn't opened yet. and neglected to mention he was its owner?
Which diddy winger bought a giant Hummer... but was too small to climb into it?
For the past decade, the Daily Mirror's Steve Anglesey has been collecting footballers' finest foul-ups in his weekly 3PM column - uncovering the answers to these pressing questions - and many more - in the process.
The 3PM Annual: The Stupidest Football Book Ever is the first collection of the wildest and weirdest stories from 3PM and it's guaranteed to have players and managers throughout the country on the edge of their seats.
These are the stories they'd rather you didn't hear. But luckily Steve and his intrepid team of investigative reporters have scoured the training grounds, dressing rooms and a few unmentionable places to bring you 'The Stupidest Football Book Ever'! It includes a definitive reader's guide to the 100 maddest people in the beautiful game that will have you questioning how an earth it came to be called that. The result is a riot of a read that is sure to provoke plenty of laughs and more than a few red faces among football's celebrity glitterati.
With a foreword by cult hero and current Derby County star Robbie Savage, 110 black and white illustrations and hilarious unseen out-take photos from the Daily Mirror's archive The 3PM Annual: The Stupidest Football Book Ever is the perfect present for anyone with an interest in the mad and crazy world of football.
Author
Steve Anglesey's 3PM football gossip column has appeared weekly in the Daily Mirror since 2001. He is a co-creator of the popular MirrorFootball.co.uk website, having previously edited websites including Football365.com - where he originated the infamous Mediawatch column. Steve has created and edited magazines for some of the country's biggest football clubs., including his beloved Manchester City, with whom he shares an aversion to silverware - Steve has been nominated five times as Sports Diarist of the Year without winning.
He is a regular contributor to the Mirror and to FourFourTwo magazine, for whom he has interviewed everyone from Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard. His longest interview, with Ian Holloway, took 10 hours during a matchday; his shortest, with Sir Alex Ferguson, which lasted 90 seconds. His football hero and favourite interview subject was the late Malcolm Allison - Steve is still paying off the restaurant bill.
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