Book description
The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting,
adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for
men who are time-poor but want the best. Lives Less Ordinary
drops you into extreme first-hand accounts of human experience,
whether that's the adrenaline-pumping heights of professional sport,
the brutality of the modern battlefield, the casual violence of the
criminal world, the mind-blowing frontiers of science, or the excesses
of rock 'n' roll, high finance and Hollywood. Lives Less Ordinary
also brings you some of the finest comic voices around, on every
subject from toilet etiquette to Paul Gascoigne.
Paul Gascoigne is a legend, both on and off the pitch, and a hero to
a generation of football fans. The man who, during Italia '90, made it
OK to cry, and made the English fall in love with football all over
again. Despite endless books about him he is still an enigma to most,
so who better than his closest confident (and national institution
himself), Danny Baker, to explain what truly makes him tick.
This digital bite has been extracted from Danny Baker and Danny
Kelly's brilliant book Classic Football Debates.
Broadcast legend Danny Baker was the pioneering presenter of the
original football phone-in 6-0-6 on the BBC until he was fired. Twice.
He is now back on the show long term. Danny also has his own show on
BBC Radio London. He also began the whole Own Goals and Gaffes Xmas
video industry, later jumped on by everyone from Neil Kinnock to Judge
Judy and for this he apologises unreservedly. He neither likes nor
cares about any other football club than his own (Millwall).
Publishing overlord Danny Kelly is former editor of NME,
Q and Total Sport, and founder of the Football365
website. He has a daily show on TalkSport and broadcasts regularly on
BBC 5 Live. He appals Baker by knowing 97. 4% of everything there is
to know about football and 85. 3% about every other sport. Except
tennis, which is rubbish because it requires servants to fetch the
balls. He loves Spurs but annoys those who sit around him at White
Hart Lane by booing the team as they run out just in case.
Danny Baker and Danny Kelly have broadcast their award-scooping
stuff for years now and have co-written a weekly sports column for the
Times, until that was sacked too. Immediately after, their
Baker & Kelly football podcast became the country's no. 1 sports
download. NUMBER ONE. There, suck that up all you lily livered
hair-trigger quaking BBC execs.
