Author: Stelling, Jeff Autobiography: sportPublished on 7 November 2024 by Headline Publishing Group (Headline Book Publishing) in the United Kingdom.Hardback | 320 pages, 25 b&w and colour photos242 x 164 x 30 | 524g 'Made me laugh and cry' Chris Kamara'Such an enjoyable book' Ally McCoist'Jeff's autobiography is a riot of humour and nostalgia. A great read' Phil Thompson'Saturday Afternoon Fever is great fun - right out of the top drawer' Paul MersonA profoundly personal, warmly nostalgic and deliciously funny memoir by the legendary Sky Sports anchorman Jeff Stelling, chronicling a life spent obsessing about 'The Beautiful Game' ever since he was a little boy, and underpinned by a deeply rooted love of football and of people.For a quarter of a century the iconic Sky Sports football presenter JeffStelling was the face and voice of football television. As the hostof Soccer Saturday, a results show with National Treasure status, he expertly presided over a live panel of former footballers watching the most exciting sporting chapter of the weekend, on the telly, in front of a transfixed audience of millions, watching, unbelievably... on the telly.Beginning atmidday and wrapping just after the Premier League's players had showered andchanged, the show's popularity stitchedStelling into the fabric of match-day rituals up and down the country. For fans, the weekend didn't exist without an hour or four of SoccerSaturday.Saturday Afternoon Fever is Stelling's moving and fascinating memoir: a love letter to the game that has shaped and definedhim, as it has millions of other football fans across the UK. This is thepassionate, engaging tale of one fan's journey from the terraces at Hartlepool's rainy Victoria Park in the 1960s to the sleek and salubrious confines of the Sky Sports studios, an adventure that spans well over half a century and some of the most fast-changing, exciting periods in football's history.
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