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Fast Forward: The Autobiography

The Hard Road to Football Success

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Fast Forward is a thought-provoking and gripping autobiography about Andrew Cole's determination to succeed against all the odds.

Misconceptions have stalked Andrew Cole like a hatchet-man defender determined to cut him down to size. In the world of modern-day football, his reserved demeanour was often interpreted as surly intransigence. Alongside an aptitude for goalscoring, it was widely believed, ran an attitude problem. In Fast Forward, a candid and inspirational autobiography, Cole finally presents his side of the story.

The son of a Windrush-generation Jamaican miner from a humble background in Nottingham, he was viewed as a one-man awkward squad by George Graham and Jimmy Hill before Kevin Keegan identified him as the man to bring goals to Newcastle.

However, only when Alex Ferguson, his 'second father', took him to Manchester United did Cole begin to belie his image, amassing goals, medals and England caps. Two decades on from United's historic Treble, he reveals the inside track on Eric Cantona and David Beckham, Roy Keane and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

After a career spent challenging assumptions and adversity, he had to summon fresh reserves of resilience to battle illness and depression.

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Good book that tells the life of a great footballer but unfortunately it’s spoilt by the narrator.

Good book

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Great guy and brilliant football book! As a United fan I can’t recommend this enough.

Excellent insight

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The Narration ruined it for me, in another Genre he'd be great but he so obviously doesn't know anything about football even pronouncing well known names wrong but I will say at the end of the book as there is other issues it worked

narration absolutely terrible!!!

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Jim Byrne

A successful career described very well. I was full of sympathy for his health battles. Fantastic football player but also sounds like a very humble genuine guy.
Enjoyed this. Good narration

The Highs and Lows

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Despite complaints in other reviews around the narration, I still went ahead and purchased this audiobook. Firstly, the narration is fine, no complaints there from me.

This is a really interesting listen. Hearing all about Cole’s fractious relationships with Keegan, Hoddle, Souness, Redknapp, Sheringham and many others is interesting to hear and as a lifelong United fan this book is up there with others written by Neville, Keane et al. Five star for me!

Excellent story of an interesting character

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