Well, I can only go on available evidence of course. Not a Sun reader by nature.

Pity it had to be The Sun actually.

It was never going to be the Daily Mail.

I always enjoy reading sport auto biogs, but they have to be honest. I've read Beckhams, and he's scared of saying anything bad about anyone, whereas Robbie Fowlers is like a breath of fresh air, he tells exactly what he thinks. Hope longs is like that.

He exposes a few home truths, like the Brian Noble International coach fiasco. Some good funny articles and you don,t have to be a saints fan.

Ah, but the difference there is that Beckham's could be a book about his trips to the hairdressers and it'd still sell by the million, whereas Fowler as to fill his with scandal because otherwise nobody would be interested in the life of an average Scouse footy player.

Ulitimately, the rule is, when it comes to autobiographies, the less well known you are the more juicy you make your book, so as to try and sell more.

Therefore 'working class' is now not classified in terms of economic wealth rather more about a state of mind and aspiration?

Probably.....Ask yourself, If you won £5m on the lottery would you stop being working class??....Or do you become middle to upper class on the grounds of you being suddenly loaded??

Personally, it is probably a lifestyle choice....Michael Carroll, for all his throwing his money about, was nothing more than chav, lower than working class scum....

i red fowlers . belting read but best ive read is barry mcdermots. absolute classic that one .

how low can longy sink just to make a few bob,

I did, well wrote.

The excerpts from the Sun are illuminating and depressing in equal measure. I've gone away with an even lower opinion of him than I had before. Not sure that is the aim of an autobiography. www.thesun.co.uk/search/searchAc ... =sean+long

The excerpts from the Sun are illuminating and depressing in equal measure. I've gone away with an even lower opinion of him than I had before. Not sure that is the aim of an autobiography. www.thesun.co.uk/search/searchAc ... =sean+long

Radliskis is a belter.

The aim is to make as much money as you can, so you just add a bit of Poetic Licence here and there.

I'd agree with that. I didn't think my opinion of Long could get any lower but he's managed to prove me wrong.

"I matched George Best for women...." He just makes me want to punch him repeatedly in the face.

LOL.

Who do you think had more success with the ladies really? Both good looking, world famous, talented chaps

is that george and sean long in his academy days?

Soz - removed the first pic as I thought it may break the AUP in its suggestiveness

nah, it was ok, i didn't get any suggestive sense, it certainly didn't make me want to nob/be nobbed by, George Best.

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What annoys me is that the only 2 times this year that Rugby League has been on the back page of the paper this year is when Gareth Hock tested positive for Cocaine and now Sean Long shaming Rugby League and bringing reputable names into a 5 year old controversy whilst trying to make a few extra quid with his book.

It's only ever the negative side of the sport that gets a decent ammount of coverage.

But that's the British media all over. You don't see headlines about wonderful people who foster 60 troubled kids over 30 years or people who spend their lives doing aid work in Africa. You see headlines about scum families who cheat thousands a year in benefits, murderers, rapists etc etc.

I matched George Best for women...." He just makes me want to punch him repeatedly in the face.

are but longy had to pay for his were as the stunners that best had would have gladly paid him. either that or longy still in dream land or cloud cuckoo land

Didn't the Sun give Warrington's challenge cup home-coming front and back page in a wrap-around way?

People moan about RL getting no coverage in the papers and then moan when it does.

when its bad for the game and now he's implicated other players. line should be drawn under the incident and lets move forward not rake it up to line his pockets. hole he's dug seems to be getting bigger dragging others into, not the publicity the game wants or needs, just my opinion

No, the challenge cup semi final and final were featured on several back and front pages of national newpapers.
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