Up Front - My Autobiography - Kerry Dixon
By Kerry Dixon and Frank Lampard
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Big, blond and a goal-scoring machine, Kerry Dixon delighted Chelsea and England fans during the 1980s. Yet his fall from grace, from the pinnacle of a playing career that had few equals, has been, by his own admission, spectacular.
Kerry's life in recent years has been bedevilled with problems with gambling, drugs and, worst of all, a prison sentence in 2015 after he was convicted of grievous bodily harm following a fight in a pub. At that point, one of football's golden boys finally hit rock bottom. This book is the honest, unflinching account of his rise and fall, and of the new life he is now slowly and patiently building.
His memories of playing in a more robust era of the game, before the days of multi-million-pound salaries and all the rest of the modern football circus, will appeal to plenty of nostalgic football fans, as well as to all those who remember him as one of the game's all-time greats. Equally, his unflinching recollections of his darkest days, culminating in his time in prison, are about as far from the Beautiful Game as anyone can imagine, and as fascinating as they are sometimes uncomfortable. In the end, however, his stunningly successful career at Chelsea has ensured that he remains loved by fans, despite his troubles.
The world is all too familiar with tales of once-famous sportsmen and women falling from grace. Kerry Dixon's story, however, is unique at once for its flashes of humour in adversity, its clear-eyed reflections on a different age of football, when leading players could all too easily be treated as disposable, and for its humility. For Kerry Dixon, as this often moving autobiography shows, the only way is up.
with a foreword by Frank Lamparrd and contributions from Harry Redknapp and Pat Nevin
Kerry Dixon
Kerry Dixon began his professional career with Spurs, but was released by the club, and in 1980 was signed by Reading, scoring 51 league goals in 116 appearances. He played for Chelsea from 1983 to 1991 and his later career included spells with Southampton, Luton Town and Millwall. With 193 goals to his name, he remains Chelsea's third-highest goal scorer of all time, behind only Bobby Tambling and Frank Lampard. He scored four goals in eight appearances for England, and was a member of the 1986 World Cup team in Mexico, scoring the winning goal in England's 1–0 defeat of Brazil before the team was knocked out by Argentina in the quarter-finals. Since retiring, he has worked as a commentator for Chelsea TV.
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