We are excited to announce the arrival of the limited edition hardback copies of the latest addition to the Football Shorts series, Arsenal and England legend Tony Adams’ revealing and riveting 1996: Reflections on the year that changed my life.
Picture by Alexandra Arlett
Tony was in Central London this week with Floodlit Dreams founder and co-writer on the book, Ian Ridley, to sign copies ahead of them being sent out before the April 14 publication date especially for all who have ordered the special editions exclusive to this website.
There is still time to join that list, by ordering below.
1996: Reflections on the year that changed my life – Limited Edition Signed Hardback
Pre-order now – publishing April 14th
It was the summer of Euro 96 and England was in party mood as the nation hosted a major tournament, revelling in watching Gazza and Co reach the semi-finals. For the national team’s captain Tony Adams, though, it masked a misery that had been building all year, with his wife leaving and his children being removed from him as a result of his dangerous and damaging drinking. Following Gareth Southgate’s crushing penalty miss against Germany, Adams proceeded to embark on a 44-day bender to drown sorrows that learned how to swim and led him into some seamy, sordid situations. Finally, he could take no more and desperation drove him to quit the booze and get help. A year that had begun in dark despair would end in a new lightness of being. In 1996,Adams revisits in candid, graphic detail that year when football came home but England’s thirty years of hurt continued. And, as he reaches his 60th birthday, he reflects with trademark honesty and accumulated wisdom on his own remarkable thirty years offhurt.