When you think of the great midfield players of the last thirty years in English Football, you'd immediately mention Gerrard, Lampard, Keane, Robson, Ince but John Wark was an exceptionally underrated player. A man with an incredibly unfashionable moustache and haircut, but an uncanny knack for scoring goals, and scoring them more regularly than any of his more highly paid modern equivalents.

This is a book which tells us a lot about the man and his football, it is written after this career ended, which for me is always a bonus, as it allows time for honesty and reflection rather than the necessity to appear modern, current and inoffensive.

Purchased for £13.99 in Waterstones this hardback book follows the man with the coolest moustache in World football on an upward journey from Ipswich Town to Liverpool, playing in one of the strongest Scotland sides ever to play and also starring in Escape to Victory with Pele, Bobby Moore and Michael Caine.

Wark's story is an interesting one from the 1970's working with a young Bobby Robson with the elements of drinking culture that summed up clubs and footballers back then, through a dream move to Liverpool, where he was a success in parts, through experiences such as Heysel to the return to his spiritual home of Portman Road, this is an interesting and honest account of a career in football from somebody who played in the old booze and muddy boots culture right up to the start of the Sky era when money became phenomenal, therefore he has an informed view on lots of players, clubs and the development of football in the UK.

I would say the book at times pays too much attention to the boozing and at times I even felt he undersold his own role in some of the great Ipswich and Liverpool teams of the era, but this is a funny and at times sad account of a footballers life.

It's not one of the great football books and doesn't offer much for non-football fans, but for anyone who remembers this moustachioed wonder, this is an enjoyable read.