Phil Tuffnell: What Now? - Phil Tufnell, Peter Hayter

If you don’t like cricket then you wont like this.If you do like the hallowed game then you might like it.The book and author try hard to portray him as a notorious rascal when in reality he’s a pseudo cockney in the gentile world of leather on willow(that’s as risky as it gets ). For all that, he’s Britain’s premier spinner of the ball and should have had a more illustrious career if he wasn’t such a gobby cheeky urchin during his ambivalent journey. Born into a nice middle class London suburb, Tuffnell quickly went of the rails, as he preferred cider and girls on the park, rather than his homework and cricket commitments at ...  Read the complete review