The Game: Player. Pundit. Fan.

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Although he lost out to Cristiano Ronaldo, he was nevertheless awarded the Young Player of the Season by the Official Supporters' Club. One of the best loved voices of the game, Micah Richards is now a pundit for Sky Sports and BBC Sport. There is very little in the way of salacious gossip or unique insight into the life of a professional footballer. At the start of the 2012–13 season, Richards suffered an ankle injury during the Summer Olympics tournament and was sidelined for a month.

At the end of the 2006–07 season, he went on to make thirty–five appearances and scoring once in all competitions. But this was a charming read, that lifts the lid on the footballer lifestyle and tries to tell you what it's really like - warts and all. CBS takes its soccer coverage to a new level with the UEFA Champions League and Concacaf Nations League".The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. After the game finished in a 1–1 draw, pundit Alan Hansen and Alan Shearer both praised Richards’ performance. NOTE: other restrictions can be a result of our security platform detecting potential malicious activity.

In December 2007, the News of the World published an article about Richards when he was involved in an incident in a disabled toilet. Despite being sidelined on two occasions later in the 2008–09 season, [63] he went on to make fifty appearances and scoring once in all competitions. The game isn’t quite what I was expecting, when I first broke through, when I thought I was invincible. Towards the end of the 2011–12 season, Richards’ playing time was reduced and found himself placed on the substitute bench, due to the hamstring injury he sustained.By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.

In The Game, Micah reflects on how he got to where he is today and on the many wins and losses along the way. At the end of the 2015–16 season, he went on to make twenty–eight appearances and scoring two times in all competitions. Since the start of the 2007–08 season, Richards regained his first-team place, playing in the right-back position. Richards began playing football when he was young and he played for the Leeds United youth system as a striker, but he was released when he was around eight years old. Between December and February, Richards found himself out of the first team on three occasions, due to injuries.

Hits so many areas that other books of this genre ignore or leave out, without feeling the need to include the inane likes of ' we went to Wolves and won 1-0.

n The Game, Micah shares his funniest and frankest stories from on and off the pitch, be it arriving at his first England training session with two left boots, attempting to supervise the infamous Mario Balotelli or winding up Roy Keane on Super Sunday. He might not have had the most glittering career but it was still interesting to read his stories of football from the perspective of a player thrust into the limelight at a very young age and was also one of the players at Man City during their transition from mid table Premier League team to the powerhouse they are today. After the match, Richards was praised by Manager Remi Garde when he dealt with the situation with the club's supporters.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).