It's Been Emotional

I did enjoy this autobiography. Vinnie states in the prefix of the book that he wrote this after being in therapy for a couple of year to control his "Dog", and he makes no secret of the fact he is writing this book out of discoveries he made during therapy, hence the title of the book. Vinnie looks back through his life with the wisdom of experience.The great thing about this book is Vinnie manages to get me as a reader on his side without sounding childish or bitter. He put his hands up and owns up to his mistakes, says looking back I would have done this differently, but at the time this is what I was feeling. He talks about the friendship and relationships, but he does not dwell on them. If you are a friend or family member you are 100%, not need to say any more.If you are not a football fan you will (like me), and live in the UK you still probably heard of Vinnie in some sort of trouble on and off the pitch. This is one of the things he wanted to clean up in this book. He played hard, fast, aggressive and successful; however no matter his on pitch performances, his reviews were always negative. After reading this book I have done back and YouTubed some of his matches and Vinnie's commentary of the matches is spot on in my opinion. He went for or defended the ball aggressively and shot for the goal every chance he got. More often than not it went in. In my opinion that is the way the game is supposed to be played. If more players played that way I would watch football more; instead of having players flying and diving for free kick every time some on touched them. Not being able to break this negativity that the press had of him is what ultimately had him trying out for films. Where he was getting good to rave reviews from the start. Also it is worth remembering Vinnie was playing football before footballers were making the super-exuberant money they are today.Vinnie has a no nonsense style in his writing and in life. If you say something about he be prepared to be called on it, if you meet him. I respect for for it. Vinnie makes no secret as he has little acting experience he played the hard man roles he was given as he would naturally and there is nothing wrong with giving people what they want as he was told.I really good enjoyable book. The only reason I could not give this book 5 stars is because some of the passages are a bit disjointed he starts talking about something then mentions something else and come back to the point he was making. A true strength of this book is if you do not agree or are a fan of Vinnie Jones, by the end of the book you will respect him as a person for what he has been through and achieved.

Football part was very interesting. Hollywood was too focussed on name dropping stars that he had met/worked with rather than providing any real insight.

A really honest and enjoyable book. The early days growing up and making it as a footballer with the crazy gang was excellent reading. The second part about Hollywood leant too heavily on meeting the big name stars, as opposed to interesting stories. Overall worth reading if your a fan.

Whot a great read . When I started to read I couldn’t put the book down. I have a lot of respect.

Fantastic. Brilliant writing. I have always loved Winnie Jones. When you read the book you just feel as though you are there.

Brutally honest, a little repetitive, but engaging. Like him or not, you can’t help but feel an element of empathy for him, and admire his quest to conquer his demons.

This is similar to sitting through someones holiday photos while they tell you what a great time they had at disneyland - gets very dull, very quickly. It doesn't help that it has been put together by a moron and a sun journalist, or to put it another way two morons. That saying that if you put infinite monkeys and infinite typewriters on an island for infinite time one of them would produce the works of Shakespeare, well for this I reckon if you put two of them on an island for half an hour you would probably end up with something better than this. Avoid at all costs, I only got it (stupidly) because I read a lot of sports autobiographies and feel that you get a deeper understanding of their psyche of successful sports people - this was a moment of weakness when it was on sale for 99p. and I feel ripped off - when its someone so shallow it just does not translate into anything remotely worth anyone's time. these recollections would probably bore the various hanger's on he surrounds himself with, let alone the unsuspecting public. Woeful. My next book needs to be something along the lines of 'how to erase the worst book ever mistakenly taken to print from your brain'. I will some it up for you so you don't need to read it - he's a thug and an idiot who through circumstance has ended up meeting a bunch of famous people. That really is it. terrible, terrible terrible.

Have enjoyed reading this