Whilst generally agreeing with this comment , do give Mike Gregory's Biting Back a read , an exception to the rule . Superb .

Most sports biographies tend to be pretty anodyne affairs although Terry Newton's was poignant as I read it after he took his own life. I've just finished reading Gareth Hock's. When I say finished I don't mean finished to the end. What an absolute prat. I really shouldn't have expected anything else but I thought it might be interesting. He comes across even worse in the book than he does in real life. Luckily it was a library book.

Cheers, I'll seek a copy out

The culture shock elements of Stanley Gene's, make it an interesting and entertaining read, although obviously it will appeal more to robins than airlie birds.

The Cooke book I want to read would be 50% Hull FC, 30% Rovers (including the cross-city switch), 20% Paul Cooke. Which wouldn't be a balanced reflection of his career, I admit.

My suspicion now though is that it'll be unbalanced the other way, with Durham passing over the bits Rovers fans would revel in as quickly as is decent.

His highlight for rovers was surely the game at the KC where he was dropped for turning up pished? The ground was rocking that day to chants of "where's your cookie gone?" The blokes an idiot so I suspect his book will reflect that. Does he still talk about himself in the 3rd person?

I heard the foreword is by Neil Hudgell , who supported Cookie and offered legal advice prior to publication of his book .

I think his Dad advised him a lot of the time , and Neil Hudgell was a father figure to him whilst at Rovers .

Cookie did well at Rovers , okay he had his moments but on the whole he was good for Rovers . Helped big time keeping the club in SL and often ripped Hull apart in the derbies and relished in doing so . Great player and a really nice bloke off the field .

Glad he has published his book like he promised him Mum he would , always said he would reveal the truth about how Hull FC really treat him and their failure on their part regarding his contract .

James Rule and Kath Hetherington will be a tad nervous I guess .

Loved the photo of Stanley's "House."

A Very good read .

Library then no penny's spent

think the only time cooke played very well for hull kr was always against hull fc

Why what happened? Did a surgeon screw up an operation on his writing hand?

Do you undesrstand what a foreword is In a publication ?
Did what surgeon screw up on who's writing hand ?
I'm not one to mock a persons intelligence but your testing me small ears .

Maybe if you had bigger ears you would have listened at school and that would have resulted in you been a tad more intelligent , in hindsight it probably doesn't matter how big or small your ears are you could have ears that Dumbos Dad would would be jealous of but you still wouldn't make sense.

Fail.

You edited it and still failed