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Ex-footballer Ian 'Tickets' Thompson is the bad-boy darling of a top-rating television sports show. The more offensive he is, the more the fans love him. But how will a million viewers, the police and his trigger-happy media tycoon employer react to his unprovoked assault on a homeless man?
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AuthorTony Wilson
Tony Wilson was both critical and popular winner of the second series of ABC TV's Race Around the World. He has played football and worked as a commercial solicitor, a breakfast show host for radio 3RRR and a writer. He is the author of a number of children's books and the 2006 World Cup diary Australia United.
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Who loved this book?John Harms, ABC broadcaster and author
Some Australian sports fans who know and love footy would find Tony Wilson’s magnificent satirical novel Players sacrilegious. Which is why it is so good. The laugh-a-minute tale celebrates the absurdity of the hyper-commercial football world, particularly targeting those media types who will go to any lengths to exploit the popularity of the much-loved code for their own (excessive) gain. You will recognise the characters: the tycoon and his wife, the Mr Everywhere football show host, the football playboy clinging to his reputation, the earnest analyst at the rival station, the coaches and footballers themselves. Tony Wilson appreciates the essence of the game; the game as it can be. In Players his pen becomes his scalpel, his deep incision revealing that the innards of football at the highest level might just be riddled by cancer.
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