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The Friday Project has bought a memoir about a footballer's life among the lower leagues in England.
Scott Pack, TFP's editor and publisher, bought world rights to Where's Your Caravan? by Chris Hargreaves directly from the author. No advance was paid. The book will be published in August 2011.
The memoir, which will be written by the former footballer and not ghosted, charts Hargreaves' career, which began with him as a youth team player at Everton. He moved to Grimsby Town in 1989 where he was rumoured to become its first ever £1m footballer. The deal never happened and Hargreaves went on to play for Scarborough, Hull City, West Brom, Hereford United, Plymouth
Argyle, Northampton Town, Brentford, Oxford United and Torquay United.
The publisher described the book as "the sort of football memoir we don't see enough of these days". It said: "It takes us from his wild youth - lots of sex and drugs and drink - through to domesticated family man - school runs and flatpack furniture with plenty of football in between."
Pack said: "Chris's book is the perfect antidote to the piles of showbiz puff masquerading as football memoirs that we seem to get from the Premier League superstars. This is the real story of football, one that transcends club allegiance and tells it like it really is."
Hargreaves said: "I am delighted to be able to tell the story of life on the road for a professional footballer. The same emotions and ups and downs as the Premier League, just on £100,000 less a week and with no Bentley or nanny."