TheLives Less Ordinaryseries brings you the most exciting, adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for men who are time-poor but want the best.Lives Less Ordinarydrops you into extreme first-hand accounts of human experience, whether that's the adrenaline-pumping heights of professional sport, the brutality of the modern battlefield, the casual violence of the criminal world, the mind-blowing frontiers of science, or the excesses of rock 'n' roll, high finance and Hollywood.Lives Less Ordinaryalso brings you some of the finest comic voices around, on every subject from toilet etiquette to Paul Gascoigne.
Paul Gascoigne is a legend, both on and off the pitch, and a hero to a generation of football fans. The man who, during Italia '90, made it OK to cry, and made the English fall in love with football all over again. Despite endless books about him he is still an enigma to most, so who better than his closest confident (and national institution himself), Danny Baker, to explain what truly makes him tick.
This digital bite has been extracted from Danny Baker and Danny Kelly's brilliant bookClassic Football Debates.
Broadcast legend Danny Baker was the pioneering presenter of the original football phone-in 6-0-6 on the BBC until he was fired. Twice. He is now back on the show long term. Danny also has his own show on BBC Radio London. He also began the whole Own Goals and Gaffes Xmas video industry, later jumped on by everyone from Neil Kinnock to Judge Judy and for this he apologises unreservedly. He neither likes nor cares about any other football club than his own (Millwall).
Publishing overlord Danny Kelly is former editor ofNME,QandTotal Sport, and founder of the Football365 website. He has a daily show on TalkSport and broadcasts regularly on BBC 5 Live. He appals Baker by knowing 97.4% of everything there is to know about football and 85.3% about every other sport. Except tennis, which is rubbish because it requires servants to fetch the balls. He loves Spurs but annoys those who sit around him at White Hart Lane by booing the team as they run out just in case.
Danny Baker and Danny Kelly have broadcast their award-scooping stuff for years now and have co-written a weekly sports column for theTimes, until that was sacked too. Immediately after, their Baker&Kelly football podcast became the country's no.1 sports download. NUMBER ONE. There, suck that up all you lily livered hair-trigger quaking BBC execs.
