The Rodfather

Author Roddy Collins with Paul Howard
Narrator Roddy Collins
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Run Time 10 hours and 39 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Association football (Soccer), Autobiography: sport, Memoirs.

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Roddy Collins is a football man - now in the sixth decade of a career as a player (at sixteen clubs), manager (twelve clubs) and commentator. And he is a funny man: an unequalled raconteur with a sharp eye for the absurdities of the professional game and spectacular recall. He has made friends wherever he has gone, along with some high-quality enemies. When John Delaney said he could get Roddy a job if he'd just stop criticising him, Roddy replied that he'd 'rather dig holes in the road'.

Now, with the brilliant Paul Howard, Roddy puts it all down on paper for the first time - the adventures, the rows and the craic - in what will be not only one of the funniest but one of the most eye-opening books ever written about professional football.

© Roddy Collins & Paul Howard 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Critics Review

There isn’t a funnier sports book this year – there might not be one for the next decade
Irish Times Books of the Year
Terrific. You will love it. Raw and tender and wild and honest, it will captivate you . . . great stories pack the pages
Sunday Independent
A rollercoaster ride and a great read. It’s hard not to love Roddy Collins after reading The Rodfather
Irish Examiner
Excellent and hilarious
Second Captains
Hard to imagine there’ll be a more entertaining sports book for quite a while
Irish Times
A riot!
Brendan O'Connor
Fascinating and hilarious. Starts with a bang and never falters. Anarchic and wonderful
Joe Brolly
Fantastic. Can’t remember a sports book with so many stories to propel it along. There’s at least three different movies in it
Malachy Clerkin
Candid tales of football, family and everything in between – it’s no surprise The Rodfather’s memoir is just brilliant
Irish Independent
A big man, with big emotions, and a big life . . . a fascinating read
Sunday Independent
What a great book The Rodfather is. A walk on the wild side of football – and a few other games – terrifying and yet massively entertaining. Paul Howard is the best writer in the country
Declan Lynch
Really fabulous
Pat Kenny Show
[The Rodfather] might be the funniest book written since Roddy Doyle’s The Van . . . There’s a laugh on every page
Irish Examiner

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