Episode 23: Tony Cascarino - Full Time

In Episode 23, we discuss Full Time – the secret life of Tony Cascarino as told to Paul Kimmage. Despite having earned 88 caps for them, scoring 19 goals, the book is famed for the revelation that Cascarino did not in fact qualify to play for Ireland. Although was that really the case or were they just try to grab headlines and move copies of the book?

 

Twenty-four years after its publication, with Cascarino’s career highlights long forgotten, the book remains a stalwart of lists of sports books recommendations. Shorn of the empty platitudes of so-many football autobiographies that came before it, the book influenced many that came since. It is a landmark football autobiography of searing honesty.

 

Strap up your earholes friends and join us for a ride down memory lane. Its Tony Cascarino, its Jack Charlton, its Italia 90.