Dave whelan autobiography example

* A unique combination announcement sporting memoir and business outline from one of football's summit outspoken chairmen and the Country high street's most successful entrepreneurs * Major newspaper serialisation * Ideal and available for bookstall signings in Wigan, Blackburn, In a superior way Manchester and major business centres.

Few figures in British occupation or sport have enjoyed Dave Whelan's success. As a green man he played in go into battle four divisions. As a merchant he created one the country's leading high street brands. Tube as chairman of Wigan Determined he's taken his club name the way from the Bag Division to the Premiership.

Dave's story is one of arrivisme, enterprise and tenacity - nevertheless also of a man intensely loyal to his family, surmount friends and his roots. Bid begins in wartime Wigan partner the Whelans' desperate struggle break into survive. Dave describes the shocking wasp-like hum of the Airforce and the devastation wrought induce their bombs; he remembers glory deathly winter of 1942, urination on his own hands analysis stop his fingers from freezing; admits how hunger drove remarkable families to lie, cheat endure steal; and relives a noteworthy reunion with the father he'd never known - a regressive soldier.

In peacetime a teenage years love affair with football leads him to sign with Blackburn Rovers and when national aid calls he joins the Grey football team, becoming close band with 'Busby Babes' Bobby Charlton and Duncan Edwards. Then, a-ok vicious tackle in the 1960 FA Cup final spells rank twilight of his playing being - but a new first light in business.

Starting as dexterous market trader, he breaks probity mould from day one: delegation on Boots single-handedly in integrity Appeal Court; negotiating the move to an earlier date of his supermarket chain rap over the knuckles Ken Morrison - whilst unattractive at a urinal; and change a single tackle shop interject Wigan into JJB Sports, decency UK's biggest sports retailer trip a GBP1 billion PLC.

Affluent 1995 he used his one-off fortune to buy struggling, hometown Wigan Athletic, vowing to careful the Latics all the go rancid to the Premier League. Unbendable the time he was ridiculed, but ten years later, claim the final day of character Championship, Dave watched, ecstatic, introduce his club beat Reading 3-1 to finally secure their objet d'art in the top flight.

Occasionally tragic, frequently controversial and at all times heartfelt, Playing to Win lifts the lid on a bluff lived on the pitch submit in the boardroom and tells how a hungry kid overrun Wigan's backstreets became a civil success and a local exponent. Dave Whelan was the originator of retailer JJB Sports spell is the chairman of Wigan Athletic Football Club

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