2006-09-21 10:55:35 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Most of them are as thick as planks so someone else writes the books for them and they are purely to make them loads of money.They are so full of themselves to actually think that we are interested in their short lives.
2006-09-21 10:59:40 · answer #1 · answered by little weed 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A career as a footballer generally ends at around 35 years of age. Some go on to be managers in football, others just fade into oblivion.
Perhaps these people realise that whilst they are at the front of people's minds there's money to be made in a biography. Whereas if they wait 30 years, they might be long forgotten and maybe wouldn't have anything much extra to add anyway.
It's a short career - they're cashing in whilst they can.
2006-09-21 11:05:44 · answer #2 · answered by SL 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Footballers do not have a lifetime career. While they probably do make, and stay millionaires, they loose the limelight. Getting their biography out is just another publicity stunt. Something more to keep their faces in media. And of course, they don't actually write them either.
Getting biographies published is becoming more of a fashion statement with rich and famous, rather than a result of actual public interest in their lives, as it used to be originally.
2006-09-21 11:05:27 · answer #3 · answered by Dolly 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because all the suckers who go and watch them play and make them rich, will make them even richer by buying their Auto/biographies. It is strange also how they are never described as fat cats. That particular patronising insult seems to be directed at business leaders. In the final two thirds of their lives they will probably do nothing, because they haven't any other skills. Wait a minute though, there's coaching, acting, sponsorship, advertising etc.
2006-09-22 02:21:59 · answer #4 · answered by Veritas 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because then can (with help), and they have the ego's to think people will be interested. Autobiographies used to be an insight into a facinating life, now they are about making money whilst it can be made. Even the "high minded" eg out of office politicians are trying to cash in whilst they are remembered. What price John Major's memoirs now?
2006-09-21 13:14:59 · answer #5 · answered by Richard C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ah...agents. Otherwise the players would do what they do best. Kick balls. Agents instill their 'importance', and with the promise of mucho dinero...and the players (bless 'em) go along with it.
It's double whammy - the agents get people to read about footy-boy's short life, and thus make more money.
Dolly is right - it's turned into a surreal 'fashion statement', rather than what it used to mean...a collection of years (and years) of actions that changed politics and serious observations of society and life.
2006-09-21 11:04:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If i was a footballer i would want to write about my life in 3 segments as there is so much to talk about and i would have forgotten most by the time i hit 40 so its fresh in my mind, so i understand why.
2006-09-21 11:07:02 · answer #7 · answered by chopps . 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's easy! It's all about the money. If they write an autobiography after they've had their 15 minutes of fame no-one would want to buy it, so they write it when they're young so that people will buy it!
2006-09-21 11:15:54 · answer #8 · answered by wee gemz 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those rich players are either being pushed by publishers,ego or some sort of financial reason.The main thing is, it shows how low they are educated.
2006-09-21 11:14:53 · answer #9 · answered by jackson-jones a 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To make money. They're all written by ghost writers, anyway. Better question: why is Rooney writing five??
2006-09-21 10:59:05 · answer #10 · answered by Joker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋