This biography on Geoffrey Boycott, the great English cricketer, reveals intimate and humorous insights into the man who was one of the great faces of cricket. But he wasn't loved by everyone . . .
"He was utterly self-centred, the rudest, most ignorant man on God's earth." (David Brown, former England fast bowler); "In committee, he just controlled his supporters. You couldn't put up anything against him. He would sit at the back of the room, feet up, reading the paper, then put up his arm and sixteen other hands would follow. He ruined Yorkshire cricket." (Brian Close); "It's lucky he wasn't a politician, otherwise he might have blown up the world." (Childhood friend from Fitzwilliam); but there was also "He was a very pleasant little boy, who kept himself to himself. He would not even fight with his brothers." (Alice Harratt, Boycott's aunt); and "Underneath that brusque facade there is a sensitive soul, a soul that wants to be loved but does not really know how to get it." (Simon Hughes).
