Dimensions
152 x 230 x 26mm
In the tough, adrenaline-fueled world of Australian Football, Dean Cox is a legend.
In 2014, the big man from the Dampier Archipelago played his 15th season of AFL, having played more games for the West Coast Eagles than any other man.
To fans, Coxy was - and always will be - the Iron Eagle. Iron Eagle is Dean Cox's incredible and inspiring autobiography - a no-holds-barred chronicle of a wild childhood in the Pilbara that evolved into a glorious career in the AFL and placed him front-and-centre in one of Australian sport's most amazing rise-and-fall stories. Tough, loyal, relentless and gifted, the two-metre-tall, seemingly indestructible Eagles ruckman rose from his humble beginnings to fuel the fast and unlikely rise of Western Australia's first team in the AFL and became a lynch-pin in the Eagle's famous 2006 premiership, a one-point win over Sydney.
With unflinching honesty, Cox's autobiography Iron Eagle takes us inside West Coast's glory years - the big games, magic moments and epic battles, including the thrilling clashes with Sydney where just 13 points separated the sides over six amazing games - and also lifts the lid on the off-field scandals that left the Eagles and their fans stranded in a dirty world of drugs, death and heartbreak.
Bullishly upfront and admirably candid, full of up-close revelations and earthy humour and tall-but-true tales, Dean Cox's Iron Eagle is the uplifting tale of a bush kid with a gift, an Eagle who dared to dream, and a big man who flew into the record books and became an AFL legend.
