Bobby Moore

Excellent

Jon Wise, 5 stars, Weekend Sport

Dickinson makes Moore sound more human… One suspects this excellent biography comes close to describing the real Moore

UK Press Syndication

Absorbing

Spectator

Full marks to Matt Dickinson

Steven Howard, Sun

Brilliant

Oliver Holt, Daily Mirror

Outstanding

UK Press Syndication

Dickinson manages to bring balance to this incredibly well-researched book

4 stars, FourFourTwo

The strength of the book lies in the way Dickinson has been able to go beyond football and find Moore’s real character… Dickinson’s achievement has been to honour the memory of Moore while also allowing us to understand that he was far from perfect

Mark Segal, When Saturday Comes

Devastating. No ghosted autobiography can match the nuanced insight of the latest book on Bobby Moore, a hero flawed by alcohol

Ian Herbert, Independent

Dickinson is tender to the memory of the Essex lad who, for a breathtaking instant, was glorious

Ain Finlayson and Kate Saunders, Saga Magazine

This should be essential, sobering reading for anyone who cares about West Ham, England or English football

Julian Shea, Metro

Matt's work is the most impressive West Ham book of the year, a genuine and sincere attempt to get to the root of the man. It is an excellent, thought-provoking book

Knees Up Mother Brown

A compelling and complete account

Sport

Bobby Moore will rightly be forever remembered as the champion of his era, the most serenely masterful footballer ever to have hailed from these shores; "The Man in Full", not shying away from human fallacies, serves as a reminder that he was the same as every one of us

Jack Gaughan, Mail Online

Well-researched and written, this book brings us the real Bobby Moore

Matthew Syed, The Times

We know this story, but it's still a page-turner

Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail

A tragic tale, admirably researched and poignantly told

Nick Pitt, Sunday Times

It’s an immaculately researched voyage of discovery into a footballing enigma. We’ll never know the man in full, but this comes close

Ben East, Metro

In The Man in Full, acclaimed football writer Matt Dickinson traces the journey of this Essex boy, peeling away the layers of legend and looking at Moore’s life from all sides – in triumph, in failure, in full

Bert Wright, Nudge

Outstanding... this excellent biography comes very close to describing the real Bobby Moore

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