New book and Leicestershire tour from Gary Mills

[MMFB]

Former Foxes captain Gary Mills has brought his new autobiography out, Young Millsy, available for pre-order ahead of its September 9th release. Details here https://www.morganlawrence.co.uk/product/young-millsy/

 

And...

 

Foxes duo Gary Mills and Barrie Pierpoint are teaming up for Leicestershire roadshow kicking off this Autumn!

 

“This is an interactive event not to be missed,” said Gary.

“Whether you’re a fan of Leicester, Forest or football in general, we’ll be taking questions from the audience on a host of events throughout mine and Barrie’s career.

“Both on and off the pitch, I’ve been blessed to have worked with some amazing people, so whether it’s the madness of Clough or the principles of Little you’d like to hear more on, we’re here to give you the answers and anecdotes behind it all."

 

“We’re delighted to be taking our stories on the road,” said Pierpoint.

“What we have here is a chance for fans to relive a moment in time, a journey which chronicles many memorable 90s moments, from both a footballing point of view and the business of football.

“But this won’t be dull history tour, expect plenty of laughs, stories from the dressing room and backstage banter. Nothing is off limits, and I’ll even bring a few Pierpoint out posters along for fans to hold up like old times!”

 

Tickets and details below:

 

https://www.morganlawrence.co.uk/events/

 

[MPH]

 

interesting combination of people…

[VLC86]

An evening not to be missed indeed.

[King of Gipsy Lane]

Wow what a pairing , not sure if that interests me much, Martin O’Neill has plenty to say about Pierpoint 

[Guest worth_the_wait]

5 hours ago, King of Gipsy Lane said:

Martin O’Neill has plenty to say about Pierpoint 

And in a recent Fox Fanzine interview, Mr PierPoint had quite a bit to say about Mr O'Neill.

 

Suffice to say,  that there are 2 sides to most debates ... and in the past, we only really got to.hear Martin O'Neill's version.

 

[King of Gipsy Lane]

10 minutes ago, worth_the_wait said:

And in a recent Fox Fanzine interview, Mr PierPoint had quite a bit to say about Mr O'Neill.

 

Suffice to say,  that there are 2 sides to most debates ... and in the past, we only really got to.hear Martin O'Neill's version.

 

Seeing how it played out and what they both went onto Achieve I know who I believe, nothing Pierpoint can show me or tell me will lead me to think he was a success at our club 👍👍

[Paninistickers]

I'm always a bit baffled how fairly obscure footballers make any 'pound notes' from writing a book worth bothering with

 

Surely - at best - they'd shift 500 copies at a tenner a pop. After deducting print and distribution costs, it can't be much more than a couple of grand,  pre tax. And all for a month or two's worth of sat in front of a laptop tapping away 

 

 

[tom27111]

10 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

I'm always a bit baffled how fairly obscure footballers make any 'pound notes' from writing a book worth bothering with

 

Surely - at best - they'd shift 500 copies at a tenner a pop. After deducting print and distribution costs, it can't be much more than a couple of grand,  pre tax. And all for a month or two's worth of sat in front of a laptop tapping away 

 

 

 

I imagine Mills' book will focus mainly on his time with Forest. 

 

You might be of the opinion that he's obscure, but he was a European Cup winner at a very young age in that Forest side.

 

One of my favourite players in the dark days under Pleat and just beyond.

 

A real pro.

 

You're right in the sense that I don't see him shifting many books though.

 

I guess that's not his problem, the publisher will have already paid him a significant amount of money.

 

Edit...he would have sat down and told a few anecdotes to a local journalist, who would have to go to the trouble of ghost writing it for him.

Edited 26 August 2021 by tom27111

[Phil Bowman]

28 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

I'm always a bit baffled how fairly obscure footballers make any 'pound notes' from writing a book worth bothering with

 

Surely - at best - they'd shift 500 copies at a tenner a pop. After deducting print and distribution costs, it can't be much more than a couple of grand,  pre tax. And all for a month or two's worth of sat in front of a laptop tapping away 

 

 

He won’t have written it himself. At least I’d be amazed if he did.

Also - are you saying Gary Mills is an obscure footballer? He must have played a couple of hundred games for us. And once won a cup of some sort with another team, I believe.

[Guest Lako42]

Gary Mills was my 1st football favourite and I was so young I couldn't really say he was any good. 

[Guest Electric Yetis]

Seemed to score a penalty every match in the season I started going regularly.

 

One step run up too.

[Guest worth_the_wait]

1 hour ago, King of Gipsy Lane said:

Seeing how it played out and what they both went onto Achieve I know who I believe, nothing Pierpoint can show me or tell me will lead me to think he was a success at our club 👍👍

The full interview is in the March 2021 edition of The Fox March.  

 

It really is an interesting read, and well worth trying to get hold of a copy.    There clearly was another side to the story that got put out.

 

Martin O'Neill was a great football manager for us, but you could tell from interviews that he held grudges against anyone he didn't like.   If you so much as crossed him once, that was it.    A small % of the City fans told him to f*** off at the Sheff Utd match ... and he held that against us all, for the whole time he was at the club.   Make no mistake about that, he held grudges ... and admitted as much in a memorable interview.

 

I'm not making out that Pierpoint was some hard done by poor little boy.   But I don't think the abuse he got was justified, when you look at it with a calm mind ... now everyone's moved on.

[SkidsFox]

2 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

I'm always a bit baffled how fairly obscure footballers make any 'pound notes' from writing a book worth bothering with

 

Surely - at best - they'd shift 500 copies at a tenner a pop. After deducting print and distribution costs, it can't be much more than a couple of grand,  pre tax. And all for a month or two's worth of sat in front of a laptop tapping away 

 

 

The event (at various venues) costs 29.50. So they should be earning a few hundred per night if it's close to a sellout. Not much compared to a footballers wage at the top level, but a good earner by most people's standards.

[King of Gipsy Lane]

46 minutes ago, worth_the_wait said:

The full interview is in the March 2021 edition of The Fox March.  

 

It really is an interesting read, and well worth trying to get hold of a copy.    There clearly was another side to the story that got put out.

 

Martin O'Neill was a great football manager for us, but you could tell from interviews that he held grudges against anyone he didn't like.   If you so much as crossed him once, that was it.    A small % of the City fans told him to f*** off at the Sheff Utd match ... and he held that against us all, for the whole time he was at the club.   Make no mistake about that, he held grudges ... and admitted as much in a memorable interview.

 

I'm not making out that Pierpoint was some hard done by poor little boy.   But I don't think the abuse he got was justified, when you look at it with a calm mind ... now everyone's moved on.

That’s the point I haven’t moved on my from my thoughts and feelings round his time with us and never will the club has and thank god we had a saviour but that period will always haunt me owing to what it potentially could have done to the club 

 

I agree on MON he seemed a very deep thinker and probably a little weirdly intense 

[David Hankey]

And now manager of Corby Town FC.

[LanguedocFox]

12 hours ago, Phil Bowman said:

He won’t have written it himself. At least I’d be amazed if he did.

Also - are you saying Gary Mills is an obscure footballer? He must have played a couple of hundred games for us. And once won a cup of some sort with another team, I believe.

You are probably referring to the European Cup that Nottingham Forest won. You probably wouldn’t have heard about that because their fans don’t like to talk about it.

[Phil Bowman]

12 hours ago, worth_the_wait said:

A small % of the City fans told him to f*** off at the Sheff Utd match

It wasn’t that small.

 

In my list of examples of excruciatingly appalling ‘support’ by Leicester fans I think this is beaten only by (probably the same people) telling Jimmy Willis to f**k off while he was actually on the pitch playing for Leicester.

[Phil Bowman]

48 minutes ago, LanguedocFox said:

You are probably referring to the European Cup that Nottingham Forest won. You probably wouldn’t have heard about that because their fans don’t like to talk about it.

I have to say, since 2016 I’ve become a lot more understanding of them doing this. I’m pretty sure we’ll still be talking about 2016 in forty years, and we won‘t care a jot if people laugh at us for living in the past!

[davieG]

He played for quite a lot of teams and manged a fair few as well and had some reasonable success in the lower leagues.

 

Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1978–1982	Nottingham Forest	58	(8)
1982–1983	Seattle Sounders	34	(5)
1982–1983	→ Derby County (loan)	18	(2)
1983–1987	Nottingham Forest	79	(4)
1987–1989	Notts County	75	(8)
1989–1994	Leicester City	200	(15)
1994–1996	Notts County	47	(0)
1996–1998	Grantham Town	66	(3)
1998	Gresley Rovers	7	(0)
1998–2000	King's Lynn	67	(3)
2000–2001	Boston United	8	(0)
2001–2002	Tamworth	41	(2)
2005	Glapwell
2005–2007	Alfreton Town	24	(0)
2007–2010	Tamworth	3	(0)
Total		727	(50)
National team
	England schools
1978–1979	England U18	2	(0)
1981	England U21	2	(0)
Teams managed
1996–1998	Grantham Town
1998–2000	King's Lynn
2001–2002	Tamworth
2004	Notts County
2005–2007	Alfreton Town
2007–2010	Tamworth
2010–2013	York City
2013–2015	Gateshead
2015–2016	Wrexham
2016–2017	York City
2020–	Corby Town

[Phil Bowman]

14 hours ago, Lako42 said:

Gary Mills was my 1st football favourite and I was so young I couldn't really say he was any good. 

I’d say you made a good choice. He was quite good.

And by the standards of a lot of the teams he played in for us he was flipping brilliant!

[MMFB]

More on the tour and Mills' book in the Mercury today: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/leicester-mercury/20210827/281852941661404