Book Club: Out of the Darkness, Matt Piper & Joe Brewin
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
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4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of the Book Club on Football Ramble Presents, Kate Mason is joined by former Leicester City winger Matt Piper to discuss his celebrated autobiography Out of the Darkness, written in collaboration with FourFourTwo's Joe Brewin.
After achieving a boyhood dream of playing for his hometown club, injury forced Matt to retire at just 24. But such was the mental strain Matt endured in the lead up to every match, ending his career was an overwhelming relief. He joins us - alongside Joe - to talk about his early rise and the devastating fall that followed, where the loss of Matt's football earnings, his family and any sort of purpose dragged him to rock bottom. The man who's since opened up his own academy has documented those dark times alongside Joe Brewin and penned a heartfelt and sometimes harrowing piece of football nonfiction – one which has been longlisted for this year's William Hill Sports Book Of The Year!
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| 0:42.0 | More on that later in the episode. |
| 0:46.0 | Hi everyone Kate Mason here just a quick note that this episode of the book club features |
| 0:51.0 | discussions around mental health and attempted suicide |
| 0:54.8 | which some listeners may find upsetting. |
| 0:59.7 | I was absolutely buzzing when the surgeon said I flew to Denver Colorado and when he said |
| 1:05.1 | you can't play professional sport with that knee anymore inside I was so excited I was I was like thank God that is all over. |
| 1:14.4 | Hello and welcome to the book club with me Kate Mason this week for book club we've been |
| 1:21.7 | reading another classic release just this year |
| 1:24.1 | one that charts what can happen when one of the finest young players of his generation |
| 1:27.8 | finds himself unable to play the game he loves so much what it means when your body |
| 1:32.3 | gives up on you and retirement comes very young indeed |
| 1:35.4 | and the future starts to look impossible. Our book has been long listed for this year's |
| 1:40.1 | William Hill Sports Book of the Year. It is Out of the Darkness by Matt Piper with Joe Bruin. |
| 1:46.0 | Now how about this one for the video scrapbook? |
| 1:49.0 | The Filbert Street Hero was needed and upstepped Matt Piper. |
| 1:55.0 | Now this was his first goal for the club. |
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