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Playing God: The Rise and Fall of Gary Ablett

Garry Linnell

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Description:There had been many demons in Gary Ablett’s life but none had haunted his to the point of depression more than fame…’Gary Ablett was a young bloke from country Victoria who left school at fifteen and started picking up work as a brickie’s labourer. He had a reputation for being wild and a gift for football. His almost freakish skills and ability to soar higher than anyone else saw him develop a cult following that spanned the nation. Ablett became one of the biggest names in Australian sport and fans dubbed him ‘God’. It should have been the perfect fairytale life … country boy makes good. But this life was anything but perfect.Ablett’s meteoric rise was followed by an inevitable fall from grace as he failed to find anything he was better at than football. Most athletes have some feeling of let-down at the end of their sporting career, but not all athletes fill the void with drugs and alcohol. Ablett did. But he didn’t always do it alone. When a young woman died in room 1265 of the Melbourne Park Hyatt Hotel after a five-day drug and alcohol binge with Ablett, his fall was complete.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Playing God: The Rise and Fall of Gary Ablett. To get started finding Playing God: The Rise and Fall of Gary Ablett, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 343

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers

Release: 2004

ISBN: 0732274494

Description: There had been many demons in Gary Ablett’s life but none had haunted his to the point of depression more than fame…’Gary Ablett was a young bloke from country Victoria who left school at fifteen and started picking up work as a brickie’s labourer. He had a reputation for being wild and a gift for football. His almost freakish skills and ability to soar higher than anyone else saw him develop a cult following that spanned the nation. Ablett became one of the biggest names in Australian sport and fans dubbed him ‘God’. It should have been the perfect fairytale life … country boy makes good. But this life was anything but perfect.Ablett’s meteoric rise was followed by an inevitable fall from grace as he failed to find anything he was better at than football. Most athletes have some feeling of let-down at the end of their sporting career, but not all athletes fill the void with drugs and alcohol. Ablett did. But he didn’t always do it alone. When a young woman died in room 1265 of the Melbourne Park Hyatt Hotel after a five-day drug and alcohol binge with Ablett, his fall was complete.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Playing God: The Rise and Fall of Gary Ablett. To get started finding Playing God: The Rise and Fall of Gary Ablett, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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