Ex-Manchester United party boy Lee Sharpe was responsible for the publishing event of the day back in 2005 when he released his autobiography 'My Idea of Fun'.
Whereas other footballers have detailed their beer-drinking excesses in a confessional tone, Lee eschews all this introspection.
He figures that while he liked to skull the odd beer and do the odd spliff, his only real problem was that managers didn't understand him. Neither Alex Ferguson and George Graham (both austere Scotsmen) were sensitive to Lee's desires as far as the spliff-smoking and the beer-swilling was concerned.
He scored 36 goals in eight seasons at United, winning three League titles.
His most famous off-field moment at Manchester United was when he was getting ready to hit the town with the young lad he was busily trying to corrupt, young Giggsy, and Alex Ferguson knocked in and gave all his non-employees a clip on the ear and gave his two footballers the bollocking to end all bollockings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxoZF3DpLdM
After his career fizzled out due to persistent injuries, Lee retained a the public eye thanks to the sterling work of some reality TV show producers. He was a big hit on Celebrity Love Island, where he succeeded in scoring Abi Titmuss.
He expresses no regret for any of these misadventures or how his career turned out. His position is, as per the book's title, it was all just japes.
He was recently part of a campaign on the London underground, advertising a product called Nourkrin, which combats baldness. He is described in the campaign as 'Lee Sharpe, of Celebrity Love Island fame'.
