Malthouse: A Football Life by Christi Malthouse

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has creasing at top edge. Interior and binding are still excellent.

This is an intimate, inspirational biography about Australian Football's greatest coach of the modern era, written by his daughter.

Mick Malthouse, a tenacious, hard-hitting defender in Australian Football, racked up 174 senior games for St Kilda and Richmond, including a Grand Final victory with the Tigers in 1980 and eight finals appearances in all. But it was as a coach of genius that Malthouse fired the imagination of the football world.

After cutting his teeth at Footscray, twice he took teams from the bottom of the ladder to Premiership glory -- first West Coast, then Collingwood. A staggering eight grand final appearances and 50 finals mark an extraordinary record.

Malthouse never made excuses for himself and was uncompromising with his players. Some fell by the wayside but most prospered and it was as a team builder and canny tactician that he shone. He soon became a colourful figure in the media, playing that game to his club's advantage, but for all his antics, he remained a devoted family man and loyal mate to a legion of friends.

An intimate, inspirational biography about Australian Football's greatest coach of the modern era, written by his daughter. (book flap)