 | ABER'S GONNAE GET YE!
Order now for Wednesday 22nd April delivery. In-store on Tuesday 21st April
Football legend Billy Abercromby has been to Hell and back from Scottish Cup winner to alcoholic and battling back again to sobriety and a new life. For the first time, the man known to fans as Aber tells this incredible
story in his autobiography, published on Tuesday, April 21.
The book Aber's Gonnae Get Ye! tells how in his prime, he took on the cream of European football playing against the likes of Platini, Cruyff, Gullitt, Dalglish and Souness.
But his professional career almost came to an end before it started after being signed for St Mirren by Alex Ferguson in June, 1975. Immediately after, the 17-year-old Billy went on an ten-week, having-a-good-time holiday in Great Yarmouth and didn¹t turn up at Love Street for training until after the season had started. Billy was one of the first players to feel the full force of Fergie's famous "hairdryer" treatment.
And with the St Mirren fans' chant of "Aber¹s Gonnae Get Ye" ringing in his ears, the football hard man who was infamously sent off three times in one game - experienced the ultimate joy of leading the Saints to Scottish Cup glory. But within months, he found himself on a downward spiral into the dark, dark pit of alcoholism.
He fell as far as you could go. Spending his days drinking bottles of sherry with his booze buddies by a canal, Billy was given one final stark message from doctors as he lay in a hospital bed you're one more bevvy session
from the grave. From that moment, Billy made himself a promise he would beat the booze and
with the same fighting spirit, courage and determination that made him the scourge of opponents on the football field, he is winning that fight. The wicked grin, the laugh-a-minute patter and the mischievous look in his eyes
have returned.
This is an amazing and heart-warming story that reveals the secrets of what goes on behind the door of a football dressing room, a brutally honest insight into one man's battle with the demon drink and an uplifting
conclusion that tells us Billy Abercromby has made the biggest comeback of his life.
Aber's Gonnae Get Ye? You better believe it!
Price: £9.99
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|  | LOVE STREET - THE FINAL CHAPTER
176 pages, A4, full colour - featuring every first team match played at Love Street during the last ever full season of 2007/08 and the matches played in season 2008/09 up to, and including the emotional final match on January 3rd against Motherwell.
The book also includes in glorious full colour the rise of the new stadium on Greenhill Road from a muddy field in December 2007 right through to the opening match against Kilmarnock on January 31st 2009.
Featuring 'Love Street Memories' from over 70 Saints' supporters from Copenhagen to Sydney, Singapore to Seattle, aged 13-79. Also feature exclusive contributions from:
Sir Alex Ferguson, Steve Clarke, Tony Fitzpatrick, John Hughes, Mixu Paatelainen, Chick Young, Christopher Brookmyre, Willie Young, and the directors, management and players of St Mirren FC. Also features a world exclusive as the infamous Paisley Panda at long last lifts the lid on his tales of rascal mascotry at Love Street!
WAS £15.99
Price: £10.00
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