A great new book on Town legend Kevin Beattie is about to be published ...

Foreword by Sir Bobby Robson

"The frank, funny yet harrowingly poignant story of Kevin Beattie, the first PFA young footballer of the year and a man tipped by Sir Alf Ramsey to win over 100 caps for his country. A man who Sir Bobby Robson says is the best footballer that he has ever worked with. A man who was courted by Bill Shankly and Don Revie and who seemed destined for football greatness until injury wrecked his career.

As a result, he was so down on his luck that by by the age of 30 was picking up cigarette butts off the street and contemplating suicide saying: 'I would have tied a hose to my exhaust pipe but I even had my car re-possessed.' Where did it all go wrong ? How has he coped since ?"

Find out at Cult Figure Publishing. The only place where this book is available.

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Town slipped to their first home defeat against Leciester City for 19 years, in a very poor display which saw us concede two goals from corners, almost carbon copies of each other. To compound the misery, midfield hopeful Owen Garvan was dismissed for a ridiculous two footed challenge in the second half.

What a miserable afternoon. Leicester are meant to be easy to beat, aren't they? Well they certainly should have been, after showing no real class in this match I saw nothing to change my mind on that. At least they had some fight, something that pretty much all of our lot lacked this afternoon.

Their were exceptions, and most of them started the game with a bit of spark at least. But heads really dropped as the match wore on - and it did wear on - and we sunk deeper and made more and more mistakes. Jaime Peters looked like a man on a mission, and stood out as a player with commitment and class, once again racing down the right time after time. He could in fact have opened the scoring off a first time effort in the first half hour, but for a smart save from Foxes goalie Henderson.

Others had their moments, Dan Harding was pretty solid mopping up round the back, and continues to be one of the better and more consistent performers. Sylvain Legwinski seemed to be up for it at the start, but was perhaps one of the guilty party at the back for being asleep for at least the first goal which came from a poorly defended corner.

The Garvan challenge happened after about an hour when we were already well beaten even thought the game was still only at one nil. He'd already picked up a silly yellow in the first few minutes after the restart, and he could only have been surprised that the ref only gave a second yellow and not stright red, after his dangerous lunge at a Leicester player, both feet first and flying in horizontally. A proper potential leg-breaker, luckilly not. I'd like to have heard what Jim said about that one.

The second goal was as bad as the first, Town not having learned their lesson allowed the same player to steam through at a corner to head home amongst three static defenders.

This was a real low point in the season so far, we seemed to lack any sort of game plan and faded fast when up against it. I'll give them the first 25 minutes, we made chances but couldn't convert as usual, but not even the injury and suspension situation was excuse enough for this one.