Former Manchester United defender Gary Pallister insists Erik ten Hag's side can qualify for next season's Champions League - but only if they fix three key issues.
30.09.2023 - 12:51 / nypost.com
“Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the ’80s” (Flatiron Books) delves into the childhood that turned him into the kook he is today. With such a successful stand-up career, why did you decide to write a book? It’s something I always wanted to do. Growing up, I was keeping track of stories and sort of delusionally thought maybe one day I’ll write a book.
First it was about my rise to stardom as a basketball player [laughs], and then about football or comedy, but I kept track of things. I love telling childhood stories because they’re laughable and absurd and more painful but you have some distance, too. By definition you’ve survived your childhood stories so people feel comfortable laughing at them, which is really important.
In the introduction you say the worldview you learned in your childhood home is a reason you ended up moving back in your 40s while depressed? There were two things going on there. Basically, I was an only child since my brothers were so much older than me. There was a lot of loneliness and not much attention paid to me.
I only saw my father for a few hours on Sundays. We were also always worried about money and making ends meet, so I was convinced only rich people were happy. I was also guided sort of obsessively by ethics and morality that I learned in Hebrew school and from my father’s Old Testament interpretation of spirituality and religion, so basically I didn’t like myself and didn’t believe in myself.
It was partly chemical, but I also didn’t get the idea — other than from Mr. Rogers — that just being myself was something worth being. Any kind of specialness that I had came from doing something other people approved of, like doing well in school or at basketball, so I was always looking for outside
.Former Manchester United defender Gary Pallister insists Erik ten Hag's side can qualify for next season's Champions League - but only if they fix three key issues.
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