Dimensions
153 x 234 x 18mm
In an age when sportsmen have perfected the art of saying nothing and suppressing any trace of personality, Shane 'Cake' Curran is a beacon of light: passionate, outspoken, utterly himself. From the moment when, in the 1989 Connacht minor final, he controversially poached a penalty kick a teammate had lined up, he has brought mayhem and joy to every arena in which he has performed. Now, he brings that same fearlessness to his autobiography - one of the most distinctive Irish sporting memoirs ever published.
Cake is the story of a Castlerea lad who made it as a swashbuckling two-code goalkeeper - for Roscommon in Gaelic football and for Athlone Town in soccer - and crowned his career with an All-Ireland club championship title for St Brigid's in 2013. It is also the story of an ambitious young businessman whose entrepreneurial streak was evident from the age of 13, when he took a job selling shoes; who designed and marketed a new kicking tee for goalkeepers; and who now runs a successful global flood-defence business - a fitting line of work for a goalkeeper.
Brave, honest and hilarious, and full of entertaining stories and challenging observations on the state of the GAA and the world, Cake tells the story of an Irish sportsman who has lived the dream in his own utterly distinctive way.
