Peter Crouch

Peter Crouch played international football for England before writing books that combine professional experience with comic observation about the modern game. I, Robot: How to Be a Footballer 2, published by Ebury Press in 2019, follows his bestselling How to Be a Footballer. Written with journalist Tom Fordyce, the book looks at managers, agents, transfers, training, dressing-room habits, substitutes, and the technologies increasingly used around elite sport. Crouch’s long career as a striker supplies the anecdotes, while Fordyce’s credited collaboration helps shape them into a connected narrative. The title plays on the idea that footballers are expected to perform like optimized machines, but the book emphasizes personality, uncertainty, and the peculiar routines surrounding competition. It is a humorous sports memoir rather than a technical manual or science-fiction work. I, Robot: How to Be a Footballer 2 continues Crouch’s distinctive authorial voice by treating football culture from the perspective of someone who experienced its expectations at club and international level.