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Purchased this given Moore's association with the BBC commentary team, hoping it would give me a better insight to the man and therefore his skewed rationale.

No, sorry.

The man is a fool.

A disappointing simplistic outlook on life.

This book is a resounding call to arms of all Englishmen.

Biased with bias and without trying to prove my point, biased.

He is heard constantly bleating England's woes on national television whilst Butler,Cotter, et al try to maintain composure.

Over the last couple of seasons he has made a conscious, or directed, effort to balance the boat but it never rings true. Having read this I now Know it was directed.

Tough life? Mmm...

Worthy national commentator? No.

Absolutely no.

Never respected him, now not at all.


Buy it if you are English.

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This was bought as a Father's Day present for my Father in Law who is a big rugby fan. Great present

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Clearly this is not the typical sporting biography,nor is he seeking to 'use' the abuse issue to sell the book.
It is a tremendous book.
I guess ,for Brian Moore , it was cathartic.
The last couple of chapters referring to his Daily Telegraph article on Daniel James, and meeting his birth mother, were heart wrenching.
It reads as though he wrote it himself,his earlier biography having been penned by Stephen Jones.
The book does him enormous credit.

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I gave the 4th star for the price of the book, a hardback for eight pounds is a bargain so I felt I had to recognise that. I know nothing about rugby so it was good to have it explained in layman's terms by an expert former player and now a BBC commentator. Moore's legal training shows through in the writing as his story is almost presented in a legal manner, with concise writing and no waffle, and the reader is the judge.

The child abuse sections are bookends to the rest of the story, you read about it at the beginning and end of the book only. Whilst it was useful for him to appear in BBC's Panorama about the subject, both that filmed interview and his writing about it are both again, truncated down to the facts; so this isn't a book to read about how Brian Moore has survived abuse, mainly because sports stars have their sport much in the same vein as Theoren Fleury's Playing With Fire.

So whilst Beware of The Dog is well worth reading, I also feel like I have to go back and get the other ghostwritten first autobiography to see if there's anything that I missed, or that was left out of this book because it was already covered in that one.

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Great book and gives you a very good insight of the man in the scrum, pit bull as usual pulls no punches.