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Leather Soul: A Half-back Flanker's Rhythm and Blues
Leather Soul: A Half-back Flanker's Rhythm and Blues
Leather Soul: A Half-back Flanker's Rhythm and Blues
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Leather Soul: A Half-back Flanker's Rhythm and Blues

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Bob Murphy has never been your average footballer. Music buff, Age columnist and Winnebago driver, he is as comfortable in the corner of a café or grungy pub as he is in the locker room.

Murphy takes us inside his 17-year career, including three years as Bulldogs captain, exploring the people and places that shaped him: from kicking a tattered football around as a kid in Warragul to coaching the Community Cup with Paul Kelly, and to two season-ending ACL ruptures.

How did the country kid with a gypsy’s heart become an All-Australian captain? What’s it like to have to watch from the sidelines as your club wins the grand final for the first time in 62 years? How does it feel to realise you can no longer do the things that made you great?

The celebrated Australian football bard Martin Flanagan has long insisted Bob Murphy has a book in him like no footballer has written. Leather Soul proves him right.

‘We are indebted to him for making us believe in the game again.’ —Gerard Whateley

‘This isn’t your typical footy book.’—Michael Rowland, ABC News Breakfast presenter

‘[An] honest, moving and brutally self-aware account …’––Bill Perrett, The Sydney Morning Herald

Leather Soul paints a poignant picture of a man struggling to overcome the enormity of missing out on the game of his life.’––Kate O’Halloran, The Guardian

‘Bob Murphy’s got a great story to tell, and he does it pretty damn well. He was an exceptional footballer. Lucky lad, he’s an exceptional writer too. Leather Soul is … superb.’ —Paul Amy, Leader Newspaper and Inside Football

‘There is only one Bob Murphy.’ —Martin Flanagan
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 2, 2019
ISBN9781743820568
Leather Soul: A Half-back Flanker's Rhythm and Blues
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Bob Murphy

Bob Murphy played for the Western Bulldogs for 17 years and was their captain from 2015 to 2017. In 2015 Murphy was named captain of the year at the AFL Players Association awards and was also captain of the All-Australian team. The following year, the Bulldogs won their first premiership in 62 years. Murphy has written regularly for The Age, and his first book was Murphy’s Lore.

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