![]() ![]() ![]() "Aside of my eldest son being born, and seeing Oasis's second-ever gig, all of the 1990s, ten years of my life, was a complete washout." "I hated the 1990s," Lake once told The Independent newspaper. He played only four more matches for the club thereafter, suffering the same injury on two more occasions before announcing his retirement in January 1996. The midfielder's career was effectively over aged just 21 when he ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Aston Villa on September 5, 1990. And as Andy Greeves discovers, Lake's story is now set to be told on the big screen.Īs I write this article in December 2014, former Manchester City player Paul Lake is recovering from yet another operation. In a saturated market of largely uninspiring and clichéd football autobiographies, Paul Lake's 2011 effort I'm Not Really Here stood out as one of the most original of its kind. ![]()
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