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This morning I went to Amazon and purchased Robbie Savage's Autobiography, it cost me £11.99 and I feel so dirty. It has been despatched and shall be with me tomorrow morning, I will start reading it tomorrow sometime and I will keep you informed of my findings.

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This morning I went to Amazon and purchased Robbie Savage's Autobiography, it cost me £11.99 and I feel so dirty. It has been despatched and shall be with me tomorrow morning, I will start reading it tomorrow sometime and I will keep you informed of my findings.

I went to Amazon? Have they got real shops in the high street now then.

Feckin Savage hypocrite.

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I've got a load of footballers autobiographies all of which are pretty dull, I reckon this will have a few "entertaining" stories inside, apparently he is very open in the book and even talks about his wages, 23k I think he was on when we were in the Premiership.

I'm kinda looking forward to seeing what he has to say, although I can guarentee it will not alter my opinion that the media whore should of retired a couple of seasons ago. Last season Savage had many fans, you only have to look across the forums to see that alot of swung over to the he shouldn't be in the team side.

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Robbies 'revelations'

Robbie Savage has told how he fantasised about deliberately crashing his Porsche into a tree at high speed as his football world collapsed.

The Mirror columnist was wracked by thoughts of self-harming after a bust-up with his then-Derby boss Paul Jewell two years ago.

Savage, whose frank autobiography is being serialised in the Daily Mirror this week, said: "I was ready to do something really stupid.

"Not suicide, because that is for cowards, but something very close and very crazy.

"I was planning to take the car out and smash it into a tree. Or go out and bang my head into a wall again and again. Just ending all the pain.

"Football is my life and it was being taken away from me. So I decided I would end my career on my own terms, by injuring myself so I couldn't play any more.

"In the end I went to one of my closest friends and told him what I was planning. Then I went to the doctor, who put me on medication for depression."

Robbie, whose autobiography is released on August 5, told how wife Sarah threatened to leave him unless he snapped out of his misery.

He said: "I'd become a recluse. I was mentally and physically in a different world. I felt I’d rather have not been here.

"I would come home here and not speak. When I did I would snap at my wife. I'd bite her head off.

"I’d take it out on the kids – not violently, obviously, but just refusing to play with them. They wanted to play football but I didn't want to know. I would sit on my own in another room, not moving. Just watching football on TV and thinking, 'That should be me'.

"I wouldn't speak to my friends. I was in my own little shell. I was hopeless.

"I was becoming more and more paranoid. I wouldn’t eat or drink at the club. I was going so crazy that I began imagining things that were straight out of a cheap thriller. What if someone put drugs into my food so it would be easy to sack me? That’s how bad it got. It was insane.

"My wife told me many times that she would leave me unless I sorted myself out. She said, 'I can’t live with you like this’. She wanted to take the kids and go back to live with her mother and father.

"And I honestly didn’t care. I said, ‘Go, I’m not bothered’. I would have lost everything for my own ego and stupidity."

Robbie admits that as he tackled his personal demons he even missed the abuse he commonly gets from rival fans.

He said: "Instead of calling me a w****r people came up and asked, 'Are you still playing?' Or 'Have you retired?'

"To go from the man who everyone loved to hate to the man nobody gave a toss about was hard to take."

Plagued by blinding headaches and severe chest pains, Robbie finally went to a private doctor where he received counselling and medication for depression and stress.

He admits: "I took pills but what really lifted me out of it was pure luck. I don't harbour any grudge against Paul Jewell, because I let him down on the pitch after he paid all that money for me. But having Nigel Clough come in was like a rebirth for me."

Robbie says he is revealing his darkest moments now "not to sell my book but to make people aware that anyone can suffer from depression."

He said: "When I used to hear my mate Stan Collymore talk about depression, I’d think ‘How can he be depressed in £20,000 a week?’ But when your mind is in that state you don’t care what you do.

"I was really at the lowest ebb of my life. It was horrible and it opens the door to cowardly things."

Robbie says he would normally have turned to his dad Colin with his problems - but the former sales executive is suffering from the degenerative brain condition Pick's Disease, which has symptoms like those of Alzheimer's.

He admitted: "It is a terrible illness and it can be hereditary. The doctors say I could have tests for it.

"But after what I've put my family through I would rather not know."

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At the start of the 2007/08 season I realised how far I’d fallen when my own chairman wanted me out of Derby... and into the jungle!

We played Southampton and I was absolutely dreadful. I had no confidence; I was getting booed every time I touched the ball. It was my last game under Paul Jewell.

“If you can find anywhere to go, go,†he told me. “People tell me your legs have gone.â€Â

They didn’t care where I went as long as Robbie Savage cleared off as quickly and quietly as possible. There was one problem. Nobody would have me. No one wanted to touch me with a barge pole.

My agent George Urquhart spelled it out. He said to me, “Sav, no one wants to touch you. You can’t get near anybody any more. You’re not the player you were. The game is all about high energy and high intensity, and no one wants to touch you. Nobody in the Championship, nobody in League one, nobody in League Two.â€Â

Then Adam Pearson called me into his office and said, “Ant and Dec are your mates, aren’t they?â€Â

“Well, I know them,†I admitted. “Why don’t you give them a ring and try to get into the jungle? You’ve tried everywhere else, and no one will take you. Give them a call.â€Â

I sat there and looked at him in amazement. I was a *professional footballer, earning 23 grand a week at Derby, and the chairman was telling me to get on a reality TV show. What about playing football? The last thing on my mind was a trip into the jungle with Ant and Dec on I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

No bushtucker trials and eating bugs for me, thanks. I politely rejected the *chairman’s suggestion and went back to training with the kids instead. I got my head down, worked hard and saw my career revived under Nigel Clough. I’m the club captain and was voted player of the year last season. It’s a long way from the jungle.

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My copy has just arrived, first thoughts is it's not very thick unlike Savage. Few pics of him as a kid (looked like a girl then aswell), few of the well publicised pics aswell so nowt new there. I'l start reading it at some point today.

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savage would be one of the most liley candidates for depression i imagine, as in most footbllers. He has experienced what it's like to be at the top of the game and for it all to come crashing down must have been a shock to the system, to me jewell and pearson didn't help him whatsoever in saying do you want to go into the jungle, i mean seriously, thank god they are gone, i now feel a bit more sympethetic to savage tbh, and i may even buy it because it seems like a good read. I thought it would be another autobiography which has no substance and a grain of truth to it.

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savage would be one of the most liley candidates for depression i imagine, as in most footbllers. He has experienced what it's like to be at the top of the game and for it all to come crashing down must have been a shock to the system, to me jewell and pearson didn't help him whatsoever in saying do you want to go into the jungle, i mean seriously, thank god they are gone, i now feel a bit more sympethetic to savage tbh, and i may even buy it because it seems like a good read. I thought it would be another autobiography which has no substance and a grain of truth to it.

I do think Jewell and Pearson have alot to answer for with the players that they sold, they never should of sold Earnshaw,Oakley and Dave Jones to name a few.

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