title: Football Manager Stole My Life: 20 Years of Beautiful Obsession
author:  Iain Macintosh 
description: <div>&quot;It&rsquo;s the best game I&rsquo;ve ever played &ndash; it is a game, isn&rsquo;t it?&quot; &mdash;Robbie Williams, musician</div>
zlib_text: Fighting for your heart’s desires is always worth the
  hardship.
  After injury forces Brendan Gateman to stop playing pro
  football, he falls back on his physical education and teaching
  degrees and begins coaching high school ball. Settling into a
  new town and hanging with his defensive coordinator, Dan
  Roper, Brendan finally feels like his life is back on track. His
  only regret is that the fear of losing not only his new life but
  
  his family forces him to remain deep in the closet. Still, he
  has two of the three things people always want out of life,
  and that’s enough for him. At least, that’s what he thinks
  until he meets paramedic Randy Coughlan. The out and
  proud man makes Brendan start rethinking his choices.
  When problems in Randy’s life forces the man to make some
  tough choices, will Brendan’s insecurities make him walk
  away? Or will he step up and become the man he never
  thought possible but always wanted to be?
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