'Moving to London would be like moving to Timbuktu. Now if I hear a posh accent, I don't judge the person at all.' Andy Farrell tells how Wigan made him

"The sports autobiography is a strange beast."

"For one thing, it's not completely "auto"."

"Instead they'll have undergone a series of interviews which provide the raw material transformed into the finished product by a ghost writer."

Sports autobiographies often result from collaborative processes rather than solitary composition. The named subject frequently does not sit at a keyboard to craft the book. Interview sessions commonly supply raw material that professional ghostwriters shape and organize into the final book. Ghostwriters can transform spoken recollections into coherent narrative, influencing tone, phrasing, and emphasis. The finished book may therefore reflect a blend of the named subject's experiences and the ghostwriter's linguistic choices. Separate promotional note: Focail and Conundrum offers daily word puzzles designed to test vocabulary and lateral thinking skills.

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