retire from television presenting after the Euro 2004 football championships. Soon afterwards the BBC announced that Lynam would present a new weekly radio programme, Des Meets... , on BBC Radio Five Live from August 2004. Like others read this book, took only a day and half. Through the first half of it we were given an insight into the ladies and women that Des had known and had relations with. I never knew he had it in him, but at the end of these chapters he would always throw in the obligatory story about a girl he was seeing.Apparently two of them were male as well. Naughty Des! As for the rest, I tend to agree with previous reviews, usually autobiographies start off with the early life and move along to the second half where you get to the parts you wanted to read. Here Des flits from event back to event in no particular sequential order and the reader almost gets lost in it all. He also spills his bile on a few people and management issues which he felt slighted by. Still, an easy read for most. I enjoyed the first few chapters of this book. It is entertaining and informative. It then starts to lose its way, starts rambling, repeating itself and becomes a vehicle for Des to have a moan about certain people or organisations. I read the first half of the book in a couple of days and the rest took me a couple of