An unique African experience including live music, a welcome drink, a three course African dinner and meet and greet with England’s most decorated goalkeeper.
Come and celebrate the birthday and the release of the autobiography of Bruce Grobbelaar with a colorful African night.
This will be one to remember when we dedicate the night to Liverpool FC’s number one throughout 13 years and 19 trophies.
This night includes a personal meet and greet and the opportunity to buy a signed copy of one of this year’s most exciting and entertaining football autobiographies.
After dinner you will be taken on a very special journey when Bruce Grobbelaar, in conversation with his ghostwriter Ragnhild Lund Ansnes, takes you though his highs and lows of life.
About Bruce Grobbelaar:
The Liverpool FC icon has a background far from ordinary growing up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), pegged to the ground behind the goal of his dad as a toddler, fighting in the Rhodesian bush war as a teenager, being one of few whites playing in the black league. You will hear about the unknown battle Bob Paisley had with the immigration authorities to convince them that no one in the UK would match Grobbelaar’s abilities and qualities as Ray Clemence’s understudy.
Only a few months later, Grobbelaar was thrown into the deep end as Liverpool’s number one, as Clemence surprisingly left for Tottenham.
Walking on hands, sitting on the cross bar and warming up under an umbrella certainly proved he was a different contribution to the English top flight football, it quickly gave him the nick name the Clown Prince, but he soon proved he could achieve a lot more than just clowning around as tiger saves and an offensive style of playing earned him a place year in and out of LFC’s most successful era.
He was also in goal when two of the biggest tragedies in British football in modern times hit the club.
Later he was accused of match fixing, and this night you will finally get the chance to hear his version of what really happened.
Bruce is born on October 6 - so you are in other words invited to his birthday party. It is Bruce himself who has put together the menu together with Hilton’s head chief.
Nights like this do not come around too often. Welcome!
Meet and greet from 8 - 9 PM. Food is being served at 9. A full table of 10 seats or single tickets available.
Strictly only one item signed in addition to as many books as you like to purchase. All the autobiographies sold on the night will be signed.
Book your tickets here.