I've just finished Yoshi's autobiography, Unbeatable Mind, and highly recommend it. If you suffer from a case of Yoshi-Love, as many of us do here, it will only serve to heighten that feeling tenfold. It's actually not badly written (certainly better than Matty's most recent effort) and just tells the story of someone who is clearly just an absolutely lovely bloke. Not much gossip on the Saints front really, more some really quite insightful words about his mindset and what he's done to improve himself during his time here. He genuinely has an uncommon focus on improving his weaknesses - and a lovely way of being self-effacing that makes you warm to him enormously. You get the impression he didn't particularly gel with Poch (as he didn't play him much) and there's the suspicion you get that he thought Pellegrino was hopeless (because he was). He really, really rated Virgil too. There's a lovely line in there talking about the relative pace of players - he says that he sees people like Sadio Mane as cheetahs, whereas he is a zebra, "but the stripes are the red and white of Southampton". I love that man. I really do.
It’s quite short and easy. An afternoon job. But thoroughly enjoyable and with a lovely turn of phrase.
Sure you wouldn’t rather have it carved into blocks of stone, much more durable than that nasty modern paper stuff!
Is there anything about why/how he moved to VVV-Venlo, then to us? I've never seen much written about how football picks up teenagers from random parts of the planet and moves them to mid-sized European towns. It feels like quite an important thing. Also I think it's true that "V" isn't in Japanese.
