COPIES of Bermuda football star Shaun’s Goater’s autobiography Feed the Goat <$>sold so quickly that the Bermuda Book Store is staging another signing next month during the late night Christmas shopping.Goater, who played for Manchester City among a number of teams in England, saw the 200 books go off the shelves so fast during the book signing earlier this month at both the store in Hamilton and at the Dockyard location.

Hannah Willmott, manager of the Bermuda Book Store, said this week: “We ran out so quickly in both Hamilton and Dockyard. The two hundred books we brought in for both stores were gone immediately. A lot of people were buying three and four copies at a time. So now we are going to have another book signing on December 15 in the evening during the late night shopping in Hamilton.”

Willmott added: “The book is being very well received. I looked on Amazon and it is rated four stars.”

One customer who bought a few copies of Feed the Goat <$>and had Goater sign them said: “I lined up early and so did a lot of other people. Thankfully I did because the books were sold out in half and hour. They could bring in 500 and they will sell like hotcakes.”

Goater’s book has received excellent reviews in the UK and in the latest issue of the football magazine FourFourTwo, Goater is featured in the regular column called You Ask The Questions <$>which features questions from fans.

One fan asked: “As a black man from Bermuda, was it hard playing at Rotherham?”

Goater replied: “I’d never experienced racism until I came to England at 17 and it was hard to cope with, but when you love something, you see through all that. People would shout abuse — and in the early days it would be the home fans — but I ignored it. Another character might have reacted differently but I just went out and played. As long as it stayed in the stands it didn’t affect me.”Another fan asked: “After being shown the door at Man United, did you worry about joining City?”

Goater replied: “My goal when I left Bermuda was to play at the highest level and when I left United, I didn’t doubt it was going to happen, but I didn’t anticipate eight years at Rotherham and Bristol City first.”

Goater also responded to a fan’s query about managers saying that Joe Royle was “what every player wants: a manager who believes in you and sticks by you”.

However Goater was not impressed with former England boss Kevin Keegan who he played under at Manchester City. “I always felt he didn’t really rate me. I’d be man of the match or score two goals against Man United and wouldn’t get the slightest ‘Well done’, whereas he was always happy to praise Robbie Fowler or Nicolas Anelka. I scored 32 goals but it was never enough.”

Huge demand for ‘Feed the Goat’