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Paul Howard - The Gaffers: Mick McCarthy, Roy Keane and the Team They Built - 9780862787813 - KTG0011461
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The Gaffers: Mick McCarthy, Roy Keane and the Team They Built

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Description for The Gaffers: Mick McCarthy, Roy Keane and the Team They Built Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
1 September 2001, Lansdowne Road: Ireland vs Holland. In one of the biggest upsets ever seen in football, the Irish team beat the Dutch to gatecrash the World Cup party.

But for Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane -- the chief architects of this incredible achievement --there was no warm victory embrace. They shook hands, briefly and awkwardly, not looking at each other. It was a moment that defined a footballing era: the manager and his captain behaved like strangers, with no hint of the camaraderie said to exist in the team. That moment foreshadowed the most extraordinary debacle ... Read more

Paul Howard examines the complex and explosive dynamic between the two men who brought the Irish team to the World Cup, but whose relationship could not endure to the final round. He talks to the players, the management team and the fans, and raises serious questions about the role of the FAI.

The full story of the Irish team, their World Cup campaign and soccer's greatest controversy.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The O'Brien Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780862787813
SKU
KTG0011461
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Paul Howard
Paul Howard helps Ross O'Carroll-Kelly to write his autobiographical series, largely because Ross can't really write, roysh? Find out more at rossocarrollkelly.com. He is also the author of the bestselling prison expose, The Joy, and co-author of Celtic Warrior, the autobiography of boxer Steve Collins. A former Sports Journalist of the Year, Paul covered the World ... Read more

Reviews for The Gaffers: Mick McCarthy, Roy Keane and the Team They Built
'The best parts of it come after meltdown in Saipan where the writer's short, staccato accounts of each of Ireland's games in Japan and Korea are thrilling, even though anyone reading knows exactly what's coming next'
The Sunday Tribune
The Sunday Tribune
'Compulsive reading'
Killarney Advertiser

Goodreads reviews for The Gaffers: Mick McCarthy, Roy Keane and the Team They Built


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