Hugh McIlvanney is a sports journalist, and a regular winner of the fiercely contested UK Sports Writer of the Year award, he also has the distinction of being the only sports writer to have been voted Journalist of the Year. This collection represents the best of almost 40 years of football writing for "The Scotsman", "The Observer" and "The Sunday Times", from the epic Real Madrid versus Eintracht Frankfurt European Cup final to the World Cup in France 1998. He profiles managerial giants from Matt Busby, Jock Stein and ...
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Hugh McIlvanney is a sports journalist, and a regular winner of the fiercely contested UK Sports Writer of the Year award, he also has the distinction of being the only sports writer to have been voted Journalist of the Year. This collection represents the best of almost 40 years of football writing for "The Scotsman", "The Observer" and "The Sunday Times", from the epic Real Madrid versus Eintracht Frankfurt European Cup final to the World Cup in France 1998. He profiles managerial giants from Matt Busby, Jock Stein and Bill Shankly to Jack Charlton, Alex Ferguson and Terry Venables. He provides essays on footballing greats such as Pele, Moore, Best and Maradona. He looks at disasters from Ibrox to Hillsborough and celebrates World Cup competitions from 1966 to 1994.
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