McIlvanney on Football

by HughMcIlvanney (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $3.30

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.30

  Hugh McIlvanney is a living legend in sports journalism. A regular winner of the UK Sports Writer of the Year Award, he is the only sportswriter to have been voted Journalist of the Year and in 2005 he was named as one of the top British journalists of the modern era. This book represents the best of almost 40 years of excellence in football writing for The Scotsman, The Observer and the Sunday Times, including accounts of epic matches and profiles of managerial giants from Matt Busby and Bill Shankly to Jack Charlton, Terry Venables and Alex Ferguson. It provides essays on footballing greats such as Pele, Best and Maradona, looks at disasters from Ibrox to Hillsborough and celebrates some of the most spectacular World Cup competitions.

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  Hardcover
  1994

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  Represents the author's 35 years of football writing for respectively The Scotsman , The Observer and The Sunday Times , from the epic Real Madrid versus Entracht Frankfurt European Cup final to the phenomenon of Ryan Giggs. It features profiles of the managerial giants from Matt Busby, Jock Stein and Bill Shankley to Jack Charlton, Alex Ferguson and Terry Venables. He provides essays on footballing greats such as Pele, Moore and Best, looks at disasters from Ibrox to Hillsborough and celebrates World Cup competitions from 1966 to 1994.