Book description
In The Great and the Good, Ireland's leading football pundit and legend
of the game John Giles will look back on more than fifty years of
football, at developments in the game from the post-War period to the
present day, the great players who drove it forward, the visionary
managers and their teams, and the age-old question of what makes a
player good and what makes one great. From his earliest days, John Giles
can recall pondering the subject. 'You'd hear about certain
"great" players, such as Stanley Matthews, but no one would
ever explain why they were great. And it's a thing that has always
frustrated me: trying to define what makes a player great, and what
separates the great from the good.' Now Giles himself brings us the
answers and celebrates the great ones, from Stanley Matthews, Tom
Finney, Dave Mackay, John Charles, Johnny Haynes and Jimmy Greaves to
Pele, Franz Beckenbauer, John Robertson, Diego Maradona, Marco van
Basten, Lionel Messi, Paul Scholes and many more. It will include a
section on Irish players including detailed analysis of such greats as
Roy Keane, Liam Brady and Paul McGrath. And Giles will name the player
he considers the greatest of them all.
