Book description
Gordon Strachan has probably become best known among football fans
for his realistic and often witty assessments of his teams'
performances and football matters in general. It is easy to forget
that Strachan forged a career as a player where his abilities made him
the only player ever to win the Football Writers' Player of the Year
Award both north and south of the border.
Now managing Celtic, this fully updated biography of one of
Scotland's most charismatic exports is published 40 years after the
club became the first British team to win the European Cup.
In this comprehensive and fascinating biography, Leo Moynihan looks
at the tenacity of Strachan as a player, determined to prove his old
mentor wrong when Ferguson sold him to Leeds Utd, on the basis of him
being past his best, and the true relationship that exists between
them, as well as the honesty of a man who has often left followers of
the beautiful game scratching their heads, but always full of admiration.
Leo Moynihan is a freelance sports journalist and contributes
regularly to such magazines as
FourFourTwo
and
Champions Magazine
.He lives in London.
