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Author
Publisher
deCoubertin Books
Pub. Date
2014
Description
As the manager of Sheffield Wednesday and Everton, Harry Catterick amassed more top flight points in the 1960s than all his rivals, finishing outside the top six on only one occasion. Yet, unfairly, he stands in the shadows of contemporaries such as Bill Shankly, Don Revie and Brian Clough in the public consciousness.
Author
Publisher
Arrow Books
Pub. Date
2016
Description
This is a book about football managers, live and uncut. The average lifespan of a manager in the Championship is eight months. New records for volatility are set every season. What makes these men tick? They are familiar figures, who rarely offer anything more than a glimpse into their personal and professional lives. Who are they? What shapes them? How and why do they do their job? Award-winning writer Michael Calvin provides the answers.
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2005
Description
To develop this portrait, journalist Patrick Barclay has interviewed those who have worked with Jose Mourinho, such as Sir Bobby Robson and Louis van Gaal, as well as the players who provide a revealing insight into what has made Mourinho the most successful manager in the world in 2005.
Author
Publisher
Yellow Jersey Press
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Jurgen Klopp's super-sized personality and all-or-nothing style of football and management made him the perfect choice to pump up the volume at Anfield. The appointment sparked hysteria in the city with fans and club officials delighted to get the coach they'd long admired from afar and eager to see the impact he would have on the club and the Premier League. With exclusive access to Klopp's friends, family, colleagues and players, Raphael Honigstein...
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2011
Description
To develop this portrait, journalist Patrick Barclay has interviewed those who have worked with Jose Mourinho, such as Sir Bobby Robson and Louis van Gaal, as well as the players who provide a revealing insight into what has made Mourinho the most successful manager in the world in 2005.
Author
Publisher
Ebury Press
Description
As innovative as Arsene Wenger and as effective as Jose Mourinho, Jurgen Klopp is the charismatic German manager who single-handedly overthrew the accepted order in German football, taking Borussia Dortmund from nowhere to back-to-back Bundesliga titles and the Champions League final. With nothing more to prove in Germany, Klopp took the brave decision to move to Liverpool in 2015, determined to restore pride and glory to the Merseyside club. Here...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Tracing the footballing fortunes of ten England managers, this text shows just why the England football team has struggled to live with the weight of expectation. It describes the highs and lows, the agony and ecstacy, and close calls and the humiliations.
Author
Publisher
Yellow Jersey
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Alex Ferguson is one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in football today. His 25-year tenure of the Manchester United dugout has seen him win everything there is to be won in football. This book fills in the gaps left by Ferguson's own book 'Managing My Life'.
Author
Publisher
Ebury Press
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Who is Louis Van Gaal? An inflexible ex-PE teacher who only knows how to act like a dictator or a footballing visionary that has made him one of the greatest ever European managers? This biography offers psychological insight - from his earliest roots to his greatest triumphs - into the man given the task of returning the glory days to Manchester United.
13) Sven: my story
Author
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Perhaps no football manager has ever had his personal life dissected as thoroughly as Sven-Goran Eriksson. Yet the man that monopolised the British press during five tumultuous years as England manager remains an enigma. Who, precisely, is Sven? Here, in his no-holds-barred autobiography, the secretive Swede takes us on one of the wildest rides in world football. Populated by fake sheikhs, Italian lawyers, Nottingham outlaws and, of course, many of...
Author
Publisher
HarperSport
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Since England's famous 1966 World Cup victory, Alf Ramsey has been regarded as the greatest of all British football managers. By placing Ramsey in an historical context, this work provides an insight into the world of professional football, and the fabric of British society over the span of his life.
Author
Publisher
GPRF
Pub. Date
2008
Description
50 years of unparalleled success. An incredible 35 major trophies in five decades. Eight men would lead the club during this time, four of them former Liverpool players. But how was that success achieved? And how can those successes me measured against one another? This book sets the context for such analysis.
Author
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2015
Description
With nearly 20 years as a player - plus almost 25 years as a coach and manager - under his belt, Sam Allardyce is one of the most recognisable figures in British football. Big Sam has been a robust defensive general throughout the 70s and 80s, and an imposing touchline presence as a gaffer since 1994. Until he left West Ham in the summer of 2015, he was the second longest-serving manager in the Premier League behind Arsene Wenger. Over the last 42...
Author
Publisher
Michael O'Mara Books Limited
Pub. Date
2016
Description
This insider account of the private man and public manager begins at Old Trafford in 2004, when Mourinho's Porto put Manchester United out of the Champions League. Since then, author Robert Beasley has enjoyed unparalleled access and unrivalled experience with Mourinho both on a professional basis and on a personal level. Touring alongside Mourinho during his first tenure at Chelsea, Beasley forged a friendship with the manager that has lasted to...