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Ian Ridley - Kevin Keegan, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2009

Kevin Keegan

An Intimate Portrait of Football's Last Romantic

Av Ian Ridley

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At Liverpool in the early 1970s Kevin Keegan won three First Division titles, two EUFA Cups, two FA Cups and the European Cup. At Hamburg he was crowned Footballer of the Year two years running, won the Bundeslinga title in 1978-79 and reached the European Cup Final. At Southampton he was voted PFA Player of the Year and was awarded an OBE for his services to Association Football. In his debut season with Newcastle United he helped the club to promotion and he captained the England team for six years from 1976-1982. As a manager his career has been no less newsworthy, although not always for the right reasons. Five heady and successful years at Newcastle from 1992-1997 were followed by more controversial spells with Fulham, England and Manchester City. In 2005, Keegan announced his retirement. Then, in 2008, he made headlines by returning to Newcastle United, the scene of his greatest triumphs -- an announcement which was greeted ecstatically by Newcastle supporters -- and no less sensationally resigned in acrimonious circumstances only nine months later. A revered sports journalist with unparalleled access to insider exclusives, Ian Ridley is the perfect man for the task of understanding what it is that makes Kevin Keegan tick. Training his brilliantly incisive and penetrating gaze on Keegan, Ridley offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of this most enigmatic of men.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2009-10-29
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9781849830546
  • Förlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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Ian Ridley, who co-wrote this book with Tony Adams, is an award-winning journalist and author. He co-authored Tony Adams’ groundbreaking memoir Addicted, and is the author eleven further books. He has written for the Guardian, the Observer and the Mail on Sunday.

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'This book does a decent job (to some extent) of rehabilitating Keegan's reputation, while portraying a contradictory man prone to extreme mood swings' Observer 30/11 'The impression you get from Ian Ridley's Kevin Keegan is that the former Liverpool striker and Newcastle manager does not share this attitude. Admittedly, however, Keegan has had some traumatic experiences: being beaten up at Belgrade airport, being robbed by drug addicts while sleeping in his car, managing the England team. Ridley tells us that Keegan is an emotional character whose tactical naivety precluded him from success with England' Christmas Books, Daily Telegraph 29/11 '"I'm the mongrel who made it to Crufts" is how Kevin Keegan once described himself. What he lacked in natural talent he made up for with hard work, rising from Doncaster reject to caption of England, European Cup-winner and twice European Footballer of the Year... The picture emerges of a man too thin-skinned to cope with modern management' Book of the Week, Independent on Sunday 7/12 'This is a well-researched and interesting biography that football fans will devour' The Sun 12/12 'A perceptive study of a fascinating man' Patrick Collins, Mail on Sunday 14/12 'Ridley hits his straps as he tackles the management years, with an impressive list of interviewees' FourFourTwo magazine Dec issue

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