Gordon Strachan

Oct 4, 2024 3:18 PM

Author:Leo Moynihan

Gordon Strachan

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.

Reviews

'Gordon Strachan emerges... with three-dimensional clarity'

—— Sunday Times

Leo Moynihan has... done a fine job

—— Sunday Telegraph

Undoubtedly a definitive collection.

—— The Good Book Guide

A startling, harrowing read... far removed from the churn-em-out footballing autobiographies...This is an uncompromising tale, wonderfully told, about one of our most talented and disturbed sporting heroes.

—— Hugh Farrelly , Irish Independent

Heartbreaking...poingnant

—— Robert Philip , Daily Telegraph

One of the finest autobiographies to be written by a footballer... a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows, gain and loss, of loneliness, of fear, of self-loathing, and of guilt.

—— Birmingham Post

It is funny. It is sad. It is brilliant.

—— Hyder Jawad , Birmingham Post

The travails of Tony Adams, Paul Gascoigne and even George Best pale when compared with McGrath's horrors.

—— Paul Rowan , The Sunday Times

McGrath's book is voyeuristic and gruesome... sheds light on one of sport's last great taboos.

—— Rick Broadbent , The Times

Gripping [and] unflinching... His story is as complex as it is moving, as vulnerable as it is brutal.

—— Donald McRae , Guardian

Genuinely absorbing... harrowing and honest... his is a story truly worth telling.

—— Adam Marshall , Eurosport

Amid the basketful of bland post-World Cup books, McGrath's life story stands out a mile... Fascinating reading.

—— Evening Standard

The Republic of Ireland's most popular sportsman, still adored by fans of Manchester United and Villa.

—— BBC Sport

An all-too honest account of a playing career that just got better and better, despite threatening to go off the rails.

—— Sunday Mercury

An extraordinary book.

—— Irish Independent

Harrowing and brutally honest...a gripping story.

—— Derby Evening Telegraph

Brutally honest.

—— The Irish Post

Less a football autobiography, more repentant confessional.

—— Kevin Hughes , FreeSport

stunning

—— FourFourTwo

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