- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781446420249
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
When You Put on a Red Shirt
Memories of Matt Busby, Jimmy Murphy and Manchester United
- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781446420249
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
When You Put on a Red Shirt is the story of dreamers, hard men who wanted to create perfection on the football pitch. It's a story of tactics and idealism, poetry and savagery. The great strength of this book is the absence of nostalgia. Keith Dewhurst writes fondly but it's a hard, often cruel, world he's describing. And the muck! Jesus. I'd forgotten it existed.
Roddy Doyle
Its evocation of a vanished age should be required reading for the Ronaldos and Rooneys of our day
Sunday Herald
Keith Dewhurst brings to his subject the precision of a time-served journalist of the old school, the insights of a major dramatist and the uncompromising love of a lifelong supporter. Along the way he kicks a few myths into touch - notably the idea of the beautiful game being beautiful all the way through. You can't have beauty without the beast and Keith honours both parties.
Alan Plater
Glorious...if only all football books were this good.
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