- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781446420249
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
When You Put on a Red Shirt
The Dreamers and their Dreams: 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
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
Its evocation of a vanished age should be required reading for the Ronaldos and Rooneys of our day
Sunday Herald