- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: O'Brien Press; Later Printing edition (27 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0862787815
- ISBN-13: 978-0862787813
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,189,847 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'The best parts of it come after meltdown in Saipan where the writer's short, staccato accounts of each of Ireland's games in Japan and Korea are thrilling, even though anyone reading knows exactly what's coming next' -- The Sunday Tribune The Sunday Tribune 'Compulsive reading' -- Killarney Advertiser
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1 September 2001, Lansdowne Road: Ireland vs Holland. In one of the biggest upsets ever seen in football, the Irish team beat the Dutch to gatecrash the World Cup party.
But for Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane -- the chief architects of this incredible achievement --there was no warm victory embrace. They shook hands, briefly and awkwardly, not looking at each other. It was a moment that defined a footballing era: the manager and his captain behaved like strangers, with no hint of the camaraderie said to exist in the team. That moment foreshadowed the most extraordinary debacle in Irish sporting history, when a bust-up between Keane and McCarthy ended in the manager sending the captain home, his World Cup dream in tatters.
Paul Howard examines the complex and explosive dynamic between the two men who brought the Irish team to the World Cup, but whose relationship could not endure to the final round. He talks to the players, the management team and the fans, and raises serious questions about the role of the FAI.
The full story of the Irish team, their World Cup campaign and soccer's greatest controversy.
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Commissioned before the 2002 World Cup (so not a rushed cash-in), Paul Howard's book traces the relationship between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy back to the early 1990s and argues, convincingly, that the uneasy tensions between the two created a dynamic that worked to the advantage of the Irish squad: a sort of "good cop, bad cop" partnership. Drawing on interviews with other members of the Irish team, including Niall Quinn and Jason McAteer, and covering the careers of the rest of the boys in green, Howard treads a careful line, giving the stories behind the headlines and sympathetically highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the two "gaffers" who brought Ireland to Japan and Korea in the first place. Bristling with humour (I especially loved the Shay Given and Robbie Keane pieces) and warmth (Howard is obviously a true fan and hasn't got an axe to grind), and containing terrific accounts of each of the Irish team's World Cup games, this hugely entertaining and unbiased book is a much more insightful and recommended read than that Roy of the Ravers nonsense by Dunphy.
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