'One of the best football books I've ever read.' John Motson on
Provided You Don't Kiss Me 'Some people believe football is a
matter of life and death. I am very disappointed by that attitude.
I can assure you it's much more important than that' - Bill Shankly
What Shankly said isn't even half-true. In fact, it's bollocks.
Football isn't the be-all and end-all of everything. If nothing
else, I know that much. As a player, Thom Callaghan was defined by
the winning goal he scored in an FA Cup final. The goal wasn't the
blessing he imagined it would be. His whole career was defined by
that brief moment of glory. With his playing days over, Callaghan,
still a local hero, is tempted back to his old club as caretaker
manager. His task to rescue it from relegation. He's got the job
solely on the recommendation of his former boss and mentor Frank
Mallory, now desperately ill and responsible for the team's
precipitous decline. Callaghan is pitched into the Premier League
during the last months of the 1996-1997 season, where - among
reputations more gilded than his own - he finds himself pitted
against the likes of Alex Ferguson's Manchester United, chasing
their fourth title in five years, and also one of the newest
recruits to the English game, Arsene Wenger. Can Callaghan save his
club from what seems the inevitability of the drop? Does Mallory -
eccentric, inspirational and manipulative - even want him to
succeed? What if the prize of a personal triumph isn't worth it in
the end? Injury Time is the first novel from the multiple
award-winning sportswriter Duncan Hamilton.
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