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Quiet Genius - Bob Paisley, British football's greatest manager SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 (Paperback)
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Quiet Genius - Bob Paisley, British football's greatest manager SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 (Paperback)
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 The
full story of the man who brought unprecedented - and since
unmatched - success to Liverpool FC Bob Paisley was the quiet man
in the flat cap who swept all domestic and European opposition
aside and produced arguably the greatest club team that Britain has
ever known. The man whose Liverpool team won trophies at a
rate-per-season that dwarfs Sir Alex Ferguson's achievements at
Manchester United and who remains the only Briton to lead a team to
three European Cups. From Wembley to Rome, Manchester to Madrid,
Paisley's team was the one no one could touch. Working in a city
which was on its knees, in deep post-industrial decline, still
tainted by the 1981 Toxteth riots and in a state of open warfare
with Margaret Thatcher, he delivered a golden era - never
re-attained since - which made the city of Liverpool synonymous
with success and won them supporters the world over. Yet, thirty
years since Paisley died, the life and times of this shrewd,
intelligent, visionary, modest football man have still never been
fully explored and explained. Based on in-depth interviews with
Paisley's family and many of the players whom he led to an
extraordinary haul of honours between 1974 and 1983, Quiet Genius
is the first biography to examine in depth the secrets of Paisley's
success. It inspects his man-management strategies, his
extraordinary eye for a good player, his uncanny ability to
diagnose injuries in his own players and the opposition, and the
wicked sense of humour which endeared him to so many. It explores
the North-East mining community roots which he cherished, and
considers his visionary outlook on the way the game would develop.
Quiet Genius is the story of how one modest man accomplished more
than any other football manager, found his attributes largely
unrecorded and undervalued and, in keeping with the gentler ways of
his generation, did not seem to mind. It reveals an individual who
seemed out of keeping with the brash, celebrity sport football was
becoming, and who succeeded on his own terms. Three decades on from
his death, it is a football story that demands to be told.
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