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Keane : Origins - Eoin O'Callaghan

Keane

Origins

By: Eoin O'Callaghan

Paperback | 21 August 2020

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Pick your favourite Roy Keane moment. The header against Juventus? The tunnel clash with Patrick Vieira? The bone-crunching challenge on Marc Overmars at Lansdowne Road? All worthy choices that complement his aggressive, combative warrior persona. But that was Version 2.0.

Keane: In The Beginning delves into the inexplicable story of what came before. Focusing on the period between 1988 and 1993, it charts Keane's journey from an economically-ravaged Cork to a spectacular three-season spell under Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest via a memorable stint on a government-funded training scheme and brief spell in the League of Ireland.

With contributions from former team-mates, coaches and those who knew him best, Keane: In The Beginning examines a largely over-looked, under-appreciated and unheralded time in the legendary midfielder's career that set him on the path to immortality.


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Brilliant insight into one of the sport's enduringly fascinating characters... A fascinating book on a man who intrigues us all... Of all the words written about Roy Keane, this book goes further than anything before...superb. A book every Roy Keane fan will want to read - Daniel Taylor, senior football writer, The Athletic


O'Callaghan is an excellent sportswriter. In this, his first book, he deftly takes the reader through Keane's formative years from the early days at Rockmount via Clough and Jack Charlton to his arrival at Ferguson's United: a well-told rites of passage. Eoin O'Callaghan writes with genuine-felt respect for and knowledge of his subject, a huge Irish talent and controversial personality, who fought hard, against the odds, to reach the summit of his football playing career. - Jimmy Burns, author The Hand Of God: The Life of Diego Maradona


You may think you know the Roy Keane story but here is the definitive work that charts his extraordinary journey from Cork boy to ultimate football man in exhaustive and entertaining detail. In an enthralling narrative, Eoin O'Callaghan has pieced together the formative years of a legend using the testimony of eyewitnesses who watched one of their peers outstrip them all. The tale of how Roy Keane came to be is a quite brilliant addition to the Irish football canon. - Dave Hannigan, sports columnist, The Irish Times


Superb. Of all the words written on Roy Keane, this book goes further than anything before. Brilliant, fascinating insight into a man who intrigues us all - Daniel Taylor

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