He was stranger than he knew than any of us knew.
England captain. Mercurial competitor. Pop star manqu. The Face of Brut 33.Pioneer of the footballers perm. Twice winner of the Ballon dOr. Kevin Keeganowned the 1970s. We had never seen his like before. There appeared to benothing he could fail at.

Tracking his career from youth-team player at Scunthorpe to the Englandmanagers job, by way of Liverpool, Newcastle and Hamburg, Keegan considers theextravagant highs of a man who touched the game with genius, who was neverfired and who came within an ace of triumph as a manager. A story of almost andmaybe, of excellence and of failure, it is a story too, perhaps, of the fansquixotic search for a messiah

About the Author

Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964.From 1998 until 2013 he was the film critic for the Independent. Heis the author of ten novels, including The Rescue Man, whichwon the 2009 Authors Club Best First Novel Award; The Streets, whichwas shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize; Freya, a Radio 2 BookClub choice; Curtain Call, which was chosen for Waterstonesand Mail on Sunday Book Clubs and adapted into the acclaimedfilm The Critic in 2024; and, most recently, The Mouthless Dead.