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The Boss - Michael Crick

Description: ISBN 0743429915 / Author: Michael Crick / Genre: Sports / Arguably the most successful, and controversial club manager in British football history, Sir Alex Ferguson has also been a prolific chronicler of his own life--seven autobiographies to date--but journalist, author (and ... more

The Boss - Michael Crick ... United fan) Michael Crick claims now to have written the first serious, critical biography of The Boss. Crick, award-winning journalist, and biographer of Michael Heseltine and Jeffrey Archer, attempts to bring the same sort of structured research-based approach to this study of Ferguson--tracing his life from a Govan childhood, his ultimately frustrated playing career, through his first steps in management, to the trophy-harvesting Aberdeen and Manchester United sides that established his place in the pantheon. To this end, there is a page-by-page list of reference sources (including Fergie's own books), and a demonstrable intention to analyse and assess the veracity of various established facts about the Manchester United manager's extraordinary life and career. At times this reads like nit-picking, but what this book reinforces is that Ferguson has been and is a practised and remorseless operator in the public arena--whether it is ham-stringing opponents with his infamous mind games, gagging the media, peddling his own official version of history, or establishing the strict paternalism that is the foundation of the Fergie approach to squeezing performances out of players.

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by MykReeve - written on 29/07/01 (Very useful, 190 readings)
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not just since his recent conviction for perjury and obstructing the course of justice. But how has Archer achieved such notoriety? Well, in this book by Michael Crick, we are treated to rollercoaster ride through the highs and lows of Archer's career, from his election to government as one of the youngest MPs, though his work for numerous charities and his brief stints in the police and in the military, to his involvement in Anglia share dealing and peculiar decision to help the prostitute Monica Coghlan. There can be no denying that Archer's career is a fascinating one, made all the more interesting by the differing accounts of it that the man gives whenever ...

Jeffrey Archer: Stranger Than Fiction - Michael Crick

"He lied. He lied. He lied." (2406 words)
by MykReeve - written on 29/07/01 (Very useful, 190 readings)
Rating: