A wonderfully compelling biography of someone so
unbelievably eccentric and darkly maverick that no fiction writer would dare invent him.
This is a story that, once read, you can't forget. -- Duncan Hamilton, three-time William Hill award winner
A brilliantly captivating book - breathlessly paced and teeming with detail - about the life and times of a man who makes Jose Mourinho look like Mother Teresa.
-- Tom Williams, author of DO YOU SPEAK FOOTBALL?
HH - what a character. A deeply disturbed, malevolent, brilliant man...
A superb book. I absolutely loved it. -- Paul Howard, five-time Irish Book Award winner
A
transfixing, twisting documentary of a book as befits the Herrera story.
Meticulously researched and
masterfully written, like all great football books it goes way beyond the game -- Daniel Gray, author of the acclaimed SATURDAY, 3PM
Richard Fitzpatrick has finally written
the book we've all been waiting to read - about the man Gabriel Garcia Marquez called His Holiness.
A brilliant story; brilliantly told. -- Sid Lowe, GUARDIAN Spanish football correspondent
Helenio Herrera insisted his catenaccio system - which gave us the sweeper - should be attractive, with full-backs overlapping and joining attacks. Yet it was perceived as cautious and defensive. It was also hugely successful and Richard Fitzpatrick,
a fine story teller and diligent journalist, unpicks this fascinating
man who changed football -- Andy Mitten, editor-at-large for FOURFOURTWO
Helenio Herrera - HH, so complex they named him twice.
A man from everywhere and nowhere, who took football somewhere it had never been before,
setting the framework - good and bad - for much of what has come since. With the manic determination of HH himself, Richard Fitzpatrick has hurled himself into
a quest to educate and entertain us with the life and times of this extraordinary man. -- Tim Vickery, BBC Sport South American football correspondent
A fascinating book about a fascinating man. Richard Fitzpatrick has
eloquently captured one of
football's most enigmatic figures. -- Richard Whitehead, acclaimed author of VICTORY IN AUSTRALIA