Book Title: Forever Young: Adrian Doherty /P
ISBN: 9781848669871
By Author(s):OLIVER KAY
By Publisher:QUERCUS
Format:PB
WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR
'This football book is about something even more important than the "beautiful game"; it is a story of the human spirit.' - Mick Hume, The Times
Adrian Doherty was not a typical footballer. For one thing, he was blessed with extraordinary talent. Those who played alongside and watched him in the Manchester United youth team in the early 1990s insist he was as good as Ryan Giggs - possibly even better. Giggs, who played on the opposite wing, says he is inclined to agree.
Doherty was also an eccentric - by football standards, at least. When his colleagues went to Old Trafford to watch the first team on Saturday afternoons, he preferred to take the bus into Manchester to go busking. He wore second-hand clothes, worshipped Bob Dylan, read about theology and French existentialism and wrote songs and poems. One team-mate says "it was like having Bob Dylan in a No 7 shirt".