num_pages: 219
description: Two men. One team. A shared ambition.Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane didn't like each other much. There was too much history between them. But they had one thing in common: a dream to bring a young Irish team to the World Cup. So they established a working relationship - a good cop/bad cop routine in training, a mutual tolerance at all other times. It worked. Ireland made it to the World Cup.But it couldn't last. The faultline in their relationship - apparent in that awkward handshake after the Ireland vs Holland match - finally cracked open. Ireland went into the World Cup with only one of its gaffers.The full story of the Irish team, their World Cup campaign and soccer's greatest controversy.
language: English
title: The Gaffers: Mick McCarthy, Roy Keane and the Team They Built
titlecomplete: The Gaffers: Mick McCarthy, Roy Keane and the Team They Built
ratings_count: 17
publisher: The O'Brien Press