Forever young
Subtitle: the story of Adrian Doherty, football's lost genius
By: Oliver Kay
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9781784295417; 9781848669949; 9781848669864
Subjects: Soccer players; Biography
Description: 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" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-398) and index.

Also issued in electronic format.