{"product_id":"keegan","title":"Keegan","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHe was stranger than he knew – than any of us knew.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nEngland captain. Mercurial competitor. Pop star manqué. The Face of Brut 33.\nPioneer of the footballers’ perm. Twice winner of the Ballon d’Or. Kevin Keegan\nowned the 1970s. We had never seen his like before. There appeared to be\nnothing he could fail at.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nTracking his career from youth-team player at Scunthorpe to the England\nmanager’s job, by way of Liverpool, Newcastle and Hamburg, Keegan considers the\nextravagant highs of a man who touched the game with genius, who was never\nfired and who came within an ace of triumph as a manager. A story of almost and\nmaybe, of excellence and of failure, it is a story too, perhaps, of the fans’\nquixotic search for a messiah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Quinn\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Liverpool in 1964.\nFrom 1998 until 2013 he was the film critic for the \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e. He\nis the author of ten novels, including\u003ci\u003e The Rescue Man, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich\nwon the 2009 Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Streets, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich\nwas shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize; \u003ci\u003eFreya\u003c\/i\u003e, a Radio 2 Book\nClub choice; \u003ci\u003eCurtain Call,\u003c\/i\u003e which was chosen for Waterstones\nand\u003ci\u003e Mail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e Book Clubs and adapted into the acclaimed\nfilm The Critic in 2024; and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Mouthless Dead\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45068307726543,"sku":"9780571392261","price":25.62,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_49bda013-aa7f-4d25-9c76-1f36c465e85e.jpg?v=1779087390","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/keegan","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}