{"product_id":"the-second-half-paperback","title":"The Second Half (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A masterpiece ... t\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehoughtful and self-mocking, insightful and funny' THE TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n'\u003cb\u003eHe's scarily extreme, dangerously provocative, oxy-acetylene forthright ... and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehugely entertaining' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003e'Searingly honest' THE SUN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003e'A thoroughly entertaining rampage' Matt Dickinson, THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eNo. 1 bestselling memoir of Roy Keane, former captain of Manchester United and Ireland - co-written with Man Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nIn a stunning collaboration with Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle, Roy Keane gives a brutally honest account of his last days as a player, the highs and lows of his managerial career, and his life as an outspoken ITV pundit.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n'Roy Keane's book is a masterpiece . . . It may well be the finest, most incisive deconstruction of football management that the game has ever produced' \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n'A genuine pleasure . . . His thoughts on his players are humane, interesting, candid and never less than believable' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n'The best things are the small things: regretting joining Ipswich when he discovered the training kit was blue; refusing to sign Robbie Savage because his answerphone message was rubbish; being appalled that his side had listened to an Abba song before playing football' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n'The book is brilliantly constructed, rattling along at breakneck speed . . . full of self-deprecation . . . a ruthless self-examination' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Wordsworth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47516008612018,"sku":"9781780228822","price":315.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/158320_100361_63f40fcbd8c399.13487920_9781780228822.jpg?v=1779778804","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/the-second-half-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}