HH

A wonderfully compelling biography of someone so unbelievably eccentric and darkly maverick that no fiction writer would dare invent him. This is a story that, once read, you can’t forget. -- Duncan Hamilton, three-time William Hill award winner

A brilliantly captivating book – breathlessly paced and teeming with detail – about the life and times of a man who makes José Mourinho look like Mother Teresa.

-- Tom Williams, author of DO YOU SPEAK FOOTBALL?
HH – what a character. A deeply disturbed, malevolent, brilliant man... A superb book. I absolutely loved it. -- Paul Howard, five-time Irish Book Award winner
A transfixing, twisting documentary of a book as befits the Herrera story. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, like all great football books it goes way beyond the game -- Daniel Gray, author of the acclaimed SATURDAY, 3PM
Richard Fitzpatrick has finally written the book we’ve all been waiting to read – about the man Gabriel García Márquez called “His Holiness”. A brilliant story; brilliantly told. -- Sid Lowe, GUARDIAN Spanish football correspondent
Helenio Herrera insisted his catenaccio system - which gave us the sweeper - should be attractive, with full-backs overlapping and joining attacks. Yet it was perceived as cautious and defensive. It was also hugely successful and Richard Fitzpatrick, a fine story teller and diligent journalist, unpicks this fascinating man who changed football -- Andy Mitten, editor-at-large for FOURFOURTWO
Helenio Herrera – HH, so complex they named him twice. A man from everywhere and nowhere, who took football somewhere it had never been before, setting the framework – good and bad – for much of what has come since. With the manic determination of HH himself, Richard Fitzpatrick has hurled himself into a quest to educate and entertain us with the life and times of this extraordinary man. -- Tim Vickery, BBC Sport South American football correspondent
A fascinating book about a fascinating man. Richard Fitzpatrick has eloquently captured one of football'smost enigmatic figures. -- Richard Whitehead, acclaimed author of VICTORY IN AUSTRALIA
One Hel of a story... uncovers the explosive truth behind a man who went further than anyone else in his fierce desire to win. * The Sun *
Assiduously researched... tells Herrera's outrageous story with verve'. * FINANCIAL TIMES *
A brilliant book. -- Eamon Dunphy
A fascinating read. * Hawksbee & Jacobs, TalkSport *
Compelling * The Sun *
Remarkable * Scottish Daily Mail *
A brilliant book * Off the Ball – BBC Scotland *
I adored the book from start to finish... A very good piece of work. -- Neil Atkinson * The Anfield Wrap *
One of the most significant coaches in the history of the game. -- Tim Vickery
A fascinating way to write a book… Great story. -- Dotun Adebayo
A real page-turner, and one which deserves to take its place among the 'classics' of football writing... brilliantly explored.... a compelling read -- Jimmy Burns * La Revista *
Richard Fitzpatrick’s remarkably detailed research, alongside interviews with those who crossed paths with Herrera throughout his career, helps to illustrate something of a Shakespearean tragedy: a man who was consumed by the desire to succeed at all costs, making modern managers’ obsessive behaviours seem tame. * The TLS *
The story we never knew we needed about one of football's darkest, but most influential figures * William Hill Sports Book of the Year Reading Panel *
Blows the reader’s mind… Genius writing * Adrian Durham, William Hill Sports Book Awards *