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Visionary

Subtitle:: Manchester United, Michael Knighton and the Football Revolution 1989-2019
By:: Phillip Vine with Michael Knighton
Price:: £19.99
Out:: 15th November 2019
ISBN:: 9781785315770
Format:: Hardback
Size:: 240 x 160
Pages:: 384

Description

Michael Knighton is one of the most notable football entrepreneurs of his generation. Thirty years ago he arrived on the scene at Manchester United, bearing the revolutionary gift of ideas for the transformation of the club's fortunes. Visionary is the story of his time at Old Trafford - a crucial, incendiary period in United's history.

Click here to listen to Michael Knighton talking about Visionary on TalkSPORT

About the author

Phillip Vine has ghostwritten a weekly football column in a north of England newspaper, edited the literary magazine Words International, and once worked as secretary of a Football League club. As a writer of fiction, he has won prizes and commendations for his short stories, most recently in the Olga Sinclair International and the English Heritage Ghost Story Competition.

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