Visionary: Manchester United, Michael Knighton and the Football Revolution 1989-2019

‘Three hundred and sixty odd pages, on arguably the greatest United story never told… Not going to say anything more than ‘buy it’. A good, revealing read’ –The United Review Collectors Club

Visionary is the inside story of one of football’s most notable entrepreneurs, Michael Knighton and his crucial, revolutionary ideas for transforming Manchester United’s fortunes.

Knighton is popularly known as the man who very nearly bought Manchester United for the giveaway price of £10million. Ultimately, he spurned the opportunity to complete the purchase, opting instead to join the board and watch as his radical ideas for a commercial revolution were put into action.

Visionary argues the case for Knighton as the architect of the richest football club and greatest sporting brand on the planet – and that it was Knighton’s unacknowledged axis with Alex Ferguson that enabled a paradigm shift in United’s fortunes on the field of play, leading to unparalleled glories.

Sam Wallace of the Daily Telegraph called Michael’s tale ‘one of the great football stories of our time’.

The Immortals: Two Nines and Other Celtic Stories

The Immortals is a passionate love letter to Celtic FC, by turns ecstatic and distressed, angry and joyous, but always obsessed. After the disappointment in 2021 of failing to complete the fabled ten-in-a-row league titles, the author took solace in researching causes for celebration from Celtic’s proud past. His starting point was the rallying cry that ‘two nines are better than one’, and the book’s centrepieces are stories of both of Celtic’s nine-in-a-row triumphs. On his journey he discovered darkness and despair as well as derring-do and delight, the extremes of emotion inevitable in all love affairs. He uncovered the evils of the Irish Holocaust and the poverty of Glasgow’s East End that preceded Celtic’s foundation, the dubious conduct of Celtic’s money-men, as well as the ‘miracles’ of the immortals among the club’s founding fathers, its dynasties, managers and players. The book takes us on a pilgrimage through time with faithful hope for the future.