LATEST!!!
'The Irish Uprising - How Keano & The Mighty Quinn Saved Sunderland' should now be available to buy. It's definitely on sale in Waterstones in The Bridges in Sunderland.
If you live further afield and can't get hold of a copy, they can be had directly from the publisher if you click on this link.
The book covers the takeover of Sunderland by Niall Quinn and the Drumaville consortium, the appointment of Roy Keane and the amazing climb from the bottom of the Championship right to the top, culminating in the team winning the league at Luton in May.
There's also a comprehensive look back at the ten years we've spent in our new home and the Stadium Of Light, complete with all the dizzying highs and excruciating lows.
Extracts from the book can be found at the Irish Uprising MySpace blog.
If you'd like to buy a copy and then have me scrawl all over it for you, I'm doing a book signing at Waterstones in The Bridges on Saturday September 15th (the day of the Reading home match) between 12.30 and 1.30pm.
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'The Irish Uprising' is a new book which covers the extraordinary events at Sunderland football club throughout the 2006-07 season. Read extracts here.
Everything is here - the takeover by Niall Quinn's Drumaville consortium; Quinn's disastrous reign as manager; the appointment of Roy Keane and the team's gradual ascent from bottom to top of the Championship; the mobile phone camera sex scandal; Niall Quinn's Taxi Cabs; the transformation of Nyron Nosworthy from zero to hero; the birth of the Hey Jude/Keano song at Sheffield Wednesday; the emergence of players like Jonny Evans and Carlos Edwards as modern SAFC heroes; the magnificent run-in that saw us lift the title, and a look forward to what the future might hold for the Black Cats. Plus, the foreword is written by none other than SAFC legend King Charlie Hurley.
Plus, to commemorate ten years at the Stadium Of Light, there's a look back of the past decade's extreme highs and lows. Just when you thought you'd forgotten about Wilko, Whitley and tiny Milton Nunez.
Written by Andy Dawson, the Editor-At-Large at men's magazine FRONT, contributor to NME, Viz and When Saturday Comes and SAFC fan since birth, 'The Irish Uprising' tells the tale of Sunderland's rebirth with Quinn and Keane at the helm.
