Martin
O'Neill: The Autobiography, by Alex Montgomery (2003)
MARTIN O'Neill is one of the most successful and intriguing of the new manager/coaches to emerge from British football.
This biography deals with every aspect of O'Neill's life and remarkable career from his early days as a player in Northern Ireland and joining the tyrannical Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest.
It chronicles his managerial triumphs from non-league Grantham Town, and Wycombe Wanderers, to Norwich City and Leicester City, then on to Celtic. The author offers an insight into the beliefs, the lifestyle, the ambitions, the hopes and the fears of a private and complex man. He examines the effect sectarianism had on O'Neill's formative years - O'Neill was the first Roman Catholic captain of Northern Ireland and produced unprecedented success at the 1982 World Cup finals in Spain.
But his defining career moment came before Nottingham Forest's first European Cup final when he was dropped by Clough.