Harry Catterick: The Untold Story of a Football Great

by Rob Sawyer, Colin Harvey (Foreword)

As the manager of Sheffield Wednesday and Everton, Harry Catterick amassed more top flight points in the 1960s than all his rivals, finishing outside the top 6 on only one occasion. Yet, unfairly, he stands in the shadows of contemporaries such as Bill Shankly, Don Revie and Brian Clough in the public consciousness.

Following extensive research, including being given unique access to the Catterick family’s documents and photographs, Rob Sawyer has recounted the life of this football great for the very first time. It is a story taking in a working class childhood in County Durham, adolescence in Stockport, a playing career stymied by misfortune, the struggles of a lower league managerial apprenticeship, heady times of top-flight success, managerial downfall and ill-health, contentment in semi-retirement and an untimely early passing – fittingly in the place he is most closely associated with.

288 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 12, 2014

Reviews

[Gavin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent informative read for any Everton or fgeneral football man. A great tribute to a great manager too often under appreciated by the wider football world but loved by Evertonians. Highly recommended read

[Paul McCormack · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very serious read on a very serious man. Well researched

[David Macfarlane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book which gives an insight into one of our greatest managers. Downside for me was that most of the blues anecdotes I have heard previously from my dad, I had hoped for a few tales I'd not heard before.

[Mike Murphy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think there's an interesting 'faction' book to be written on this man. As it is, as a quick read it's a nice rattle through a little told story.

[ian quintana · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Catt

Very good insight into a man who never get the recognition he deserved created some great teams especially the 1970 one