De Coubertin Books

Italia 90 was, in a sense, the first and the last World Cup. It was also the best and worst World Cup. It was football stood at a junction. It was the World Cup of Gazza's tears and Nessun Dorma, a grand spectacle of colour and drama that made football suddenly fashionable again - at least among the wider English public (and salivating television executives). Yet it was also a World Cup low on goals and high on fouls which led to the re-writing of football's rulebook.

Chaos is a Friend of Mine tells McGregor's journey to becoming one of the most controversial sports stars of the 21st century, loved and loathed in equal measure, a divisive figure who, by 2018, was a multi-millionaire champion shacked up in Las Vegas and waiting for his latest superfight.

Green Shoots is the engrossing account of the inside stories, dramas and dreams of the game in Ireland. Above all it is the definitive history of a footballing nation and its many paradoxes.