Euro Summits: Plenty of pace in an entertaining Euros retrospective
Journalist Jonathan O’Brien goes back to the humble beginnings of the European Championship in an impeccably researched and lovingly written account of one of our most popular football tournaments
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Euro Summits: The Story of the Uefa European Championship 1960 to 2016
By Jonathan O’Brien
Pitch Publishing, €24.40
Given the huge amount of fanfare around Uefa’s European Championship in recent years and the hype already mounting for this summer’s delayed tournament, it’s hard to believe that Europe’s premier football competition was once a hard sell.
Without the vision, work rate and obstinacy of a “mild-mannered, bespectacled bureaucrat whose playing career never got out of ...