The greatest Manchester Utd star who never was
Forever Young: The Story of Adrian Doherty, Football’s Lost Genius,
Sport/biography, Forever Young: The Story of Adrian Doherty, Football’s Lost Genius, By Oliver Kay; Quercus, €19
Adrian Doherty, the great lost hope of Irish football, once wrote a song called An Oblivious History. Its typically eccentric lyrics poke fun at a roll call of icons including John the Baptist, Friedrich Nietzsche and Muhammad Ali. The singer concludes that none of them really mattered and neither does he, which is fine by him because ...