Mickey Hartes Autobiography

[longball]

Tyrone Manager Mickey Harte to Write Autobiography
Posted at 10:46AM Friday 22 May 2009

Manager of three-time All Ireland winners Tyrone, Mickey Harte, has signed a publishing contract with Poolbeg Press, one of Ireland's foremost publishers. Mr. Harte's autobiography, provisionally titled Harte, will be published in October 2009.
The charismatic Mr Harte is looking forward to working with the team at Poolbeg Press. Poolbeg Press negotiated the deal in the face of stiff competition from Irish and

international publishers. "We're delighted to be publishing in October the biography of one of the game's most successful managers. It will be a 'must-read' for all GAA fans and the many admirers of the man himself," says Kieran Devlin, Managing Director of Poolbeg Press. Commissioning Editor Brian Langan also expressed his excitement. "Mickey Harte is such a fascinating, complex man and manager. I think his autobiography will be a revelation."

Harte will be written with Michael Foley, GAA correspondent with the Irish edition of The Sunday Times and a previous winner of the "Boylesports Irish Sportsbook of the Year" award.

Mickey Harte says, "I feel this is an ideal time to do this. It is a project that I have given some thought to over the past year or so. Hopefully, people will find it an enjoyable and informative read."

Mickey Harte has been in football management since 1991, having previously coached the Tyrone Minors and Under-21s to All Ireland victories. He has been Senior Football

Manager since November 2002.


source: booktrade.info

[longball]

What would everyone like to see in his autobiography just in case some day soon hes scanning the net and sees what all this 'fans' want to see in his book!

[rrhf]

how he took the crown from the kingdom?

[DennistheMenace]

Charismatic 

[Our Nail Loney]

Charismatic 

I laughed at that too!!

Hopefully the book will be a little more revealing than his riveting Irish News columns. Maybe thats why he's been holding back on us.

[Overthebar!]

i would like him to wait till he retires from management, nothing worse than someone bringing out an autobiography when they are still playing/ managing etc.
makes them look like moneygrabbers...

queue backlash from the half of tyrone

[tyronefan]

the book is not coming out until october    maybe 4 AI's will be enough and he will be retired when the book comes out 

[thebandit]

I thought he wrote one in 2002....

Michaela will probably write the foreword

[SidelineKick]

the book is not coming out until october    maybe 4 AI's will be enough and he will be retired when the book comes out 

Or maybe Antrim or Cavan will beat them and half of Tyrone will be calling for his head...again.

He wouldn't have sold too many this time last year.

[rrhf]

Entitled how to win a second all ireland - sales would have been big in Magherafelt boss. 

[The Real Laoislad]

This book could be a good cure for Insomnia

[amallon]

I find the timing of this strange a bit like the timing of Brian Cody's book.  They will write a sanitised account of their time in management or else both of them are considering stepping down in which case they can tell the whole story.  You can't dish the dirt of players, officials etc while still being the manager.  Harte and Cody's books would be good reads but I'd rather they wrote them after they were finished with the county team and gave us a warts and all account.

[tyronefan]

the book is not coming out until october    maybe 4 AI's will be enough and he will be retired when the book comes out 

Or maybe Antrim or Cavan will beat them and half of Tyrone will be calling for his head...again.

He wouldn't have sold too many this time last year.

maybe maybe maybe

isn't it great that one of them will have that opportunity in the Ulster Final

[SidelineKick]

Or he could call it:

"How to Make a Respectable Man Look Homeless"

[mylestheslasher]

I wouldn't buy it - he wouldn't be honest enough to print the truth and would tippy toe around it instead.