" A wonderfully compelling biography of someone so unbelievably eccentric and darkly maverick that no fiction writer would dare invent him. This is a story that, once read, you can''t forget. " --Duncan Hamilton, three-time William Hill award winner " A brilliantly captivating book - breathlessly paced and teeming with detail - about the life and times of a man who makes José Mourinho look like Mother Teresa. " --Tom Williams, author of DO YOU SPEAK FOOTBALL? "HH - what a character. A deeply disturbed, malevolent, brilliant man. A superb book. I absolutely loved it. " --Paul Howard, five-time Irish Book Award winner "A transfixing, twisting documentary of a book as befits the Herrera story.

Meticulously researched and masterfully written , like all great football books it goes way beyond the game" --Daniel Gray, author of the acclaimed SATURDAY, 3PM "Richard Fitzpatrick has finally written the book we''ve all been waiting to read - about the man Gabriel García Márquez called "His Holiness". A brilliant story; brilliantly told. " --Sid Lowe, GUARDIAN Spanish football correspondent "Helenio Herrera insisted his catenaccio system - which gave us the sweeper - should be attractive, with full-backs overlapping and joining attacks. Yet it was perceived as cautious and defensive. It was also hugely successful and Richard Fitzpatrick, a fine story teller and diligent journalist, unpicks this fascinating man who changed football " --Andy Mitten, editor-at-large for FOURFOURTWO "Helenio Herrera - HH, so complex they named him twice. A man from everywhere and nowhere, who took football somewhere it had never been before, setting the framework - good and bad - for much of what has come since. With the manic determination of HH himself, Richard Fitzpatrick has hurled himself into a quest to educate and entertain us with the life and times of this extraordinary man. " --Tim Vickery, BBC Sport South American football correspondent " A fascinating book about a fascinating man.

Richard Fitzpatrick has eloquently captured one of football''s most enigmatic figures ." --Richard Whitehead, acclaimed author of VICTORY IN AUSTRALIA waiting to read - about the man Gabriel García Márquez called "His Holiness". A brilliant story; brilliantly told. " --Sid Lowe, GUARDIAN Spanish football correspondent "Helenio Herrera insisted his catenaccio system - which gave us the sweeper - should be attractive, with full-backs overlapping and joining attacks. Yet it was perceived as cautious and defensive. It was also hugely successful and Richard Fitzpatrick, a fine story teller and diligent journalist, unpicks this fascinating man who changed football " --Andy Mitten, editor-at-large for FOURFOURTWO "Helenio Herrera - HH, so complex they named him twice. A man from everywhere and nowhere, who took football somewhere it had never been before, setting the framework - good and bad - for much of what has come since. With the manic determination of HH himself, Richard Fitzpatrick has hurled himself into a quest to educate and entertain us with the life and times of this extraordinary man.

" --Tim Vickery, BBC Sport South American football correspondent " A fascinating book about a fascinating man. Richard Fitzpatrick has eloquently captured one of football''s most enigmatic figures ." --Richard Whitehead, acclaimed author of VICTORY IN AUSTRALIAVickery, BBC Sport South American football correspondent " A fascinating book about a fascinating man. Richard Fitzpatrick has eloquently captured one of football''s most enigmatic figures ." --Richard Whitehead, acclaimed author of VICTORY IN AUSTRALIAwaiting to read - about the man Gabriel García Márquez called "His Holiness". A brilliant story; brilliantly told. " --Sid Lowe, GUARDIAN Spanish football correspondent "Helenio Herrera insisted his catenaccio system - which gave us the sweeper - should be attractive, with full-backs overlapping and joining attacks. Yet it was perceived as cautious and defensive.

It was also hugely successful and Richard Fitzpatrick, a fine story teller and diligent journalist, unpicks this fascinating man who changed football " --Andy Mitten, editor-at-large for FOURFOURTWO "Helenio Herrera - HH, so complex they named him twice. A man from everywhere and nowhere, who took football somewhere it had never been before, setting the framework - good and bad - for much of what has come since. With the manic determination of HH himself, Richard Fitzpatrick has hurled himself into a quest to educate and entertain us with the life and times of this extraordinary man. " --Tim Vickery, BBC Sport South American football correspondent " A fascinating book about a fascinating man. Richard Fitzpatrick has eloquently captured one of football''s most enigmatic figures ." --Richard Whitehead, acclaimed author of VICTORY IN AUSTRALIAwaiting to read - about the man Gabriel García Márquez called "His Holiness". A brilliant story; brilliantly told. " --Sid Lowe, GUARDIAN Spanish football correspondent "Helenio Herrera insisted his catenaccio system - which gave us the sweeper - should be attractive, with full-backs overlapping and joining attacks.

Yet it was perceived as cautious and defensive. It was also hugely successful and Richard Fitzpatrick, a fine story teller and diligent journalist, unpicks this fascinating man who changed football " --Andy Mitten, editor-at-large for FOURFOURTWO "Helenio Herrera - HH, so complex they named him twice. A man from everywhere and nowhere, who took football somewhere it had never been before, setting the framework - good and bad - for much of what has come since. With the manic determination of HH himself, Richard Fitzpatrick has hurled himself into a quest to educate and entertain us with the life and times of this extraordinary man. " --Tim Vickery, BBC Sport South American football correspondent " A fascinating book about a fascinating man. Richard Fitzpatrick has eloquently captured one of football''s most enigmatic figures ." --Richard Whitehead, acclaimed author of VICTORY IN AUSTRALIAVickery, BBC Sport South American football correspondent " A fascinating book about a fascinating man. Richard Fitzpatrick has eloquently captured one of football''s most enigmatic figures .

" --Richard Whitehead, acclaimed author of VICTORY IN AUSTRALIAVickery, BBC Sport South American football correspondent " A fascinating book about a fascinating man. Richard Fitzpatrick has eloquently captured one of football''s most enigmatic figures ." --Richard Whitehead, acclaimed author of VICTORY IN AUSTRALIAwaiting to read - about the man Gabriel García Márquez called "His Holiness". A brilliant story; brilliantly told. " --Sid Lowe, GUARDIAN Spanish football correspondent "Helenio Herrera insisted his catenaccio system - which gave us the sweeper - should be attractive, with full-backs overlapping and joining attacks. Yet it was perceived as cautious and defensive. It was also hugely successful and Richard Fitzpatrick, a fine story teller and diligent journalist, unpicks this fascinating man who changed football " --Andy Mitten, editor-at-large for FOURFOURTWO "Helenio Herrera - HH, so complex they named him twice. A man from everywhere and nowhere, who took football somewhere it had never been before, setting the framework - good and bad - for much of what has come since.

With the manic determination of HH himself, Richard Fitzpatrick has hurled himself into a quest to educate and entertain us with the life and times of this extraordinary man. " --Tim Vickery, BBC Sport South American football correspondent " A fascinating book about a fascinating man. Richard Fitzpatrick has eloquently captured one of football''s most enigmatic figures ." --Richard Whitehead, acclaimed author of VICTORY IN AUSTRALIAVickery, BBC Sport South American football correspondent " A fascinating book about a fascinating man. Richard Fitzpatrick has eloquently captured one of football''s most enigmatic figures ." --Richard Whitehead, acclaimed author of VICTORY IN AUSTRALIAad never been before, setting the framework - good and bad - for much of what has come since. With the manic determination of HH himself, Richard Fitzpatrick has hurled himself into a quest to educate and entertain us with the life and times of this extraordinary man. " --Tim Vickery, BBC Sport South American football correspondent " A fascinating book about a fascinating man.

Richard Fitzpatrick has eloquently captured one of football''s most enigmatic figures ." --Richard Whitehead, acclaimed author of VICTORY IN AUSTRALIAVickery, BBC Sport South American football correspondent " A fascinating book about a fascinating man. Richard Fitzpatrick has eloquently captured one of football''s most enigmatic figures ." --Richard Whitehead, acclaimed author of VICTORY IN AUSTRALIA.