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Official LFC Joe Fagan Book Reluctant Champion

On 30th May 1984 Joe Fagan made football history - he became the first English manager to win the Treble. After just one season as coach he had led Liverpool to victory in the League Cup, the League Championship and finally the European Cup, beating AS Roma on home soil after a gripping penalty shootout. It was an unprecedented triumph, and at the end of a golden age.

Unassuming, down-to-earth and never one to court publicity, little is known about Joe Fagan - a man who played a pivotal part in Liverpool's domination of the game in the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, but whose achievements were later obscured by disaster.

A scouser born and bred, he joined the Anfield coaching staff in 1958, after a playing career at Manchester City and yeards learning his craft in the lower leagues. At the time Liverpool were in the stranglehold of Second Division mediocrity - but then, a year later, Bill Shankley arrived, and everything changed.

With a knack for nurturing the talents of precocious youngsters, Fagan quickly became part of Shankley's trusted inner circle. Indeed, not only was Fagan one of the original members of the fabled Boot Room, he is widely credited with its creation.

Under Bob Paisley Fagan was appointed second-in-command. So when Paisley stepped down, the reluctant Fagan was the obvious and only choice to succeed him - and what followed surpassed the dreams of even the most success-spoilt Kopites.

However, just one year after Liverpool's European triumph in Rome, the death of 39 fans at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels saw the club's glittering record tarnished by tragedy, and English football exiled from Europe. Fagan announced his retirement just hours later - and stepped back into the anonymity he craved.

Now, drawing for the first time on Joe Fagan's own diaries, as well as a raft of new interviews with players, colleagues and contempories, this biography celebrates the record of one of football's least celebrated greats, and reveals the inner working of Liverpool's golden age.

Andrew Fagan is a journalist who has written for the Daily Telegraph and the Independent. He is Joe's grandson. Mark Platt is a writer and broadcaster who currently works for LFC TV. His previous books include Liverpool : Cup Kings 1965, Liverpool : Cup Kings 1977 and At The End Of The Storm.

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