The Changing Game: The past, present and future of football

A WATERSTONES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS: SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025

This is a book about the development of football in the last half century. Changes in life are inevitable. So why not football? And I have witnessed many changes in the professional game, some good, some not so good.

In The Changing Game stellar manager Martin O'Neill offers his unique perspective on the events, managers and teams that define football. Bringing his sharp instincts and intellect through his tenures as a manager for Nottingham Forest, Leicester City, Celtic and the Republic of Ireland, fans will enjoy the first-hand anecdotes of how to prepare for and play against the titans of the game. Martin explores every aspect of contemporary football at the highest levels, including speaking truth to the powers-that-be, how teams deal with injuries, foreign influences on the British game, the changing roles of managers, coaches and agents and the effect of social media and wage structures on players.

Charting the evolution of the top levels of professional football from the beginning of O'Neill's career in 1971 all the way to the present day, you'll enjoy O'Neill's unvarnished take on the inside story of the changing game.