A History of United: On the Pitch & Off the Drawing Board

HARRY HARRIS is one of the foremost journalists of his generation, behind sensational headlines during his time as Chief Sports Writer at the Daily Mirror and Daily Express. He grew up a Spurs fan and landed his dream job on the Tottenham Weekly Herald exclusively following the club during a tumultuous period which saw the retirement of legendary manager Bill Nicholson. In time Harry moved on to the Daily Mail before arriving at the Mirror where he became Robert Maxwell’s eyes and ears in the football world. His investigations into Terry Venables and his closeness to successive Spurs owners Irving Scholar and Alan Sugar, gave him a unique insight into the crises affecting the club as they struggled to keep up in the Premier League era but made him a controversial figure among a section of Spurs supporters.

PAUL TREVILLION has devised and drawn thousands of sporting features since the early 1950’s and over his eight decades in sport, has become known as the ‘Master of Movement’ for his unique ability to convey dynamic movement in a static image and bring the personality of a subject to life. His extraordinary artistic talent was discovered at a very young age and he was drawing for Eagle, Tiger and the Spurs supporters magazine, The Lilywhite, while still a school boy and went on to revolutionise Roy of the Rovers in the 1960s and supplied illustrations for most of Fleet Street for the next six decades. A living legend, Paul recently turned 90 but remains an enthusiastic follower of Tottenham having seen his first game aged just three years old.