Stand by Your Reds: An uncompromising history of the Dandy Dons

By Bryan Cooney

Stand By Your Reds, written by award-winning sports journalist Bryan Cooney, takes readers to locations where few have ventured – notably, the sacrosanct dressing room and those secretive corridors of power. This engaging narrative, built from a chronology of forensic interviews, ranges from the fifties to the present and tells the stories of an idiosyncratic team and an inveterate fan. Although it never neglects the triumphs, it refuses to ignore the turbulences. Cooney features:

The incendiary reign of Eddie Turnbull, manager, martinet
Stuart Kennedy – the first player to front up Furious Fergie
Why Jim Bett was unable to forgive the directors
Steve Paterson makes an extraordinary drinking debut
Leigh Griffiths – why he was the one who got away
The loneliest, most intimidating sacking of Milne’s life
and McInnes reveals what makes him really see red.

Stand Free. Stand By Your Reds. Enjoy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Luath Press
• Release date: Sep 27, 2017
• ISBN: 9781912387106

Bryan Cooney

BRYAN COONEY was Head of Sport at the Daily Mail until 2001. Before this he worked for various Fleet Street newspapers, which included a ten-year stint as Chief Sports Writer for the Daily Star. Since taking early retirement, he has written for the Sunday Herald and picked up three Sports Journalist of the Year Awards. As a broadcaster, he completed six interview series for BBC Radio Scotland, one of which took a bronze at the Sony Awards. He also narrated an edition of Radio Four’s celebrated Archive Hour. He has written three previous books: George Connelly, Celtic’s Lost Legend; Fingerprints of a Football Rascal; and most recently Gerry Rafferty: Renegade Heart.