Jonathan Northcroft is the soccer correspondent for the Sunday Times. He is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 5 Live's football programs, and a regular guest on Sky Sports' Sunday Supplement show. Inaugural winner of the Jim Rodger Memorial Award for young sports writers in Scotland, he was shortlisted for Feature Writer of the Year at the Sports Journalists Association awards in 2006 and Football Writer of the Year in 2016.
Many books examined Leicester City s glorious, unexpected victory
in this year s Premiership, but only Northcroft s account really
understood its significance. The Telegraph, Top 50 Books of
2016
Northcroft s stylish narrative delves deeper than the stock themes
of heart, spirit and long-ball football, and argues that it was,
above all, a triumph of the collective over the individual; the
slow build over the quick fix. Jonathan Liew, The Telegraph
Required reading for every club aspiring to achieve a fraction of
what Leicester did, it reveals in its impeccably researched detail
some of the less appreciated reasons why the greatest miracle in
sports history actually happened. Ian Herbert, The Independent
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