Mugsy - My Story - Owen Mulligan

Why spend your life trying to fit in  when you were born to stand out?  
There is only one Mugsy. No football team could live with two.  And on the Tyrone football team that dominated Gaelic football through the first  decade of the millennium, winning three All- reland titles, and reinventing the game as  we know it, Owen Mulligan lived the life of a footballer unlike anyone else in Ireland.  His instinctive brilliance on the field left his teammates, friends and supporters  breathless - never more so than when he scored one of the greatest goals of all time  in Croke Park against Dublin, in the victorious summer of 2005,  His life off the field, however, also left Mickey Harte and Co gasping for air at  times and left Mugsy locked up in a jail cell in the middle of Tyrone's crowning year.  For ten years on the Tyrone team, nobody lived life to the fullest quite like Mugsy.  In Mugsy: My Story he recounts life on and off the pitch. With a disarming honesty  and courage he explains how Tyrone repeatedly overcame the odds to win All-Irelands  in 2003, '05 and '08, recalls his personal battles with Armagh's Francie Bellew and  some of the toughest defenders in the game, and admits his struggles to remain true  to the demands of his manager, Mickey Harte.  Mugsy: My Story is unlike any GAA book ever written. It's the story of men who  sacrificed everything to be No.1 but it's also the story of a man who struggled to  make those sacrifices and who ultimately became the talisman for the greatest team  in the modern game.