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.