Old School: Beckett, bikes, balls and all

Liam Beckett is old school. One of Northern Ireland’s best-loved sports pundits, few can touch him when it comes to talking about road racing and football. And he doesn’t just talk the talk, he’s walked the walk – he was Robert Dunlop’s mechanic and mentor for almost twenty years and during his ten-year football career he was both player and manager.

In this new book, Beckett talks frankly about what these sports mean to him, how they have changed and the challenges that lie ahead. Among other things, he talks passionately about his sporting heroes; relives the games he’ll never forget; gets stuck into those who co-opt sport into religion or politics; and opens up about the loss of William Dunlop and his decision to take a break from road racing.

Straight-talking, funny and generous, this is Liam Beckett – telling it like it is!

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Old School: Beckett, bikes, balls and all

Liam Beckett is old school. One of Northern Ireland’s best-loved sports pundits, few can touch him when it comes to talking about road racing and football. And he doesn’t just talk the talk, he’s walked the walk – he was Robert Dunlop’s mechanic and mentor for almost twenty years and during his ten-year football career he was both player and manager.

In this new book, Beckett talks frankly about what these sports mean to him, how they have changed and the challenges that lie ahead. Among other things, he talks passionately about his sporting heroes; relives the games he’ll never forget; gets stuck into those who co-opt sport into religion or politics; and opens up about the loss of William Dunlop and his decision to take a break from road racing.

Straight-talking, funny and generous, this is Liam Beckett – telling it like it is!

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Liam Beckett is old school. One of Northern Ireland’s best-loved sports pundits, few can touch him when it comes to talking about road racing and football. And he doesn’t just talk the talk, he’s walked the walk – he was Robert Dunlop’s mechanic and mentor for almost twenty years and during his ten-year football career he was both player and manager.

In this new book, Beckett talks frankly about what these sports mean to him, how they have changed and the challenges that lie ahead. Among other things, he talks passionately about his sporting heroes; relives the games he’ll never forget; gets stuck into those who co-opt sport into religion or politics; and opens up about the loss of William Dunlop and his decision to take a break from road racing.

Straight-talking, funny and generous, this is Liam Beckett – telling it like it is!


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780732565
Publisher: Blackstaff Press, The
Publication date: 12/13/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 166
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Liam Beckett was born in Ballymoney, County Antrim. He is a sports pundit on BBC Radio Ulster and writes a weekly football column for The Newsletter. He played football for Crusaders and Coleraine in the Irish League as well as for Drogheda in the League of Ireland before moving into management, first with his hometown team Ballymoney United, and also Cliftonville and Institute.After his playing career came to an end Beckett offered a young Robert Dunlop the use of a workshop at his house in Ballymoney. For the next 20 years, he worked as his mechanic/manager until Dunlop’s untimely death at the North West 200 in 2008.

 

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Preface ix

Part 1 Bikes

My road racing journey 3

Road 18

The road racing family 23

The anti-road-racing brigade 29

Then and now 31

Stand-out races and favourite courses 34

My road racing stars 39

William Dunlop 45

Part 2 Balls

Kicking a ball about 63

Crusaders FC 66

Drogheda United FC 76

Coleraine FC 88

From player to manager 106

Cliftonville FC 108

Institute FC 115

Managing, my style 121

On air 125

The game now 131

Changing lives and building bridges 135

Part 3 & All

In the papers 141

Black Santa 145

The Palace 152

There's no place like home 160

Acknowledgements 166

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