FOREWORD BY SIR ALEX FERGUSON. Joe Royle became the youngest player to play for Everton in February 1966 & went on to win six caps under Alf Ramsey & Don Revie. Injury forced a premature end to his career at 32 after spells with Manchester City Bristol City & Norwich. Then he became the manager who fell of the back of a lorry when joining Oldham in 1982. Fourteen fantastic fairytale years followed at the hard-up homespun Lancashire club which Royle put on the soccer map. Oldham achieved the impossible by going to Wembley & spending three years in the Premiership. Then it was off to Everton to Manchester City & to Ipswich as manager. With a foreword by Sir Alex Ferguson this book is an honest account of Joes career & life written with his full cooperation.