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HH: Helenio Herrera, Football’s Original Master of the Dark Arts, by Richard Fitzpatrick, published by Bloomsbury Sport, Price: £20
RICHARD Fitzpatrick has produced a fascinating biography of Helenio Herrera, one of the most enigmatic, successful and yet disturbing characters in European football.
Herrera had an almost mythic existence: a poverty-stricken childhood; he nearly died from diphtheria; he may have come from Buenos Aires or Casablanca; he said he was born in 1910 but after his death it was it was revealed he was born in 1916.
HH played for eight or nine clubs...

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