Author Description

RED TRAITOR is a football book with a difference, a deeply personal memoir of a fan who also became a soccer writer and sometimes found it difficult to reconcile the two.Evans worked in the Press Boxes of Old Trafford and Maine Road for 25 years, reporting on United's fall from grace after their European Cup triumph of 1968 and City's moribund period when the antics of fans wielding huge inflatable bananas were more entertaining than the football. As a youngster he was an avid Red, watching the Busby Babes in the 1950s and then revelling in the golden age of Best, Law and Charlton in the 1960s.But his dream was not to score United's winning goal at Wembley, but to write about them When that fairy tale came true he quickly encountered issues of loyalty.Evans's 'Odyssey' is a fascinating journey, full of insights of events on and off the pitch, and imbued with a passion for football which began with his first 'live' match in 1953, when his dad took him to a Cheshire League game, and continues now from the comfort of his ranting armchair.