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THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PROMISED LAND AND DOES YOUR RABBI KNOW YOU'RE HERE? SETS HIS FOCUS TO YORKSHIRE, AND ITS ENDANGERED STATUS AS A SPORTING POWERHOUSE.'If you want to know how it feels to be left behind, if you want to know how it feels to be forgotten, if you...
Editeur :
Riverrun
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2016-09-01
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In these days of oligarch owners, superstar managers and players on sky-high wages, the tide is turning towards the lower reaches of the pyramid as fans search for football with a soul.Plucky underdogs or perennial underachievers, your local non-league team offers hope,...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-09-01
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Following the success of Simon Hughes’ Red Machine and Men in White Suits, books which depicted Liverpool FC’s domination during the 1980s and its subsequent fall in the 1990s, Ring of Fire focuses on the 2000s and the primary characters who propelled Liverpool to the...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2016-08-25
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Nature Watch is the ultimate guide to watching British wildlife, from renowned naturalist and TV presenter Simon King.More and more people are discovering the joys of being out and about in the British countryside. Yet surprisingly few of us know where and what to look...
Editeur :
Quadrille
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2016-08-25
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THE PERFECT FATHER'S DAY GIFT!Since the earliest writings of civilization, people have been writing about fish and the pursuit of them. Taut Lines is a book of the present with regular forays into the past, reflecting not on where we're going, but where we've come...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2016-08-01
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We encourage children to play sports from an early age in order to instill in them such virtues as teamwork, perseverance, respect, fairness, and discipline, but, as perennial scandals in the headlines show us, sports also give rise to thorny ethical problems. Can the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-14
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Cricket is a strange game. It is a team sport that is almost entirely dependent on individual performance. Its combination of time, opportunity and the constant threat of disaster can drive its participants to despair. To survive a single delivery propelled at almost...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-07-07
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Sean Conway was stuck in a life dead end of his own making when he heard about a round the world cycling race. He was immediately inspired – but it was a huge undertaking and he’d hardly been on a bike in years. Could he really cycle all the way round the world, solo...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2016-07-07
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‘It had long ago ceased to be a giddy adventure. It was all mulchy bog, heather and rocks. And tired, aching legs. And then Ty said something that really struck a chord.“It’s a Man Test now, lads. Just finish it.”I got it immediately. Finishing the race was no longer...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2016-06-30
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Conor McGregor's trainer tells the amazing story of his long road to success in the world's fastest-growing sportGrowing up in Dublin, John Kavanagh was a skinny lad who was frequently bullied. As a young man, after suffering a bad beating when he intervened to help a...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-06-30
ePub
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John Oaksey has seen it all in racing, as a jockey, commentator and newspaper reporter. After a lifetime devoted to the sport he recalls the splendid characters, horses and races that have made horseracing the great passion of his life, a passion that he is so...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2016-06-16
ePub
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Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year AwardIn 1704 a bankrupt English merchant sent home the colt he had bought from Bedouin tribesmen near the ruins of Palmyra. Thomas Darley hoped this horse might be the ticket to a new life back in Yorkshire. But...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2016-06-16
ePub
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'I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.' Brian Clough Sport is the stuff of high drama, big personalities and some very memorable quips. This collection of funny and thoughtful words from across the sporting spectrum is at the...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2016-06-09
ePub
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Since 1990, football history has become increasingly important within the field of sport science, yet few studies have centred on the Europeanization of the game from the interwar period onwards. This period saw the creation of a sovereign institution dedicated to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-03
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Chris Boardman is the 2017 winner of the Cross Sports Cycling Book of the Year for his autobiography Triumphs and Turbulence. ‘The true inspiration was that Olympic gold won byChris Boardman in Barcelona… I was so in awe ofChris Boardman’ Sir Bradley WigginsYou may know...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2016-06-02
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'England invented football, codified it, became champions of the world in 1966 but humiliatingly then forgot how to play the greatest game of all. England took their eye off a ball they arrogantly thought they owned, allowing other nations to run off with it.'It was...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2016-06-02
ePub
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'If the ball's there, hit it. Don't worry about what might happen. Play for the glory. Play for the six'Chris Gayle is the only man to have ever hit a six off the first ball of a Test match. But then producing the impossible is an everyday act for the West Indies...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-06-02
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Fearless. Competitive. Controversial. Three words that sum up the football career of Alan Mullery. His passion for football is matched by a stream of anecdotes about the players that have filled his professional life, including Bobby Moore, Pele, Johnny Haynes, Jimmy...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2016-05-26
ePub
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'In many ways Jimmy Hill was football. He was a true great of the game.' - Greg Dyke, Chairman of the Football AssociationJimmy Hill died on 19th December 2015 but very much remains a household name. Renowned for his outspoken views, recognised the world over by his...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2016-05-19
ePub
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On 15 April 1989, the world witnessed one of the worst football disasters in history occur at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. 96 people were crushed to death and another 766 injured in a tragedy that was later admitted to have been exacerbated by police...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2016-05-19
ePub
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