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Nicholas Lezard loved London. Then the London 2012 Olympics came along ...Suddenly his beloved city was invaded by über-people in branded sportswear who had contorted their bodies into odd shapes in order to run a bit faster, or throw things a bit further. Not to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2012-09-13
ePub
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One of Celtic's greatest ever strikers, Stevie Chalmers epitomised the exciting attacking football with which Celtic took Europe by storm during the 1960s. It was Stevie who scored the golden goal in the 1967 European Cup final that clinched the great trophy for Celtic...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2012-09-13
ePub
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A passionate, haunting and moving work that tells the breathtaking story of how Dutch Jews survived the unspeakable and came to play a strong role in the rise of the most exciting and revolutionary style of soccer -- "Total Football" -- the world had ever...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2012-09-11
ePub
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The hero of 2011 was Martin Snedden. Not even a terrible earthquake prevented him from staging a magnificent World Cup.The hospitality and warmth of the New Zealand welcome at the World Cup is a memory I will always cherish.' - Paul Ackford, Sunday Telegraph, London....
Editeur :
Hodder Moa
Parution :
2012-09-11
ePub
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Eine Einführung in die physikalischen Grundlagen des Segelsports für die an Naturwissenschaften interessierten Segler, die schon immer wissen wollten, wie Segeln tatsächlich funktioniert. »Physik des Segelns« führt zunächst in die einfachen Grundsätze und Bedingungen...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2012-09-10
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Roars from the Back of the Bus is an absorbing, amusing and at times moving collection of tales that give a rare insight into the camaraderie that exists between players at the top of their game, showing that relationships forged through experiences on a Lions tour last...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2012-09-06
ePub
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Geordan Murphy does not come from the leafy suburbs of south Dublin or the rugby hotbeds of Limerick or Cork. As a teenager he played Gaelic football for Kildare minors. But his greatest love, and his true genius, was for rugby. Now nearing the end of a career that...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2012-09-06
ePub
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Twelve-year-old Christian Phillips doesn’t think he will make the junior rugby team. When his parents give him a pair of footy boots before the trial – a gift from his late grandfather, a staunch Wallabies fan – Christian is still not convinced. Shocked when he makes...
Editeur :
Lothian Children's Books
Parution :
2012-09-01
ePub
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In A Rough Ride, Paul Kimmage gives a devastatingly frank account of what life is really like in the world of professional cycling.In tracing his mixed fortunes, Kimmage describes not only the grueling pressures of the sport but also the seamier side: the widespread use...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-08-31
ePub
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This is the definitive reference book on massage as a remedial therapy for sports training and sports injuries. It covers all practical and theroretical aspects of the subject, ranging from the basics through to the treatment of soft tissue injuries; and it gives...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-08-31
ePub
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Cricket, Lovely Cricket is a journey around the perennially curious world of cricket, leaving no metaphorical leg-break unturned and peering at the game from every conceivable angle. Here, Lawrence Booth, who had little option but to turn a youthful obsession with the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-08-31
ePub
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Over 2,000 sporting funnies from every sport: football, rugby, cricket, golf, boxing,snooker and beyond...Two men fishing on a river bank in a canal in London on a Saturday afternoon miles away from a radio or TV. Suddenly one man turns to the other and says, 'Spurs...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-08-31
ePub
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The Premiership in Focus celebrates 15 years that have changed the face of football. When Football Focus began life on BBC1 in 1968 as Football Preview, football in England was about old wooden terraces, grounds that were ankle deep in mud or covered in snow and a...
Editeur :
Bbc Digital
Parution :
2012-08-31
ePub
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Liverpool FC is one of the world's leading football clubs - and a host of talented Irish players have played a significant part in its history. Here, Keith Falkiner looks at the proud history ofLiverpool F.C. through the eyes of its Irish players, managers and fans...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2012-08-30
ePub
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It's March in Ireland - the flat season is about the start and Irish Times racing correspondent, Brian O'Connor has decided to boldly go where no racing correspondent has gone before. He puts his money where is mouth is and attempts to turn Euro 5,000 into Euro 50,000....
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2012-08-20
ePub
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Ringside is a bountiful collection of the most memorable boxing stories by legendary fight-game writer Budd Schulberg. Schulberg takes us all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England 200 years ago; draws a revealing portrait of 'Uncle' Mike Jacobs, the...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2012-08-17
ePub
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After a decade in football wilderness, weighed down by the legacy of unmatched domestic and European successes in the 1970s and ’80s, Liverpool Football Club – under new French coach Gérard Houllier and forward-looking chief executive, Rick Parry – face up to the huge...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2012-08-17
ePub
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"An accessible and different guide for students and practitioners alike... I'm sure that it will become a standard reference text for sports management"
- Peter Taylor, Sport Industry Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University
"A must have introductory reference...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2012-08-16
PDF, ePub
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Pippa Funnell is the golden girl of the British equestrian scene - but it hasn't always been so. She seemed doomed to be a 'misser' in the really big competitions, lacking that special ingredient that makes a true champion. Everything began to change for her in 1999...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2012-08-16
ePub
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First-hand accounts of football violence, from infamous Millwall to Man U. Once dubbed 'the English disease', British match-day thuggery has spread right across Europe and beyond. Here is the inside story of that phenomenon from those that were there, taking part in the...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2012-08-16
ePub
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