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The latest addition to this highly popular series takes advantage of Liverpool's proximity to some of the most spectacular mountain scenery in England and Wales. Each of the one hundred walks features: a specially drawn map, notes on features of historical and...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-09-30
ePub
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Nicolas Roche has a famous surname to all fans of cycling. The son of legendary Irish and World Champion Stephen Roche,Nicolas had to fight to make it as a professional and even harder to make his mark as his own man in this toughest of competitive sports.His rise up...
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Transworld Digital
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2011-09-29
ePub
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From the late 1960s, Northern Ireland has been mired in violence. Yet it has had seen more than its fair share of sporting heroes - from footballer George Best, through snooker champion Alex Higgins, to boxer Barry McGuigan. Life was tough for these working-class lads,...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-09-29
ePub
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Few sports polarise public opinion as boxing does. Some contend that it is repugnant and barbaric, for others a legitimate, regulated contest of skill, strength and willpower. What cannot be denied is that the fight game has produced some of sport's greatest icons. Many...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-09-23
ePub
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Hunter Davies's first major interview was with John Masefield for The Sunday Times in 1963. In the years since, he has interviewed many of the most famous people that the late twentieth century has to offer, from James Baldwin and Orson Welles to Jack Nicholson and...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-09-23
ePub
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Manchester United are one of the biggest football clubs in the world. Their fame has spread to the most remote corners on earth. The legend grew out of one man's obsession with taking his club to the pinnacle of the European game. Matt Busby was a visionary as well as...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-09-23
ePub
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Into the Light reveals the full thrilling story of Sunderland Football Club - charting the club's progress from being the first great team to dominate the Football League, to the squad which returned to the top of English soccer at the dawn of the new millennium....
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-09-23
ePub
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'. . . it is now!' With these legendary three words the 1966 World Cup final came to an end. England had won, and at 5.15 p.m. on 30 July 1966, Bobby Moore wiped his hands on his shorts, shook hands with the Queen, and took delivery of the Jules Rimet trophy before a...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-09-23
ePub
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In this updated edition of the highly acclaimed Tour de France, Graeme Fife sets the 2015 race in the context of the event's remarkable history, which stretches back to July 1903. Named one of the top 5 sports books of the year by both the Times and the Independent,...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-09-15
ePub
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In We Are Celtic Supporters Richard Purden examines what created the culture, ideas and beliefs around Celtic football club.In new and exclusive interviews with supporters, he explores the Celtic way of life and the rich traditions that give context to much of the...
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Headline
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2011-09-15
ePub
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What's wrong with Football today? In June 2011, Sepp Blatter was elected - uncontested - as president of Fifa once more. Despite attempts to halt the vote amidst allegations and accusations of corruption, the show went on. As How They Stole The Game, David Yallop's...
Editeur :
Constable
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2011-09-15
ePub
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When the name of Theo Walcott was included in the England squad for the 2006 World Cup, shock waves ran through the football world. But no one was more surprised than Theo himself.Five years later, Theo Walcott is one of the most recognizable names in football. As the...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-09-15
ePub
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From the heights of the Grand Slams to a near whitewash in the 2000 Six Nations championship, one factor has remained constant in Scottish rugby - its huge resource of characters. Early in the year 2000, Jeff Connor set out on a mission to track down some of...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-09-09
ePub
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The easy way to get the ins, outs, and intrigue on this beloved sport The National Basketball Association (NBA), with 30 teams and an average attendance of more than 17,000 spectators per game, is the richest and most popular basketball league — and arguably the most...
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For Dummies
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2011-09-07
PDF, ePub
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It’s time to go for gold in the Office Deskathlon… The Olympics are coming – but how can you get into the spirit of things when you’re stuck in the office? Show off your sporting skills and challenge your colleagues to an Email Relay, a round of Eraser High Bounce and a...
Editeur :
Summersdale
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2011-09-05
ePub
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The Premiership is not all glamour, particularly not now Stoke City - the ugly ducklings - are involved...In 2008, Stoke City managed to grind their way into the Promised Land of the Premiership. Under the uncompromising guidance of manager Tony Pulis, they were never...
Editeur :
Short Books
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2011-09-01
ePub
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The Sunday Times Bestseller.Funny, entertaining and really rather inspiring, too --Daily Mail___How does a cripplingly shy, geeky, perennially homesick boy end up rowing across the Atlantic?Ben Fogle's life has been action-packed to say the least. He has rowed across...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-09-01
ePub
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Dally Messenger was an Australian sporting superstar in the early years of the 20th century - a rugby league icon, rugby union champion, and the most popular sporting personality of this day.He was courted by all codes in that heady period of the early 1900s, when rugby...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
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2011-09-01
ePub
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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs . . . then you're probably not a football fan.Years of underachievement. An heroic sense of injustice. A seemingly infinite capacity for self-destruction. John Crace and Spurs were made for each other. But...
Editeur :
Constable
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2011-09-01
ePub
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No player has been more synonymous with the glory years of Manchester United Football Club over the past two decades than right-back Gary Neville. An Old Trafford regular since he attended his first match at the age of six, captain of the brilliant 1992 FA Youth...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-09-01
ePub
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