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Don Revie and Brian Clough were born a brisk walk away from each other in Middlesbrough, in 1927 and 1935 respectively. They were brought up in a town ravaged by the Depression and went on to become highly successful professional footballers. Then, as young managers,...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-07
ePub
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Dive in! The water's fine.Packed with clear, professional instructions, helpful tips and advice, and information on indoor and "open" (ocean) swimming, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Swimming, has everything a swimmer needs, no matter what skill level, to make the most...
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Dk
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2011-04-05
ePub
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For 125 years, the GAA has been a fixed point in a fast-changing age, and this oral history marks the125th anniversary of the Association. It is the story of the GAA as seen through the eyes of those key personalities who shaped it. Author Jon Scally has carried out...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape is the astonishing biography of French cycling star Jacques Anquetil. For the first time since his death in 1987, it reveals the extraordinary truth behind the legend, the man and the cyclist.His list of 'firsts' alone makes him worthy of a...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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This is the ultimate armchair companion to practically every sport ever invented, put together with sports fantatic Ray Stubbs.Check out the rules, history, players and events for over 250 of the world's greatest sports: from basketball to bobsleigh, karate to korfball,...
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Dorling Kindersley
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2011-04-01
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With a flamboyant approach to the game on and off the pitch, Australia's greatest bowler Shane Warne is an irresistible cricketing force. In Shane Warne's Century, he candidly profiles 100 players from every Test nation who have had the most significant impact on his...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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Mark Ramprakash is arguably the greatest English batsman of his generation, but he is also an enigma. He is among an elite group of players who have scored 100 first-class centuries, yet has never flourished as he should have done at Test level. To many people in the...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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No one feels the heat of an Ashes battle more than the captains of England and Australia. The weight of national expectation, and more than 120 years of history, is on their shoulders from the moment they walk out to toss a coin and start a Test match that is like no...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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In 100 GAA Greats, John Scally celebrates the most significant players Gaelic games have brought us in their 125-year history. He selects those footballers, hurlers, managers and camogie players who have lit up Irish sport, becoming national treasures in the process,...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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Voices from Croke Park charts the journeys of 12 true greats of the Gaelic games, each of whom has helped shape the rich history of football and hurling. These are men who pursued glory in Ireland's greatest sporting arena, players whose passion and vision were embodied...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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Wales were written off as no-hopers at the start of the 2008 Six Nations. They had failed to reach the World Cup quarter-finals the previous October and had reacted by appointing their 13th coach in 19 years, New Zealander Warren Gatland.On the opening weekend, success...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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Shane Williams has spent almost a decade thrilling the rugby world with his evasive running skills and a box of tricks that has left the best defences grasping thin air, disproving the notion that size matters in modern professional rugby. He's been called the little...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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Since making his national debut in 1998, Stephen Jones has emerged from the shadows of the true greats of Welsh rugby, such as Barry John, Phil Bennett, Jonathan Davies and Neil Jenkins, to make the fly-half position his own. In this revealing autobiography, he provides...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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In the 1970s, an age long before World Cups, rugby union to the British public meant Bill McLaren, rude songs and, most of all, Wales. Between 1969 and 1979, the men in red shirts won or shared eight Five Nations Championships, including three Grand Slams and six Triple...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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As former England striker and television pundit Jimmy Greaves famously said, football is 'a funny old game'. In A Load of Balls: Football's Funny Side, John Scally confirms the truth of his statement by providing a potpourri of double entendres, timeless quips and...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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West Ham United last won a major trophy in 1980, but the roller-coaster ride of the past three decades has produced enough twists and turns, heroes and villains and contrasting emotions to grace the script of the most thrilling TV soap opera.Since Trevor Brooking headed...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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For more than 120 years, Rangers and Celtic have vied for supremacy in one of the world's sporting hotbeds. The rivalry between the two teams is among the fiercest anywhere in sport, making an Old Firm derby much more than a football game. Controversy is rarely far...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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The 2007-08 season for Leeds United Football Club will have been anything but regular. At the end of the previous season, one of England's most famous football clubs was relegated to what is in effect the Third Division. Still stricken with mountains of debt accumulated...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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Welsh footballer Alan Curtis is synonymous with Swansea City, having played for the club during three different spells, but he also played for Leeds United, Southampton and Cardiff City, and won thirty-five caps for his country during an action-packed playing career...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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Brian Clough's forty-four-day tenure as manager of Leeds United in 1974 is one of the most infamous episodes in British football history. While the bestselling The Damned United was a fictional account of Clough's short-lived but controversial reign at the club, We Are...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-01
ePub
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