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The history of sport is littered with tales of exemplary courage: sportsmen and women pushing their bodies through the pain barrier, or defying career-threatening injuries, in quest of victory. From the goalkeeper who played in a FA Cup Final with a broken neck to the...
Editeur :
Abacus
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2011-02-03
ePub
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In 2006, Liverpool fans voted Ian Rush among the top three all-time greatest players in the history of the club. Taking his place alongside Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard, he surpassed football legends such as Fowler, Keegan, Owen, Smith, Carragher and Hansen. Ian...
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Ebury Digital
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2011-01-31
ePub
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Sport can offer catharsis in times of crisis, but not this time. Liston was a mob fighter with a criminal past, and rumours were spreading that Clay was not just a noisy, bright-eyed boy blessed with more than his share of the craziness of youth, but a believer in a...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-01-25
ePub
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Lance Armstrong’s surprise announcement in 2008 that he would return to cycling to raise global awareness about cancer prompted widespread speculation about performance-enhancing drugs, the validity of his past victories and his true motivations.In Tour de Lance, Bill...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-01-25
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The St Andrews Old Course Starter's Box was sold in a controversial international auction on 10 September 2001, the day before the infamy of the Twin Towers attack. 'Play Away Please' recounts the glory of the little building in St Andrews, 'the home of golf', and tells...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-01-25
ePub
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Voices from the Back of the Bus provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at international rugby at the height of a golden period. Recounted with genuine warmth and much humour, over a hundred players recall the scrapes, the games, the laughs, the glory and the gritty...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-01-25
ePub
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In September 2001 the British Association for the Advancement of Science (the BA) embarked on the world's largest, and most unusual, scientific experiment. The aim of the project was to find the world's funniest joke, and answer important questions about the psychology...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
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2011-01-25
ePub
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50th anniversary edition of the story of the team that caused the last, great FA Cup upset...'Times have changed but this book is an engrossing reminder for all fans' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'An essential piece of British football history for fans of any club. Brilliantly...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2011-01-20
ePub
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Fishing can take you to the heart of a landscape in a way few other forms of travel can match. Whether in the world's most outlandish and awe-inspiring places or just at the end of your road, fishing will introduce you to crabby weather and crabbier locals, moon-phases,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-01-18
ePub
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Lions legend Bobby Windsor has enjoyed triumphs beyond the dreams of most international players but has also suffered personal tragedy. His rugby career as the best hooker in the British Isles during the second golden era of Welsh rugby in the 1970s is a turbulent tale...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-01-18
ePub
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Robbie Savage could have been just another Manchester United reject. Instead, he used the Old Trafford scrapheap as a springboard to become one of the most instantly recognisable footballers in the Premier League, despite being told by Sir Alex Ferguson he was not good...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-01-18
ePub
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This is the story of a genius with flaws. Lots of them. On the field, Andy Goram was a defiant figure between the sticks who, in many ways, defined the history-making nine-in-a-row team that brought so much success to Ibrox; off it, he careered through three divorces...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-01-18
ePub
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In the spring of 1892, Frank G. Lenz, a gallant young accountant from a modest German American family, set forth from his unhappy home in Pittsburgh to circle the globe atop a new 'safety' bicycle with inflatable tyres (the forerunner of today's road bike). He brought...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-01-11
ePub
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The Ryder Cup has defined Sam Torrance's life as a professional golfer. He has played with and against some of the greatest golfers the game has ever known, in the biggest and most high-pressure team event in golf.In An Enduring Passion, Torrance recalls every great...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-01-11
ePub
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***FOREWORD BY FABIO CAPELLO***Since their first appearance in the competition in 1950, England's World Cup story has been one of broken dreams, bad luck, shock losses and penalty nightmares, with one shining exception in 1966, when they famously won the Cup after...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-01-11
ePub
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A hilarious diary of a young American soccer fan, who supports Malcolm Glazer's new Manchester Buccaneers'My name is Roswell P. Shambling. I'm a 12-year-old Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan. I saw Malcolm Glazer bought EPL soccer side Manchester and they are now my favourite...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-12-30
ePub
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The long-awaited autobiography of Richard Hill, World Cup winner and the rugby fan's most admired player.Nicknamed 'the Silent Assassin', Richard Hill is often most noticed when he isn't playing, as somehow his teams never perform as well without him as they do when...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2010-12-23
ePub
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A fascinating insider's look at life behind-the-scenes at Formula One.'An essential read' AUTOSPORT'A must for the real inside story' FORMULA 1 RACING'Recommended for anyone interested in F1 on the inside' MOTORING NEWSFormula One Grand Prix mechanic Steve Matchett...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2010-12-16
ePub
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Football is at the heart of British culture – yet never has it been in greater turmoil. Once, football stood for passion, community, honour, even beauty. The game is in danger of losing its lifeblood - and its soul. In The Beautiful Game? David Conn, the game's most...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-12-15
ePub
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Cricket defines Englishness like no other national pastime. From its earliest origins in the sixteenth century (or an early version played by shepherds called creag in the 1300s), through the formation of the MCC and the opening of Lord's cricket ground in 1787, to the...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2010-12-15
ePub
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