Download or read book Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Grimsby Town FC written by Ian Carroll and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ULTIMATE 'Secret Santa' gift, for the avid football fan. The book contains absolutely nothing, just the title on each page throughout the 130 pages! The book is blank and sold as a joke for people who dislike the team or a joke to play on people who absolutely love and adore their team - would make an ideal Christmas Present and is available for many, many football teams. Just wait until they open their present to find a book on their favourite or least favourite football team! Watch them look annoyed or laughing with joy as they flick through the quality blank pages!! The book would be ideal to use as a notebook and will amuse and thrill your family and friends!!
Download or read book Sport written by Tim Harris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know tells the history of sport. All sport. Ever. From ancient times to the 21st century. In eight themed parts, Tim Harris describes the triumphs and breakthroughs - as well as the cheating and skulduggery - that have created the modern world of sport. Dip into it, or read it cover to cover - there's a 'Oh - now I get it' moment on every page. Sport: it's unique, funny, amazingly comprehensive and packed with extraordinary anecdotes to turn any reader into a sporting expert.
Download or read book The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw written by Paolo Hewitt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Friday was an exceptional footballer who should have played for England. He never did. Robin Friday was a brilliant player who could have played in the top flight. He never did. Why? Because Robin Friday was a man who would not bow down to anyone, who refused to take life seriously and who lived every moment as if it were his last. For anyone lucky enough to have seen him play, Robin Friday was up there with the greats. Take it from one who knows: 'There is no doubt in my mind that if someone had taken a chance on him he would have set the top division alight,' says the legendary Stan Bowles. 'He could have gone right to the top, but he just went off the rails a bit.' Loved and admired by everyone who saw him, Friday also had a dark side: troubled, strong-minded, reckless, he would end up destroying himself. Tragically, after years of alcohol and drug abuse, he died at the age of 38 without ever having fulfilled his potential. The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw provides the first full appreciation of a man too long forgotten by the world of football, and, along with a forthcoming film based on Friday's life, with a screenplay by co-author Paolo Hewitt, this book will surely give him the cult status he deserves.
Download or read book The Windsor Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Get Your Head in the Game written by Dominic Stevenson and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Your Head in the Game is the first book to tackle the issue of mental health and its relationship with the most popular sport in the world, football. Football is more than just a sport; the pitch reveals emotion in the extreme, from the glory of goals, the thrill of comradeship, the rollercoaster of club loyalty, through to the immense pressure of expectation, fear of injury, and crushing defeat. Fans, players, managers, coaches, and even those new to the sport can't help but be swept up by the drama at the heart of the beautiful game. But when players at the peak of their physical fitness commit suicide, or poor mental health derails careers, there can still be a stunned silence in the community, a lack of connection. In Get Your Head in the Game, Dominic Stevenson, a writer, player, coach, and lifelong football obsessive, interviews a diverse cross-section of characters in the football world, from fans to managers, from players at the start of their careers to retired veterans, women's football stars, international celebrities, refugee footballers and mental health professionals. Football is more than just a sport. The pitch reveals emotion in the extreme: from the glory of goals, the rollercoaster of club loyalty, through to the immense pressure of expectation, fear of injury, and crushing defeat. Fans, players, managers, coaches and even those new to the sport can't help but be swept up by the drama of the beautiful game. But when players at the peak of their physical fitness commit suicide, or poor mental health derails careers, there can still be a stunned silence in the community, a lack of connection. Dominic Stevenson, a writer, player, coach and lifelong football obsessive, interviews a diverse cross-section of characters in the football world to try to understand this lost connection between the sport and the mind. This book contains contributions from internationally renowned players such as Sam Hutchinson, Chris Kirkland, Ella Masar, John Harkes and Iffy Onoura. From voices at top clubs around the globe including Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and DC United, to the stories of smaller clubs and unsung heroes behind the scenes, Dominic reveals personal battles both on and off the pitch, touching on anxiety, depression, discrimination, trauma, identity and recovery.
Download or read book Drinks All Round written by Kevin Drinkell and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Drinkell has always put himself in the firing line. Now he lifts the lid on his rollercoaster life in football – as a striker, manager and top football agent. ‘Drinks’ was one of the most prolific forwards in the British game and his scoring exploits had top managers like Terry Venables and Alex Ferguson vying for his signature. Kevin reveals his pride as he fired Grimsby Town up the leagues and then his hurt and anger as his hometown team blocked his move to the big-time. He recalls his action-packed spell at Norwich City, where he was Player of the Year for two consecutive seasons, how he knocked back a move to Manchester United and was denied a dream switch to Spurs. Drinks also admits for the first time how he made a major mistake in quitting Rangers after he had finished as the SPL’s top scorer and helped the Ibrox giants take their first step on the road to Nine-in-a-Row. Kevin then returned to England and now tells of his catastrophic move to Coventry, his falling out with his former Rangers captain Terry Butcher and why he returned to Scotland to help lead Falkirk and Stirling Albion to glory. Drinks All Round is an honest, revealing, no-holds-barred account of a footballer who scored goals wherever he went.
Download or read book John McDermott It s Not All Black White written by John McDermott and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John McDermott received the annual PFA Merit Award, in recognition of his record-breaking career at Grimsby Town, he joined an elite group of footballers made up of the likes of Sir Bobby Charlton, Pelé and George Best. McDermott was added to the distinguished list of recipients in recognition of his record-breaking career at Grimsby Town. He played an incredible 754 games overall for the Mariners and is one of only seventeen players in the history of English football to play more than 600 Football League matches for the same. Now McDermott is lifting the lid for the first time on the career that made him one of the most respected defenders in the Football League for two decades and secured him legendary status among the fans at Blundell Park. He gives a humorous and revealing insight into what went on behind the scenes as the Mariners marched to back-to-back promotions to the second tier of English football and also muses on the pitfalls of staying loyal to a single club.
Download or read book Red or Dead written by David Peace and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors' Choice "[T]he stuff of great literature." —The New York Times | "Red or Dead is a winner." —The Washington Post The place where the swinging sixties started – Liverpool, England, birthplace of the Beatles – wasn’t so swinging. Amid industrial blight and a bad economy, the port town’s shipping industry was going bust and there was widespread unemployment, with no assistance from a government tightening its belt. Even the Beatles moved to London. Into these hard times walked Bill Shankly, a former Scottish coal miner who took over the city’s perpetually last-place soccer team. He had a straightforward work ethic and a favorite song – a silly pop song done by a local band, “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” Soon he would have entire stadiums singing along, tens of thousands of people all dressed in the team color red . . . as Liverpool began to win . . . And soon, too, there was something else those thousands of people would chant as one: Shank-lee, Shank-lee . . . In Red or Dead, the acclaimed writer David Peace tells the stirring story of the real-life working-class hero who lifted the spirits of an entire city in turbulent times. But Red or Dead is more than a fictional biography of a real man, and more than a thrilling novel about sports. It is an epic novel that transcends those categories, until there’s nothing left to call it but – as many of the world’s leading newspapers already have – a masterpiece.
Download or read book Hope written by Hope Powell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the pioneering England women's football manager. Hope Powell was a skinny little Black girl from South London who only ever wanted to play football. Brought up in a violent home, she was actively discouraged from playing. The original Bend It Like Beckham girl, this is the amazing story of how a kid from a Greenwich housing estate became one of the most influential women in world football. A revered international footballer and then, for fifteen years, manager of England, Hope Powell will forever be the face of English women's football. She took the national game from amateurism to top-flight performance – and dedicated herself to opening up the sport to hundreds of thousands of girls and young women at the grassroots level. A Black, gay woman who's been a relentless pioneer for equal rights, the story of her battles against authority are an object lesson in how determination and bravery can make a lasting change.
Download or read book Leicester City FC Miscellany written by David Clayton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you ever needed to know about Leicester City.
Download or read book How to Be a Football Manager Enter the hilarious and crazy world of the gaffer written by Ian Holloway and published by Headline. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The funniest and most entertaining sports book you'll read this year. 'fascinating, frank, funny' Jim White, Daily Telegraph 'insightful' Henry Winter, The Times 'very entertaining ... great stories' Hawksbee & Jacobs, talkSPORT radio 'an incredible book' The Football Show, Sky Sports News 'Yeah, I'm all that plus a bag of chips' 'Come round my house and we'll have a fight on the front lawn' 'I'm as chuffed as a badger at the start of the mating season' 'I thought his bum cheeks looked very pert' Football management is like being a potato - you're never too far from the sack and everyone is constantly chipping away at you. It's not for the faint-hearted and unless you've got skin as thick as rhino and, more importantly, a wicked sense of humour, you've no chance of surviving. Ian Holloway - aka 'Ollie' - has all the above and more besides. His press conferences are the stuff of legend. He's been there, seen it and done it in his 40 years as player and manager, and has been entertaining football fans on and off the pitch for most of his life. He's been head honcho at clubs in all four divisions in English football, experiencing everything from the giddy heights of taking Blackpool to the Premier League to fighting relegation from the Football League with Grimsby Town. There's never been a dull moment. In the joyful How to Be a Football Manager, Holloway weaves a fantastically rich tapestry of hilarious anecdotes to reveal what being the boss is really like. This is not a handbook to tell you when to play a Christmas tree formation or throw on a false nine - it's about dealing with the ridiculous, fighting your corner and always having a comeback.
Download or read book Me written by Elton John and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, from his rollercoaster lifestyle as shown in the film Rocketman, to becoming a living legend. Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three he was performing his first gig in America, facing an astonished audience in his bright yellow dungarees, a star-spangled T-shirt, and boots with wings. Elton John had arrived and the music world would never be the same again. His life has been full of drama, from the early rejection of his work with song-writing partner Bernie Taupin to spinning out of control as a chart-topping superstar; from half-heartedly trying to drown himself in his LA swimming pool to disco-dancing with Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth; from friendships with John Lennon, Freddie Mercury, and George Michael to setting up his AIDS Foundation to conquering Broadway with Aida, The Lion King, and Billy Elliot the Musical. All the while Elton was hiding a drug addiction that would grip him for over a decade. In Me, Elton also writes powerfully about getting clean and changing his life, about finding love with David Furnish and becoming a father. In a voice that is warm, humble, and open, this is Elton on his music and his relationships, his passions and his mistakes. This is a story that will stay with you by a living legend.
Download or read book Cunard Yanks written by John Winter and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cunard Yanks were British men, mostly young, who worked on Cunard ships from the 1940s to the early 1960s on the transatlantic routes, mainly between Liverpool and New York. American consumer goods, fashions and music which they brought to Liverpool gave the city a special awareness of popular American culture. New York is their second home at a time when few British people go there. They see Buddy Holly play at the famous Apollo Theatre in Harlem and watch Pee Wee Marquette introduce Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie at Birdland. They visit Jack Dempsey’s Bar and shake the great man’s hand. And catch the A-line to Coney Island before watching Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. American clothes and records, and gifts of stockings and perfume, are a hit with the girls back home, while American music inspires groups like the Beatles who play at the Cavern and the Casbah, as well as at the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg, before finally presenting their Merseybeat version of rock ‘n’ roll to the world.
Download or read book Anxiety A Very Short Introduction written by Daniel Freeman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we born with our fears or do we learn them? Why do our fears persist? What purpose does anxiety serve? In this Very Short Introduction we discover what anxiety is, what causes it, and how it can be treated. Looking at six major anxiety disorders, the authors introduce us to this most ubiquitous and essential of emotions.
Download or read book The Remnant written by John Broughton and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Perfecta Saxonia and The Runes Of Victory comes a riveting story of survival, adventure and second chances. They were here millennia ago, and now they're back... to remedy an old mistake. As humankind struggles with survival, an ancient race of creators sets in motion a plan that will define the future of Planet Earth. In the middle of it all are Mark and Charlotte: two teenagers oblivious to what is happening around them, or why they have been chosen. Abducted and altered, the two soon become pawns in game beyond their comprehension. With the fate of the human race hanging in the balance, will they find their way to a new Garden Of Eden, or face complete annihilation?
Download or read book ThirdWay written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
Download or read book From Rags to Riches and Back written by Freddie T. Rowbotham and published by ShieldCrest. This book was released on 2010 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of my eventful life in detail, from my early years during the Second World War and through my teenage years. From my humble beginnings, to the rise of a wealthy businessman and the fall from grace and back to my poor existence today.
