Download or read book Motson s World Cup Extravaganza written by John Motson and published by Robson. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The man with the best memory in football" – Shoot Monthly The World Cup is footballing nirvana – the ultimate global competition where the best of the best battle it out while the world watches. Added to the live and televised excitement is the one man who is never without his renowned statistics and encyclopaedic knowledge. Here, in his inimitable style, John Motson provides footy-lovers and laymen with a wealth of illuminating and essential trivia on the facts and history of the World Cup. This is the perfect guide to everything about the competition: players; great matches; goals and the personalities that have passed through the ages. The book’s publication will coincide with the start of the 2006 competition and is a must-read for every fan of World-cup facts and trivia.
Download or read book Firsts Lasts Onlys of Football written by Paul Donnelley and published by Hamlyn. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mister Donnelley's compendium of tantalising tales brings you a multitude of intriguing and amusing stories - from the midfielder murdered by a secret police force to a crazed chairman trying to raze to the ground his club's main stand. Marvel at this fascinating exhibition of Firsts, Lasts and Onlys from the illustrious history of this extraordinary game, and encounter remarkable characters, such as: The first footballer to score for both sides in an FA Cup Final. The only Cabinet Minister to play football for his country. The hapless physio knocked out by his own 'magic sponge'.Delve into the pages of this captivating tome and discover the most amazing football miscellany since records began!
Download or read book Motty written by John Motson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ronnie Radford to Wayne Rooney, John Motson's knowledge and passion for football are unrivalled. In Motty, he shares his story for the first time and guides us through a career which has spanned forty years and over 2,000 matches. From reporting on the exploits of the giant-killing Hereford team in the 1972 FA Cup that made his name on Match of the Day, to the estimated twenty-million viewers who tuned in to his commentary on England's match with Portugal at the 2006 World Cup, Motson's time in the commentary box has delivered some unforgettable anecdotes. In dozens of fascinating behind-the-scenes stories, we hear about the greatest football matches he has watched and the greatest players and managers he has been privileged to know. Many of them are football icons; Bill Shankly, Alex Ferguson, Brian Clough, Alf Ramsey, and Matt Busby, amongst countless others. Motty is essential reading for anyone who has grown up with the undisputed voice of football.
Download or read book The World through Soccer written by Tamir Bar-On and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s most popular sport, soccer is a global and cultural phenomenon. The television audience for the 2010 World Cup included nearly half of the world’s population, with viewers in nearly every country. As a reflection of soccer’s significance, the sport impacts countless aspects of the world’s culture, from politics and religion to business and the arts. In The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport, Tamir Bar-On utilizes soccer to provide insights into worldwide politics, religion, ethics, marketing, business, leadership, philosophy, and the arts. Bar-On examines the ways in which soccer influences and reflects these aspects of society, and vice versa. Each chapter features representative players, providing specific examples of how soccer comments on and informs our lives. These players—selected from a wide array of eras, countries, and backgrounds—include Diego Maradona, Pelé, Hugo Sánchez, Cha Bum-Kun, Roger Milla, José Luis Chilavert, Zinedine Zidane, Paolo Maldini, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi, Neymar, Clint Dempsey, Mia Hamm, and many others. Employing a unique lens to view a variety of topics, The World through Soccer reveals the sport’s profound cultural impact. Combining philosophical, popular, and academic insights about our world, this book is aimed at both soccer fans and academics, offering readers a new perspective into a sport that affects millions.
Download or read book Motson s FA Cup Odyssey written by John Motson and published by Robson. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The FA Cup competition is the greatest and most coveted football trophy in the world. Whether you're playing in Chile or Chesterfield, Beijing or Birmingham, come the final in May each year it has a worldwide television audience of billions and is rightly seen as the holy grail of soccer. Added to the excitement, round by round, live on the BBC, is the one man who is never without his renowned statistics and encyclopaedic knowledge: John Motson. For the first time, he provides lovers and laymen with a wealth of illuminating and essential trivia on the history of the FA Cup. The perfect guide to everything you wanted to know about the competition, the players, great matches, goals and the personalities that have passed through the ages. Published to coincide with the beginning of the English FA’s premier event, it is a must read for any fan of football trivia.
Download or read book World Cup 2010 written by Steven D. Stark and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2010 World Cup will be the first ever held on the continent of Africa. This book features introductory essays on the cultural importance of soccer, the World cup, this tournament in particular, and on African soccer. The book contains an introductory essay, table, analysis of team players, coach, history, flag, foods, and uniforms for each of the 32 teams.
Download or read book Viva World Cup written by Nick Brownlee and published by Portico. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The football world cup is the ultimate sporting event - and in 2014 it'll be even more exciting because it's taking place in Brazil, soccer's spiritual home. This handy guide to footballing's most unforgettable tournament contains everything you ever needed to know about World Cups past, present and future, with all the stats, facts and anecdotes at your fingertips. It includes lists of all the legendary players, classic matches and amazing goals from over the years, and provides expert predictions for Brazil 2014. This book is the ideal companion for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, and is an essential read for all fans of footy facts and trivia.
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Amazing World Cup Compendium written by Nick Brownlee and published by Portico. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated World Cup trivia book to capitalise on World Cup fever in 2010 Attractive and eye-catching gift book format The World Cup is footballing Nirvana - the ultimate global competition, where the world's greatest footballing nations battle it out as the world watches. The Amazing World Cup Compendium contains a wealth of illuminating and essential trivia on the facts and history of the World Cup. This is the perfect guide to everything about the competition: legendary players; great matches; goals and the personalities that have passed through the ages. The book is the ideal companion for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa and is a must-read for every fan of footy facts and trivia.
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Download or read book Sport Culture and the Media written by David Rowe and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewers’ comments on the first edition “Marks the coming of age of the academic study of media sport.” Media, Culture & Society “The book is extremely well-written – ideal as a student text, yet also at the forefront of innovation.” International Review of Cultural Studies “A thoroughly worthwhile read and an excellent addition to the growing literature on media sport” Sport, Education and Society Sport, Culture and the Media was the first book to analyse comprehensively two of the most powerful cultural forces of our times: sport and media. It examines the ways in which media sport has established itself in contemporary everyday life, and how sport and media have made themselves mutually dependent. This new edition examines the latest developments in sports media, including: Expanded material on new media sport and technology developments Updated coverage of political economy, including major changes in the ownership of sports broadcasting New scholarship and research on recent sports events like the Olympics and the World Cup, sports television and press, and theoretical developments in areas like globalisation and spectatorship. The first part of the book, “Making Media Sport”, traces the rise of the sports media and the ways in which broadcast and print sports texts are produced, the values and practices of those who produce them, and the economic and political influences on and implications of 'the media sports cultural complex'. The second part, “Unmaking the Media Sports Text”, concentrates on different media forms – television, still photography, news reporting, film, live commentary, creative sports writing and new media sports technologies.This is a key textbook for undergraduate studies in culture and media, sociology, sport and leisure studies, communication, race, ethnicity and gender.
Download or read book Motty s Year written by John Motson and published by Ebury Press. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Motson s diary of the football season will start in Northampton in August 2003 and take him around all 92 English football league grounds before culminating with England s attempt to win Euro 2004 in Portugal. The BBC s Premiership football highlights programme Match of the Day returns to our screens this August with Motty as lead commentator. John Motson has been a member of the Match of the Day team for nearly 30 years and is regarded by many as the voice of football. He has covered well over 1,000 matches for the BBC. Motty s Year will publish immediately after the final of Euro 2004 and will provide the first account of the tournament in which Europe s elite international teams compete for a prize that is second only to the World Cup.
Download or read book Objective Proficiency Student s Book Pack Student s Book with Answers with Downloadable Software and Class Audio CDs 2 written by Annette Capel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objective Proficiency Second edition provides Official Exam Preparation for Cambridge C2 Proficiency. Everything you need to be confident for exam day. A variety of challenging, lively topics provide thorough training in exam skills and high-level language development. Each unit contains three double-page lessons ensuring flexibility, even pacing and progress. This motivating material is also suitable for high-level students keen to improve their general English. The Class Audio CDs contain all the audio material for the listening exercises in the Student's Book. Interactive software, downloadable from a URL contained in the Student's Book, provides activities for practice of exam skills, grammar and vocabulary.
Download or read book The BBC Football Yearbook 2003 2004 written by John Motson and published by BBC Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BBC Football Yearbook 2003/2004is packed full of stats, pictures, and charts to give you all the facts about all four English leagues, every professional Scottish league, Italy's Series A, La Liga in Spain, and the German Bundesliga—plus all the league and player information from France, Holland, and Portugal. This book contains stats covering every area of the game, from a month-by-month breakdown of the previous season to a points system that ranks the European leagues in order of merit. Fully endorsed by stat guru John Motson, this yearbook is the only guide you'll ever need to the coming season.
Download or read book Bait written by Nick Brownlee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ex-Scotland Yard cop Jake Moore’s career was cut short by a bullet; ten years later, he runs a game fishing business that is about to go broke. But old habits die hard, and when cerebral Mombasa detective Daniel Jouma—seemingly the only good policeman in a city where corruption is king—asks for his help in solving a baffling murder case, the two men find themselves drawn into a deadly conspiracy involving local hoodlums, murderous ex-pats, and a mysterious and psychopathic kingpin who presides over a sickening trade in innocent human life. Set amid the five-star luxury and Third World squalor of Kenya’s east coast, Bait introduces a new and unique crime-busting double act, and sets Nick Brownlee apart as a hot new talent on the crime scene.
Download or read book Objective Proficiency Self study Student s Book written by Annette Capel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objective Proficiency contains twenty short units providing a wide range of challenging topics and offering lively yet systematic preparation for the Proficiency exam. Ten lessons focus on the Paper 3 summary task, building up appropriate skills gradually. Authentic language examples taken from the Cambridge International Corpus illustrate a wide range of real English usage. The course is written by experienced examiners who have an in-depth knowledge of the Proficiency exam, and contains material informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus which shows typical mistakes and areas of difficulty for candidates at Proficiency level.
Download or read book Maradona written by Diego Armando Maradona and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argentina history book about the controversial Diego Maradona A soccer biography for kids Follows the author’s journey from childhood to 1994 “Sometimes I think that my whole life is on film, that my whole life is in print. But it’s not like that. There are things which are only in my heart—that no one knows. At last I have decided to tell everything.” —Diego Maradona Diego Maradona went from a poor boy in a Buenos Aires shanty town to a genius with the soccer ball. He kicked his way to the top of South American, European, and world soccer, but his battles with the many pressures of life inside and outside the game consistently threatened to tear his legend and his spirit down. He is one of many famous soccer players, but one of only a few to write their own soccer autobiography. Villain or hero, one thing about Maradona is clear: he was the best soccer player of his generation and possibly of all time. He has never shared his remarkable story in his own words—until this autobiography. From his poverty-stricken origins to his greatest successes on the field, Maradona remembers, with frankness and insight, the most impactful moments of his life. These include the pressures of being a child prodigy, the infamous semi-final game against England in the 1986 World Cup, an amazing turn-around and the dream-turned-sour at Napoli, and the disgrace and shame of his positive drug test at USA 1994. In this brutally honest autobiography, readers glimpse the inner thoughts of one of the most controversial, talented, and complex professional athletes of the times. He was a man divided between the demands of his corporate club bosses, the media, the fans, and his own tempestuous personal life. With a new epilogue that updates Maradona’s amazing story and includes over 80 delightful photographs, Maradona is a confessional, a revelation, an apology, and a celebration.
