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Book The Daily Telegraph Century of Sport

Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Century of Sport written by David Welch and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Daily Telegraph Century of Sport 1999

Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Century of Sport 1999 written by Daily Telegraph and published by . This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Daily Telegraph Football Chronicle

Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Football Chronicle written by Norman S. Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Daily Telegraph Football Chronicle provides an authoritative and compelling account of the history of the world's most popular sport from the origins of the modern game in the 1860s to the present day. Presented in a page-by-page, chronological format and written from the British perspective, it includes articles on all the notable football stories of the twentieth century, together with key soccer statistics, memorable quotes and the rest of the football news in brief. A special spread is allocated to each World Cup tournament and the year-by-year reportage is also interspersed with special feature spreads on the leading characters and milestone events of the history of football.

Book Telegraph Complete History of British Football

Download or read book Telegraph Complete History of British Football written by Norman Barrett and published by Carlton Books. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of the history of the world's most popular sport from the origins of the modern game onwards. Set out in a season-by-season, chronological format and written from the British perspective, this title includes articles on all the notable football stories of the last one and half centuries, together with key soccer statistics.

Book International Sport

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard William Cox
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0714652601
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book International Sport written by Richard William Cox and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been an explosion in the quantity of sports history literature published in recent years, making it increasingly difficult to keep abreast of developments. The annual number of publications has increased from around 250 to 1,000 a year over the last decade. This is due in part to the fact that during the late 1980s and 90s, many clubs, leagues and governing bodies of sport have celebrated their centenaries and produced histories to mark this occasion and commemorate their achievements. It is also the result of the growing popularity and realisation of the importance of sport history research within academe. This international bibliography of books, articles, conference proceedings and essays in the English language is a one-stop for the sports historian to know what is new.

Book The Spirit of the Game

Download or read book The Spirit of the Game written by Mihir Bose and published by Constable. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spirit of the game was first nurtured on the playing fields of the English public school, and in the pages of Tom Brown's Schooldays- this Corinthian spirit was then exported around the world. The competitive spirit, the importance of fairness, the nobility of the gifted amateur seemed to sum up everything that was good about Britishness and the games they played. Today, sport is dominated by corruption, money, celebrity and players who are willing to dive in the box if it wins them a penalty. Yet, we still believe and talk about the game as if it had a higher moral purpose. Since the age of Thomas Arnold, Sport has been used to glorify dictatorships and was at the heart of cold war diplomacy. Prime Ministers, princes and presidents will do whatever they can to ensure that their country holds a major sporting tournament. Nelson Mandela saw the victory of the Rugby World Cup as essential to his hopes for the Rainbow Nation. Mihir Bose has lived his life around sport and in this book he tells the story of how Sport has lost its original spirit and how it has emerged in the 20th century to become the most powerful political tool in the world. With examples and stories from around the world including how the sport-hating Thomas Arnold become an icon; how a German manufacturer gave Jessie Owens a pair of shoes at the Berlin games of 1936 and went on to dominate the world of sport; how India stole cricket from the ICC; how an Essex car dealer become the most powerful man in Formula 1; and who really sold football out. Praise for Mihir Bose: 'Mihir Bose is India's CLR James.' Simon Barnes, The Times. 'Mihir's insider knowledge is unsurpassed' David Welch. 'His Olympic contacts are second to none. He knows everybody.' Sue Mott.

Book The Daily Telegraph Book of Sports Obituaries

Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Book of Sports Obituaries written by Martin Smith and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the TELEGRAPH OBITUARIES series, this comprises a collection of sporting greats who played, competed and died in the 20th century: heroes such as Bill Shankly, Denis Compton, James Hunt, Fred Perry, Kitty Godfree and many more. Together they reflect and reveal the events that have shaped the last 100 years.

Book The Age of Football  Soccer and the 21st Century

Download or read book The Age of Football Soccer and the 21st Century written by David Goldblatt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental exploration of soccer and society in our time—by its preeminent historian. The Age of Football proves that whether you call it football or soccer, you can’t make sense of the modern world without understanding its most popular sport. With breathtaking scope and an unparalleled knowledge of the game, David Goldblatt—author of the best-selling The Ball Is Round—charts soccer’s global cultural ascent, economic transformation, and deep politicization.

Book A History of Sports Coaching in Britain

Download or read book A History of Sports Coaching in Britain written by Dave Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the London Olympics in 2012 Team GB achieved a third place finish in the medals table. A key factor in this achievement was the high standard of contemporary British sports coaching. But how has British sports coaching transitioned from the amateur to the professional, and what can the hitherto under-explored history of sports coaching in Britain tell us about both the early history of sport and about contemporary coaching practice? A History of Sports Coaching in Britain is the first book to attempt to examine the history of British sports coaching, from its amateur roots in the deep nineteenth century to the high performance, high status professional coaching cultures of today. The book draws on original primary source material, including the lost coaching lives of key individuals in British coaching, to trace the development of coaching in Britain. It assesses the continuing impact of the nineteenth-century amateur ethos throughout the twentieth century, and includes important comparisons with developments in international coaching, particularly in North America and the Eastern Bloc. The book also explores the politicisation of sport and the complicated interplay between politics and coaching practice, and illuminates the origins of the structures, organisations and philosophies that surround performance sport in Britain today. This book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the history of sport, sports coaching, sports development, or the relationships between sport and wider society.

Book Mental Toughness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Sheard
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-08-21
  • ISBN : 1136245235
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Mental Toughness written by Michael Sheard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental toughness is one of the most common terms used in sport – by athletes, coaches, spectators and the media. However, it is also one of the least understood terms. This book examines the characteristics and development of mentally tough sport performers, and presents the cutting-edge research in this area. Within these chapters, the author proposes that mental toughness is a personality style and mindset, and presents a compelling case for its inclusion within the positive psychological paradigm. This second edition has been updated to include new material on the characterisation, conceptualisation, measurement, and development of mental toughness. As in the first edition the book includes a historical overview of empirical research, and also describes the conceptual arguments behind this research. Now packed with even more rigorous scientific evidence and bang up-to-date anecdotes from the world of sport, the book presents a fascinating explanation of why some athletes are successful, and how and why they stay on top. Mental Toughness: The Mindset Behind Sporting Achievement will be essential reading for all sport psychology, sport science, sport studies, and coaching students.

Book The Daily Telegraph Sports Annual

Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Sports Annual written by Daily Telegraph Staff and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the British Sporting Journalist  c 1850 1939

Download or read book A History of the British Sporting Journalist c 1850 1939 written by Stephen Tate and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of this text strides James Catton, less than five feet tall but a giant in the field of sporting journalism. It is the story of his career, from boy reporter in 1870s Lancashire to editor of the influential Manchester-based weekly Athletic News and then grand old man of Fleet Street sports writing in the 1920s and ’30s. The book also presents the story of others, too—the first journalists to turn action into news as raw, carnivalesque, violent pastimes were replaced by codified and commercialised games. Detailing the history of their trade, the book searches for the roots of sports journalism, pushing, for the first time, the newspaper reporter to the foreground in the shared history of the press and sport. Editorial recruitment, training, writing styles, pay, status, rivalry and camaraderie, technology, celebrity, the press box, the player-reporter and drinking culture are all examined, as are the values men like Catton claimed sport, at its best, represented.

Book Sport In History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey Hill
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2010-11-22
  • ISBN : 1350307076
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Sport In History written by Jeffrey Hill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging analysis of the key themes and developments in sports history provides an accessible introduction to the topic. The book examines sports history on a global scale, exploring the relationship between sports history and topics such as modernization, globalization, identity, gender and the media.

Book Amateurs and Professionals in Post War British Sport

Download or read book Amateurs and Professionals in Post War British Sport written by Dilwyn Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports. At the end of the 20th century sports have been packaged and marketed as mass entertainment for a national or even international audience. This volume explores different facets of this phenomenon.

Book The Daily Telegraph Football Years

Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Football Years written by Norman Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of football as it happenedrevised and expanded to include the 2007-2008football season.All of football?s major incidents are coveredfrom famous victories and major incidents to politics,scandals and tragedies.Now in its sixth edition, Football Years has sold morethan 160,000 copies in the UK trade as well as beingtranslated into many foreign languages.Prominent Daily Telegraph imprimatur: The DailyTelegraph has a daily circulation of almost 900,000and a daily readership of over 2.3 million.

Book The emergence of footballing cultures

Download or read book The emergence of footballing cultures written by Gary James and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Manchester football, by leading football historian Gary James, considers the sport’s emergence, development and establishment through to its position as the city’s leading team sport. The period from 1840 to 1919 saw football in Manchester develop from an inconsequential, occasionally outlawed activity, into a major business with a variety of popular football clubs and supporting industry. This book makes a distinct and original contribution to the historiography of sport. It is the first academic study into the development of association football in Manchester, and is directly linked to the current state of knowledge and debates within sports history on football’s origins. It adds regional focus to inform the wider debate, contextualising the growth of the sport in the city and identifies communities who propagated and developed football. Robust research should ensure that this becomes the benchmark study of regional football.

Book The History of Opposition to Blood Sports in Twentieth Century England

Download or read book The History of Opposition to Blood Sports in Twentieth Century England written by Michael Tichelar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary social history, this book examines the major pressures and influences that brought about the remarkable growth of opposition to hunting in twentieth century England. With public opinion consistently deciding from the middle of the century onward that hunting mammals for sport was cruel and unacceptable, it would appear that the controversy over hunting has all but been decided, though hunting yet remains ‘at bay’. Based on a range of cultural, social, literary and political sources drawn from a variety of academic disciplines, including history, sociology, geography, psychology and anthropology, The History of Opposition to Blood Sports in Twentieth Century England accounts for the change in our relationship with animals that occurred in the course of the twentieth century, shedding light on the manner in which this resulted in the growth in opposition to hunting and other blood sports. With evidence comprising a mixture of primary and secondary historical sources, together with documentary films, opinion polls, Mass Observation records, political party archives, and the findings of sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and geographers, this book will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences and historians with an interest in human–animal relations.