Download or read book Game Of Three Halves written by Brian Beard and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Game Of Three Halves is the official biography of Kenny Swain. It tells the tale of the man who quit teaching to sign for Chelsea, the glamour club of the 1970s, and then moved on to Aston Villa where - having converted from striker to a full-back role - he played his part in winning the First Division championship and the European Cup. Next, Kenny was signed by Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest, and he now paints an evocative personal picture of the most charismatic and controversial manager in English football history. Portsmouth and Crewe were the last clubs to figure in an illustrious career that saw him play more than 100 games for five different clubs. Today, Kenny works in the England set-up, heading up the FA's talent ID programme, and has helped develop players such as Michael Owen, Joe Cole and Danny Welbeck.
Download or read book A Game of Three Halves written by Dennis Shaw and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word ‘unique’ is often wrongly used but, in the case of A Game of THREE Halves, the author’s story is indisputably one of a kind. No other writer has worked on the inside for both Aston Villa and Birmingham City while keeping an eye on local and national footballing affairs for more than seventy years. During that period he met, and sometimes worked with, many of the best-known personalities in world football: from Pele to Cruyyff, Busby to Ferguson, Matthews to Cullis, Wright to Banks, Hill to Coleman, Saunders to Atkinson, Best to Francis, and many more. From war-time football to the present day, across eight decades, football has changed so much that not even the ball, apart from still being spherical, is the same as before. The fight to remove the maximum wage, the initially steady and ultimately explosive growth in pay, the arrival and development of European football, the curse of the hooligan, the introduction of the Premier League. A flavour of these developments can be found in these pages. This is not an anorak’s football history, but a lively collection of real-life anecdotal memories laced with controversial personal comment. The object of the exercise is simply to be a ‘good read’ while hopefully introducing a touch of football and social history. Here can be found such unlikely characters as an armed robber, an exorcist, some terrified sky divers, half a moustache that ‘went missing’, a factual hungover ‘Biggles’ and a shoot-to-kill former iron curtain guard. This is a look at football like no other.
Download or read book Football s Strangest Matches written by Andrew Ward and published by Portico. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘It’s a funny old game.’ The world’s favourite sport has certainly given us its fair share of strange moments, and this absorbing collection gathers together the best of them, from more than a century of the beautiful game. From Blackburn Rovers’ one-man team to Wilfred Minter’s seven-goal haul in which he still ended up on the losing side, here are goals and gaffes galore drawn from all levels of the footballing world, whether high-profile internationals or the lowest tiers of domestic football. The stories in this book are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious, and, most importantly, true. Revised, redesigned and updated for a new generation of football fanatics, this book is the perfect gift for the soccer obsessive in your life. Word count: 45,000 words
Download or read book The Victorian Football Miscellany written by Paul Brown and published by Superelastic. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian Football Miscellany is a quirky and fascinating collection of trivia, facts and anecdotes from football’s earliest years. Delve into an absorbing world of ox-bladder balls, baggy-kneed knickerbockers and outstanding moustaches, and read remarkable tales of the first ever cup final, the invention of the shinpad, the evolution of dribbling, the first own goal and a seemingly-invincible penalty-taking elephant. Other entries cover the foundation of the Football Association, the development of the Laws of the Game and the origins of football’s most popular clubs. Packed with stories, profiles and lists, this is an indispensable guide to the colourful and unusual world of 19th century football.
Download or read book Denied Promotion By A Tree written by Les Scott and published by Aureus Publishing Limited. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know the only English league club not obliged to change their strip in the event of a colour clash? The four Bolton Wanderers players who played for Brazil during the 1966 World Cup? The team which, in 2020, contained five players whose name was the same as the club they played for? How about the only English league club never to have played a game on their home ground? Or, the player who scored with a header from his own cross? You can find the answers, along with over 5,000 other amazing and little known football facts in ‘Denied Promotion By A Tree’, the definitive football fact book that will entertain, inform and be a talking point for football fans of all persuasions. There is no place for the common-place in ‘Denied Promotion By A Tree’. Every current and former English/Welsh and Scottish club is mentioned at least twice. There are multiple entries relating to most clubs, so, plenty of amazing facts about the club(s) which you cover. Discover the only club (British) to have played both legs of a European tie at home. The two team mates who left Port Vale, one to manage Juventus, the other, Real Madrid. The club drawn away from home in 19 successive Scottish FA Cup ties and...the club denied promotion by a tree. Packed with images of football memorabilia relating to the entries, this is a book which captures the spirit of affection and belonging keenly felt by all lovers of football.
Download or read book Time Transfer written by Mark Roland Langdale and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s hard to pinpoint the exact date the magic appeared in the FA Cup. Perhaps it was there from the beginning when the very first ball was kicked, or perhaps it first appeared in 1923 – the year the final was first played at Wembley, known then as the Empire Stadium. Just as the Premier and Champions Leagues were battling it out for the top spot, the magic disappeared, much to the fans disappointment. Can the Football Association bring the magic back to the cup, or will they be powerless to act to restore the magic, like old wizards who no longer possess the magic touch?
Download or read book The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Athletics and Football written by Montague Shearman and published by London : Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1889 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bouve collection.
Download or read book Amazing Extraordinary Facts Football written by Anton Rippon and published by David and Charles. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Football explores some of the most bizarre football events throughout history, from its birth during the Industrial Revolution, to the major tournaments of the Beautiful Game in the 21st century. From the player sold for £10 and a box of kippers, to unusual injuries on the pitch, this book gathers some of the most curious moments of footballing history, a game that continues to be both an amazing entertainment spectacle and extraordinarily accessible to people everywhere. Brief, accessible and entertaining pieces on a wide variety of subjects makes it the perfect book to dip in to. The amazing and extraordinary facts series presents interesting, surprising and little-known facts and stories about a wide range of topics which are guaranteed to inform, absorb and entertain in equal measure.
Download or read book Athletics and Football with a Contribution on Paper chasing written by Montague Shearman and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hidden Mathematics of Sport written by Rob Eastaway and published by Portico. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book explores the mathematics involved in all your favourite sports. The Hidden Mathematics of Sport takes a unique and fascinating look at sport by exploring the mathematics behind the action. You'll discover the best tactics for taking a penalty, the pros and cons of being a consistent golfer, the surprising connection between American football and cricket, the quirky history of league tables, the unusual location of England's earliest 'football' matches and how to avoid marathon tennis matches. Whatever your sporting interests, from boxing to figure skating, from rugby to horse racing, you will find plenty to absorb and amuse you in this insightful book. Word count: 35,000 words
Download or read book Tank Girl Gold 2 written by Alan Martin and published by Titan. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There may be no 'I¡¯ in team but there¡¯s certainly a 'U¡¯ in onslaught! Break out your jock straps and crash helmets, folks; we¡¯re going full contact for the TANK GIRL GOLD SUPER SPORTS SPECIAL!!
Download or read book Considering Grace written by Gladys Ganiel and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2019-09-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering Grace records the deeply moving stories of 120 ordinary people’s experiences of the Troubles, exploring how faith shaped their responses to violence and its aftermath. Presbyterian ministers, victims, members of the security forces, those affected by loyalist paramilitarism, ex-combatants, emergency responders and health-care workers, peacemakers, politicians, people who left Presbyterianism and ‘critical friends’ of the Presbyterian tradition provide insights on wider human experiences of anger, pain, healing, and forgiveness. The first book to capture such a full range of experiences of the Troubles of people from a Protestant background, it also includes the perspectives of women and people from border counties and features leading public figures, such as former Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon of the SDLP, Jeffrey Donaldson of the DUP, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, and former Victims Commissioner Bertha McDougall. Considering Grace contributes to the process of ‘dealing with the past’ by pointing towards the need for a ‘gracious remembering’ that acknowledges suffering, is self-critical about the past, and creates space for lament, but also for the future.
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Download or read book Assessing Rational Expectations 2 written by Roger Guesnerie and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-02-18 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretical assessment of the Rational Expectations Hypothesis through subjecting a collection of economic models to an "eductive stability" test. The rational expectations hypothesis (REH) dominates economic modeling in areas ranging from monetary theory, macroeconomics, and general equilibrium to finance. In this book, Roger Guesnerie continues the critical analysis of the REH begun in his Assessing Rational Expectations: Sunspot Multiplicity and Economic Fluctuations, which dealt with the questions raised by multiplicity and its implications for a theory of endogenous fluctuations. This second volume emphasizes "eductive" learning: relying on careful reasoning, agents must deduce what other agents guess, a process that differs from the standard evolutionary learning experience in which agents make decisions about the future based on past experiences. A broad "eductive" stability test is proposed that includes common knowledge and results in a unique "rationalizable expectations equilibrium." This test provides the basis for Guesnerie's theoretical assessment of the plausibility of the REH's expectational coordination, emphasizing, for different categories of economic models, conditions for the REH's success or failure. Guesnerie begins by presenting the concepts and methods of the eductive stability analysis in selected partial equilibrium models. He then explores to what extent general equilibrium strategic complementarities interfere with partial equilibrium considerations in the formation of stable expectations. Guesnerie next examines two issues relating to eductive stability in financial market models, speculation and asymmetric price information. The dynamic settings of an infinite horizon model are then taken up, and particular standard and generalized saddle-path solutions are scrutinized. Guesnerie concludes with a review of general questions and some "cautious" remarks on the policy implications of his analysis.
Download or read book Corporate Insolvency Law written by Vanessa Finch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and substantially revised edition which looks critically at the broad effect and conceptual underpinnings of corporate insolvency law.
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