Download or read book Stoke City Match of My Life written by Simon Lowe and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen Stoke legends tell the stories behind their favourite games. Terry Conroy relives the moment his header opened the scoring in City's 1972 League Cup Final. Mark Stein remembers another Wembley win in the 1992 Autoglass Trophy. Denis Smith recalls when Stoke took on the best in Europe and came so close to beating the mighty Ajax, while Peter Fox takes the unusual step of selecting a game in which he only played half an hour. Legends Dennis Herod, Tony Allen and Mark Chamberlain also relive their finest games in the famous red and white stripes. Stoke City Match of My Life will delight Potters fans as they relive these magic moments through the eyes of the men who made them happen.Key features- Part of the popular and successful Cult Heroes series which features a number of football clubs- Features sixteen of Stoke City's greatest names, reflecting on their most memorable match for the club- Also details those players' cherished memories from their time with the club, the players they played with and the managers they served- Includes contemporary and historic images from the legendary matches covered- Written by respected football writer Simon Lowe; a well-known Midlands-based football historian and author, with over 15 published books to his name

Download or read book The Stoke City Miscellany written by David Clayton and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stoke City Miscellany - a book on the club like no other, packed with facts, stats, trivia, stories and legend. Now, with the club tasting previously uncharted highs, look back at what has made this club what it is today - the players and characters that have represented City over the years and the events that have shaped the club. If you want to know the record crowd for a home game, the record appearance holder or longest-serving manager, look no further - this is the book you've been waiting for. From record goal scorers to record defeats; from the Victoria Ground to Alan Ball and from Rory Delap to Gordon Banks - it's all in The Stoke City Miscellany - can you afford not to own a copy?

Download or read book Walsall FC Match of My Life written by Simon Turner and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen Walsall legends tell the stories behind their most memorable games for the club, enabling fans of all ages to relive these magic moments through the eyes and emotions of the men who were there. Stretching from Allan Clarke's memories of FA Cup glory to Adam Chambers's account of how Walsall finally reached Wembley after almost a century of trying, this unique collection covers some of the most enthralling encounters in the club's history. Along the way, Alan Buckley tells of how the mighty Saddlers conquered Manchester United, Peter Hart and Craig Shakespeare recall how Arsenal and Liverpool trembled as Walsall came within a hair's breadth of reaching the Milk Cup Final, David Kelly returns to the afternoon when his hat-trick won a play-off final, while Chris Marsh and Adi Viveash look back on the day Walsall pipped Manchester City to promotion. Spanning half a century of Saddlers history, Walsall FC Match of My Life captures the precious memories of the heroes who mean so much to the fans.

Download or read book Sheffield United Match of My Life written by Nick Johnson and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2012-10-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve legends of Sheffield United reflect on their most memorable games for the club. With contributions from Tony Currie, Keith Edwards, Brian Deane, Phil Jagielka and other names from the Blades' past, recalling promotion-clinching game and epic cup victories, Match of My Life is an evocative look at some great games from the Blades' history.Key features- Part of the popular and successful Match of My Life series which features a number of football clubs- Features twelve of Sheffield United's greatest names, reflecting on their most memorable match for the club- Also details those players' cherished memories from their time with the club, the players they played with and the managers they served- Includes contemporary and historic images from the legendary matches covered- Written by respected football historian, writer and author Nick Johnson

Download or read book Sunderland AFC Match of My Life written by Rob Mason and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2012-10-13 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunderland AFC Match of My Life sees a dozen all-time greats re-live the game that stands out for them in their Sunderland careers. Jim Montgomery chooses the 1973 FA Cup final where he made the greatest save ever seen at Wembley while Niall Quinn also selects a great game from beneath the old twin towers, the sensational 1998 play-off final where Sunderland scored ten times and still somehow lost. With further contributions from Charlie Huntley, Len Ashurst, Gary Bennett, Kevin Ball and others from the club's past, Match of My Life is an evocative look back at some great games in Sunderland's history.Key features- Part of the popular and successful Match of My Life series which features a number of football clubs- Features twelve of Sunderland's greatest names, reflecting on their most memorable match for the club- Also details those players' cherished memories from their time with the club, the players they played with and the managers they served- Includes contemporary and historic images from the legendary matches covered- Written by Sunderland programme editor Rob Mason. He has written several books on the club, including Cult Heroes, Match of My Life, Greatest Games

Download or read book Arsenal Match of My Life written by Alex Crook and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gunners greats from David Seaman to Bob Wilson and Theo Walcott to Charlie George take us behind the dressing-room door, enabling fans of all ages to relive these amazing memories through the eyes and emotions of the men who were there, pulling on the famous red-and-white shirts. Contained in these pages are previously untold stories from fan favourites including Ray Parlour on winning the Premier League title at Old Trafford and scoring the winner in the FA Cup Final in the space of just four days and what Arsene Wenger did to transform the club. Lee Dixon reveals how he and his team-mates toasted their remarkable last-gasp 1989 title win at Anfield by swigging Kenny Dalglish's champagne while George Graham offers a rare look back at his amazing Highbury career as both player and manager. Double winners Frank McLintock and George also relive the never-to-be-forgotten 1970/71 season and super-fan Piers Morgan offers a unique account of following Arsene Wenger's Invincibles.

Download or read book Walk On My Life in Red written by Ronnie Whelan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronnie Whelan was a mainstay of the iconic 1980s Liverpool FC side that won six League Championships, two FA Cups, three League Cups as well an unforgettable European Cup. Under the management of Kenny Dalglish, Whelan and his club team mates, including Alan Hansen, John Barnes and Bruce Grobbelaar, formed one of the finest club sides in English football history - a side that is dear to the hearts of Liverpool fans to this day. It was also, though, a time of great tragedy; when the twin disasters of Heysel and Hillsborough devastated the club and its supporters. In this frank and full-hearted autobiography, Ronnie Whelan tells the story of the good and the bad times at the club, as well as his international career with Ireland.

Download or read book Twinned With Reykjavik written by Liam Bullock and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period leading up to 1999 had been grim for Stoke City fans - relegation, stagnation, embarrassment and board conflicts were commonplace at the club. As the new millennium approached, fans demanded change, but no one could have predicted what would come next. An Icelandic consortium, brought together by GuA(deg)jon AzorA(deg)arson, set sail for the Potteries with the promise of exciting foreign imports and Premier League football. What followed was a mixture of flashy arrivals, cup successes, broken curses, flop signings and plenty of fallouts, with extraordinary on-field moments along the way. Cult heroes and villains were made as Stoke became a living soap opera for seven remarkable years. Twinned with Reykjavik lifts the lid on that rollercoaster ride with the views of the people who experienced the wild journey. Integral players and fans look back on the key moments that defined the era as the book ponders that vital question: was the Icelandic takeover actually a success for Stoke City?

Download or read book City Till I Die written by Johnny Potter and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows my journey from 1970-1980, growing up following my beloved Stoke City. During this decade in the history of our football club, we achieved highs and lows of unbelievable proportions. As every Stoke fan knows only too well, our club never does anything in half measures. If you wish to share in some of the triumphs and tragedies of Stoke City and its famous, and sometimes infamous supporters, during the 1970s, then this is the book for you. As always, with Stoke City, the journey is a tidal wave of emotions. That though, is part of the deal when following the famous red and white stripes. Those afore-mentioned supporters have often been labelled unique in their influence over the team.Whilst the behaviour of Stoke fans has been questioned many times, I believe their loyalty is without equal in football circles. We Stokies typically wear our hearts on our sleeves, but it is that emotional bond that ties us to the club with such special effect. So for just a short while, leave these heady days of the Premier League, and come back and see what made it so important that we finally got there.

Download or read book Attached to Coventry City written by James Adams and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would a normal teenager throw his heart and soul into an average Third Division football club for almost a decade, only to walk away from them at the height of their success? After abandoning that club for 20 years, what would cause him to rekindle his passion in a conversion-like experience, and then stick with the club for the rest of his life? The answers lie in the psychology of attachment. This is the story of James Adams and his support of Coventry City, from the days of Billy Frith to Mark Robins. It's an account that delves into the crucial yet poorly understood psychological aspects of football fandom to uncover truths that every football fan can relate to. Join James on a rollercoaster ride as he asks important questions of himself and his life alongside a backdrop of footballing highs and lows, including three Wembley victories and four promotions, as well as FA Cup debacles for the Sky Blues. Attached to Coventry City is a highly personal, honest and reflective account of the unusual story of a lifelong football fan.

Download or read book Marvellous Neil Baldwin My Story written by Neil Baldwin and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BISHOPS AND ARCHBISHOPS, TOP FOOTBALLERS, POLITICIANS AND ACTORS... THEY ALL COUNT HIM AS THEIR FRIEND. PRIME MINISTERS AND SENIOR ROYALS STOP AND LISTEN TO HIS OPINIONS. HE’S GOT AN HONORARY DEGREE AND HIS VERY OWN FOOTBALL CLUB. HE HAS EVEN BEEN ON TV BUT WHO IS NEIL BALDWIN? As a boy in a working-class part of the Potteries in the fifties and sixties, the education system wrote him off. But Neil, who believes you can just ‘get things by asking for them’, knows his late Mum wanted him to have a happy life, and it’s his duty to her to have one. So he does. At Keele University, they hold regular celebrations and services for the decades he’s been a friend to the students, academics and vice-chancellors; but he’s never been a student, a teacher, or had any formal connection with the place. At Stoke City Football Club, he’s ‘more famous than the players’. He’s even got a dialogue going with the queen - though that one’s still a little one-sided. This is the inspiring, moving and at times hysterically funny story of Neil Baldwin’s marvellous life. ’You don’t feel sorry for Neil Baldwin, you want to be like him.’ - Gary Linekar ’My best-ever signing’ - Lou Macari

Download or read book Chicharito The Biography of Javier Hernandez written by Frank Worrall and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Javier Hernandez - better known to legions of Manchester United fans as Chicharito - is one of the most exciting young talents in football today.Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Hernandez joined his local club C D Guadalajara at the age of nine and signed his first contract at 15. Making his full debut in 2006, he impressed in the Mexican league so much that he caught the eye of a Manchester United scout in 2009. He signed for United on 8 April 2010 and scored on his debut in the MLS All-Star Game on 28 July. Since then, Hernandez has continued to light up the Old Trafford pitch, becoming a firm favourite with fans (who voted him Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year in 2011) and scoring vital goals for the club. He became the first player since Ruud van Nistelrooy to score more than 20 goals in his debut season as United clinched a record-equalling 19th Premier League title, and despite some injury concerns in the opening half of the 2011/12 season, he has continued to be a major player for United. Still only 24 years old, the 'little pea' has committed himself to United until 2016 and looks set to help the Reds to yet more glory. This is his fascinating story.

Download or read book And She Laughed No More written by Stephen Foster and published by Short Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Premiership is not all glamour, particularly not now Stoke City - the ugly ducklings - are involved...In 2008, Stoke City managed to grind their way into the Promised Land of the Premiership. Under the uncompromising guidance of manager Tony Pulis, they were never going to be pretty to watch. Lifetime Stoke supporter Stephen Foster describes a club with a chip on its brawny shoulders, whose tactics were built around heroic defiance of superstars earning 150 grand a week - and, of course, Rory Delap's long throw. And She Laughed No More, the sequel to Foster's bestselling She Stood There Laughing, chronicles the blood, sweat, tears and triumphs of an unlikely season when the Potters were rescued from their lower league nightmare and transported to the Theatre of Dreams at Old Trafford (where they lost 5-0).

Download or read book EA Sports FIFA written by Raiford Guins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is anything close to a universal game, it is association football, also known as soccer, football, fussball, fútbol, fitba, and futebol. The game has now moved from the physical to the digital - EA's football simulation series FIFA - with profound impacts on the multibillion sports and digital game industries, their cultures and players. Throughout its development history, EA's FIFA has managed to adapt to and adopt almost all video game industry trends, becoming an assemblage of game types and technologies that is in itself a multi-faceted probe of the medium's culture, history, and technology. EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game is the first scholarly book to address the importance of EA's FIFA. From looking at the cultures of fandom to analyzing the technical elements of the sports simulation, and covering the complicated relations that EA's FIFA has with gender, embodiment, and masculinity, this collection provides a comprehensive understanding of a video game series that is changing the way the most popular sport in the world is experienced. In doing so, the book serves as a reference text for scholars in many disciplines, including game studies, sociology of sports, history of games, and sports research.

Download or read book The Way It Was written by Stanley Matthews and published by Canelo + ORM. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic football memoir, now available as an ebook ‘An absolute magical player. I loved him’ Sir Bobby Charlton ‘A god to those of us who aspired to play the game’ Brian Clough ‘The man who taught us the way football should be played’ Pelé Sir Stanley Matthews was the most popular footballer of his era and the game’s first global superstar. He was the first footballer to be knighted, the first European Footballer of the Year (aged 41), and he played in the top division until he was 50. His performance in the ‘Matthews final’ of 1953, when he inspired Blackpool to victory over Bolton, is widely considered the finest in FA Cup history. Here, in his own words, and showcasing his unique humour, is a sporting gentleman who epitomised a generation of legendary players: Sir Tom Finney, Nat Lofthouse, Billy Wright and many more. The Way It Was: My Autobiography is filled with characters, camaraderie, drama and insight, and is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how football, and society, have changed over the last century. It is a fascinating memoir of a great footballer, and the remarkable story of an extraordinary life. Praise for The Way it Was ‘A ticket to a different era, when the game wasn't saturated with money and men like Sir Stanley upheld sporting ideals’ The Times ‘There is a heartfelt, elegiac quality [to] The Way It Was... it is only a pity he is not here to see it published’ Independent ‘Brings vividly to life some of the greatest games of the time and features his perceptive analysis of the characters who illuminated the age’ Independent ‘A gracefully crafted autobiography filled with entertaining anecdotes reflecting an age when the game was uncorrupted by greed’ Birmingham Post ‘A fascinating and amusing insight into the inner workings of football during its golden era’ Daily Telegraph ‘It is impossible to imagine any of today’s football stars ever producing a memoir half so interesting’ Mail on Sunday

Download or read book The Man Who Couldn t Stop written by David Adam and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sunday Times Bestseller Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building, or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this captivating fusion of science, history and personal memoir, writer David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind, and how they drive millions of us towards obsessions and compulsions. 'One of the best and most readable studies of a mental illness to have emerged in recent years . . . an honest and open and, yes, maybe life-changing work' – Matt Haig, Observer Told with fierce clarity, humour and urgent lyricism, this extraordinary book is both the haunting story of a personal nightmare, and a fascinating doorway into the darkest corners of our minds. David has suffered from obsessive compulsive disoder (OCD) for twenty years, and The Man Who Couldn't Stop is his unflinchingly honest attempt to understand the condition and his experiences. What might lead an Ethiopian schoolgirl to eat a wall of her house, piece by piece; or a pair of brothers to die beneath an avalanche of household junk that they had compulsively hoarded? At what point does a harmless idea, a snowflake in a clear summer sky, become a blinding blizzard of unwanted thoughts? Drawing on the latest research on the brain, as well as historical accounts of patients and their treatments, this is a book that will challenge the way you think about what is normal, and what is mental illness.

Download or read book Hardcore written by Michael Lutwyche and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s Aston Villa Hardcore has been arguably the most prolific football hooligan gangs in the UK. Described by the police and press as one of the worst two hooligan firms on the England international scene. There are currently 80 Villa Hardcore members subject to football banning orders and sentences totalling over 80 years have been handed out to participants in a series of high profile incidents.Gang member Michael Lutwyche reveals how Villa Hardcore - led by Category C football hooligan Steven Fowler - became one of the most highly organised and notorious football hooligan gangs in the country. Known to police forces the world over Fowler first came to the notice of the world media when he was thrown out of France during the World Cup in 1998. He is now subject to one of the longest banning orders in British football.