Download or read book Southend Made Me written by C. Webster and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-06-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up has never been so much fun! Join the writer on an exploration of his childhood in the Fifties and Sixties

Download or read book My Life written by Andrew Godsell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique autobiography. As he enjoyed his first fifteen minutes of fame, with the publication of two acclaimed books, Andrew Godsell decided to tell the story behind their appearance. "My Life" sets the writing of "A History of the Conservative Party" and "The World Cup" within a rich tapestry of experiences, with engaging honesty and humour. Nostalgic recollections of childhood give way to the demands of the adult world, as a career in international finance is juggled with literary pursuits, and political activism. Andrew's passion for football is reflected in accounts of matches he attended - including the 1985 FA Cup Final and numerous World Cup ties. He recalls being interviewed by Rob Bonnet for the BBC, at the 1990 World Cup finals, plus meetings with George Best and Bobby Robson. Participation in both general and local elections lead to a controversial clash with a Conservative Member of Parliament.

Download or read book Claret and Blue Blood written by Ben Sharratt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the World Cup-winning days of Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters to highly acclaimed modern-day heroes such as Joe Cole, Michael Carrick and Jermain Defoe, West Ham United supporters have always had the greatest affection for homegrown Hammers. Since the 1960s, talents such as Trevor Brooking, Tony Cottee, Paul Ince and Rio Ferdinand (who has twice hit the headlines as the world's most expensive defender following his move to Leeds and Manchester United) have been nurtured and brought through the club's ranks, ensuring the Hammers can rightly lay claim to having one of the country's most fruitful youth policies. In this revised and fully updated paperback edition, Claret and Blue Blood brings together all these characters and others for the very first time, including new chapters on Anton Ferdinand, Stephen Bywater and Kevin Horlock. Using exclusive new interviews, the authors present biographical pieces that collectively tell the story of West Ham United's evolution over the last half-century. Focusing on each player's roots, development and personal achievements, Claret and Blue Blood is a unique book that features key characters, candid conversations, successes, failures and controversies as it explores the very essence of West Ham United.

Download or read book I ll Take That One written by William B Green and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography that takes an in depth look at how evacuees were treated in WW2. Shows the chaos of the evacuee system at the start of the war. A story which vividly explores the loneliness and fear of being an evacuee. The Second World War was a global cataclysm that resulted in the death of more than 60 million people. In 1940 at the onset of this grim period in history, a young boy begins his own journey; one that irrevocably changes the course of his life. In this poignant memoir, the author shares a rare glimpse into what it was like growing up and living during this era. The memoir begins, at the outbreak of the Second World War, with the Author and his brother, along with hundreds of other children, being evacuated to the coast. His story progresses through a series of events that change his life dramatically as a young boy. This is a real life account of fates that become inextricably entwined amidst the clamour of wartime and the transformational odyssey of a young boy growing up during a volatile period. Harrowing and inspirational, I’ll Take That One is a profound read that seamlessly merges history with personal experience and brings down the phenomenon of war into a real and humanized level. The story potently captures the Second World War zeitgeist while actively demonstrating the unwavering essence of the human spirit.

Download or read book More Laughter Sweat Fears written by Trevor Whitehead and published by Trevor Whitehead. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous look at life working in a factory. The banter, the laughter and the friendships forged over thirty-plus years. The squabbles, the strikes and the hardships. The characters, good and bad, all feature in this book. Follow one man's journey through the militant 70s to the present date. If you've ever been involved in a factory atmosphere or not, this is the book for you to read and enjoy. Working as a layman for the Trade Union and Labour Party as well brings many humorous stories to life.

Download or read book Budgie written by John Burridge and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and funny tell-all autobiography from a man with an astonishing football career John "Budgie" Burridge is a true journeyman pro and a hero to football fans. In a unique career spanning 30 years, Budgie played 771 league games for 29 teams, including Crystal Palace and QPR (under Terry Venables at both clubs), Southampton (alongside a young Alan Shearer), Manchester City, Aston Villa (where he would play against Barcelona in the European Super Cup), Wolves, and in Scotland with Hibernian where he was a hero in their League Cup win of 1991. That happy sojourn to Edinburgh would end in acrimony, however, as he ended up in a dressing-room fight with the manager. Highly respected as a goalkeeper, but denounced by many as an "oddball" (he admitted that he often slept wearing only his goalkeeper's gloves), Budgie was famous for his madcap antics and his pre-match stretching routines. The Burridge story was far from over when he retired in 1997 at the age of 47. He spent months in a clinic struggling with depression. He became player-manager at non-league Blyth Spartans, only to late be convicted for dealing in counterfeit leisurewear. Together with his wife of more than 30 years, Budgie moved to Oman in the Middle East to take up a coaching post with the national team. He sustained serious injuries when he was knocked down by a car in 1999, but is back in health, and ready to tell his true story.

Download or read book Mind Games written by Jeff Grout and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-10-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a winner - in business or in sport? Why do some peopleconsistently break sales targets, cross the line first or hammerthe ball in the net with pinpoint accuracy? Natural talent anddisciplined training are vital. But with two equally matchedprofessionals, something else makes the difference that providesthat extra, champion factor: the mind. Mind Games looks into the mental processes of sportingstars, identifying the attitudes and approaches that enable them toachieve peak performance, every time, and applies them specificallyto the world of business. What are the key mental characteristicsthat make some people come out on top? How do winners channeladrenalin into controlled power while losers choke? What dosportsmen and women mean when they talk about 'the inner game',being 'in the zone' or being 'in the now'? What is it that coachesdo to realise the potential they see? What are the lessons thatbusiness winners need to learn from sport's superstars? Mind Games has the full involvement of over 30 sportinghousehold names, including Sven-Göran Eriksson, MatthewPinsent, Clive Woodward, Nick Faldo, Jonny Wilkinson. The authorsdraw on extensive first-hand experiences of acknowledged sportingchampions across a range of sports, identifying personal techniquesproven to have worked under the pressure of top-level competition.They also draw on the expertise of professional coaches andpsychologists who have worked with sportsmen and women.

Download or read book Carry Me Home written by Ben Cohen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Cohen’s dad didn’t know anything about the sport his young son had taken up, but he was happy to drive him to practice, and was soon helping out at the club. When his business went bankrupt money was tight, but Ben’s hard working parents inspired their son to put his all into rugby. Then, when Ben was 20, his father intervened in a fight in the nightclub where he worked. He was viciously beaten and one month later he died in hospital. Ben was doing an England press conference at the time, and it was down to coach Clive Woodward to deliver the devastating news. But the ordeal was far from over. The inquest lasted five months before the funeral could be held, and it was a year before the family were in court, facing Peter’s assailants. Ben put all of the anger and pain from his father’s death into his rugby. Fast and powerful on the wing, he was soon the best in the world in his position and a cornerstone of the England team, culminating in the legendary World Cup win in Sydney in 2003. And yet he always felt like an outsider. Most people didn’t know that Ben is clinically deaf. His sixth sense for the game got him through on the pitch, but off it his poor hearing was often taken for arrogance. This is an inspirational story of passion and pain; of the highs of achieving your goals, and the grief of losing something you can never get back.

Download or read book Journeyman written by Ben Smith and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEN SMITH: PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLER. Recognise the name? Of course you don't. That's because most of Smith's years in the game were spent outside the vaunted, big-money environs of the Premier League - and this sporting memoir is all the more entertaining as a result. 1995: an adolescent Ben arrives at the training ground of one of England's biggest clubs to begin his journey and realise his dream of playing top-flight professional football. Aged just sixteen, he shares pre-season sessions at Arsenal with the likes of Dennis Bergkamp and Ian Wright. Surely this is the start of a stellar career? Instead, the next seventeen years saw the bright young star descend the ranks from Highbury to obscurity. With seasons playing for the likes of Reading, Yeovil, Southend, Hereford, Shrewsbury and Weymouth - and a career including three promotions, one relegation and some very memorable FA Cup games - Ben's story is one of a quintessential journeyman footballer. Candidly describing the negotiations, insecurities, injuries, relocations, personal implications and wet Saturday afternoons playing in front of 500 people, Journeyman offers a unique insight into the unvarnished life of a lower-league player - so far removed from the stories of pampered Premiership stars - as well as documenting the many teammates, opponents, managers and coaches who left an indelible mark on Ben's eclectic career. Refreshingly unsentimental and often hilarious, Smith's story is essential reading for all true fans of the not-always-so-beautiful game.

Download or read book Flying with the Owls Crime Squad written by Paul Allen and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Owls Crime Squad. The firm that became notorious for pulling off the most audacious invasions and legendary battles no matter how the odds were stacked. What they lacked in organisation they made up for in sheer ferocity. Always up for it and never prepared to give any ground, they caused mayhem up and down the country, both on and off the terraces.For the first time, Paul Allen and Douglas Naylor piece together their years together in one of the most feared firms since the '70s. This is an electrifying and intelligent account of the legendary decades when the Owls Crime Squad dominated casual violence. It is an uncompromising look at football culture and the violence that surrounds it. The names have been changed to protect the innocent...and the guilty!

Download or read book Loud Proud and Positive written by Garry Monk and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Swansea City Football Club captain Garry Monk. During his seven years at Swansea he has been instrumental in leading them to promotion on three occasions. He is a player who has battled against the odds and instilled that attitude into the players around him. Garry is held in great affection by the Swans fans.

Download or read book Survivor written by Tom Hoyle and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survivor is a dangerously explosive thriller from bestselling author Tom Hoyle, author of Thirteen and Spiders. People are dying. One mysterious death on the Ultimate Bushcraft adventure holiday is tragic. But when a second, and then a third person dies, something suspicious is going on . . . But who can you trust when everyone around you is a suspect? As numbers dwindle, the chances of survival plummet. Staying alive has never seemed so guilty. Nobody is safe. Perfect for fans of Michael Grant.

Download or read book Boleyn Boy My Autobiography written by Mark Noble and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton Park and became ‘Mr West Ham’: a one-club man who lived the dream.

Download or read book Pompey written by Neil Allen and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** THE FANS. THE PLAYERS. THE POMPEY FAMILY. YOU KNOW THEIR NAMES, NOW IT'S TIME FOR THEIR STORY ** At the start of the 2019-20 League One season, award-winning sports reporter Neil Allen set out to follow the fortunes of a team in the hunt for promotion. By the time it came to an end, the football almost felt like an afterthought. Covering the highs and lows of a season like no other, Allen offers an exclusive insight into a club and a fanbase that has known more hardship than most, exploring the vital role a football club plays when the football is taken away. Given unparalleled access, Allen interviews current players and club legends, the fans who saved the club in 2013 and those now tasked with ensuring its survival. The essential profile of Portsmouth Football Club, its fans and its recent history.

Download or read book From Prison to the Premiership The Amazing True Story of Britain s Hardest Footballer written by Jamie Lawrence and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few footballers have 'Jailhouse Rock' played over the PA when the make their professional debut, but that's what happened to Jamie Lawrence when he came on as a substitute for Sunderland against Middlesbrough in 1993. In a life that has seen him go from prison to the football premiership, Jamie has one hell of a story to tell.In a career that has lasted over 12 years, Jamie Lawrence has played in the Premiership against some of the world's best players, including David Beckham. He has won the Liverpool Cup with Leicester and has played for Jamaica I World Cup qualifiers. But his route into football's elite was far from conventional, for Jamie spent his late teens in Borstal.Jamie's skill for football emerged at the age of three, but although he played for local teams in Battersea as a schoolboy, he wasn't scouted by a prefoessional club. When his parents returned to Jamaica when he was 17, Jamie fell into a life of petty crime. It was during his second spell in prison, at Camp Hill on the Isle of Wight, that he began to turn his life around. He joined the prison football team and his talent was spotted when they played a semi-professional team. Three months after his release from prison in 1993, Jamie was signed by Sunderland.Jamie's character, which is as colourful as his ever-changing hair styles, has endeared him to everyone he meets. Fans, managers, team-mates, opponents, friends and ex-lovers all tell tales of his various escapades, including his legendary capacity for consuming Guinness and his numerous sexual adventures. And Jamie reveals how he has matured to the point that he is now in a settled relationship and is taking responsibility for his children.This biography of a hilarious insight into one of football's greatest characters.

Download or read book Who Are Ya written by Kevin Day and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Excellent" –The Times "Kevin's immense knowledge shines on every page." – Gary Lineker "A football book by a fan for the fans. A treasure trove." – Alan Davies "An entertaining romp through the back alleys and glamour parks of English football." – FourFourTwo Partly autobiographical, partly polemical, but mostly funny, Who Are Ya? is a snapshot of modern football, exploring the history of all 92 English Football League clubs . During his time as a broadcaster, comedian and former Match of the Day presenter Kevin Day has spoken to thousands of football players, managers and most importantly fans from across the generations. He spent thousands of hours crossing the country on trains, planes, automobiles, coaches – and once a donkey called Lightning – watching football at all levels. This book is the result of that: a tale of being chased down a railway line at Cardiff, a story of meeting George Best, an account of a lady getting her first Hull City tattoo at the age of 80! Crisply funny and with a host of celebrity football fan contributors – including Stephen Fry, Jo Brand, Alfie Boe, Eddie Izzard, Gabby Logan, and Romesh Ranganathan – Who Are Ya? celebrates the joys and miseries of being a football supporter.

Download or read book The Road from Wembley written by John Stoneman and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Stoneman follows a tributary of the 2007/08 FA Cup from its earliest of rounds in August through to the showpiece final at the Wembley. Part reportage, part biography, this amusing travelogue will resonate with all football fans.