Sportsbooks: 14 books
Scouting For Moyes
The inside story of a football scout
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
All football clubs have scouts: men (for they are almost always men) who watch teams to check how they play, who watch players to see how good they are. Les Padfield, though, is not your typical scout. Not many scouts are also published poets! A Londoner, he was a schoolboy footballer of great promise...
Modern Football Is Still Rubbish
Slinging mud at whats left of the beautiful game
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2010
Nick Davidson and Shaun Hunt were hoping that their first book, Modern Football is Rubbish, would put right all the ills of the present day game. But, amazingly, the administrators at club and national level took no notice and the putrification of the beautiful game continued. Hence they return - slinging mud at what's left of the game they love.
Modern Football Is Rubbish
An A to Z of All That is Wrong with the Beautiful Game
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
Authors Nick Davidson and Shaun Hunt are going through a mid-life crisis as far as football is concerned. Now they've reached early middle-age, they are wondering what has happened to the beautiful game. Where have all the muddy pitches gone? They wallow in nostalgia for 3pm Saturday kick-offs and...
Growing Up With Subbuteo
My Father Invented the World's Greatest Game
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2006
Mark Adolph is the son of the man who in the 1950s invented Subbuteo, the table football game that became an obsession for millions of small boys and their fathers! That generation is now between 30 and 60. The game is just being relaunched and many of the first generation will be able to introduce their own children to its delights. This book is being backed by Subbuteo makers Hasbro.
The Rebel Tours
Cricket's Crisis of Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
In 1968, cricket was at the forefront of global opposition to Apartheid as the Basil D'Oliveira affair proved a watershed in the sporting boycott against South Africa. Yet the boycott was repeatedly breached - teams from England, the West Indies, Australia and Sri Lanka toured South Africa in defiance...
Duckworth Lewis
The Method and the Men Behind it
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Name cricket's most famous partnership nowadays and one can forget Hobbs and Sutcliffe, Statham and Trueman or Lillee and Thomson. Instead one has to turn to Duckworth and Lewis, the two statisticians who brought order to the one-day game when rain interfered. These days, almost every weather-truncated...
The Boys From The Black Country
A fans history of Wolverhampton Wanderers from way back when to just ab
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Mark Gold thought he had got writing about Wolves out of his system when he wrote Under A Wanderers Star-Forty Pain-filled Years of following the Wolves (Offwell Press, 2003). But no. Mark, who first saw Wolves on TV as a seven-year-old in 1960 when they won the FA Cup - their last trophy - has returned...
by Iain Manson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
The story of bare-knuckle prize fighting between Tom Sayers and John Heenan which gripped England and the USA in 1860. The fighters, their handlers and the spectators avoided police to watch the contest which was held in the Hampshire countryside. Both men were hugely popular with their own countries...
by Jonathan Mumford, David Cregeen
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
With increasing admission prices and odd kick-off times, football fans have been having a rough time in recent years, but still they flock to matches. This book tells the story of one club, Everton, through the mouths of their fans and players. It shows how obsessive football fans can be and how they...
Usain Bolt
The Story of the World's Fastest Man
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Usain Bolt is that rarity in the modern world - a man whose fame transcends his nationality, his race and even his sport. From Los Angeles to Beijing, from Kingston to Berlin, the name Bolt resonates immediately even with those with only a passing interest in sport. Bolt is, quite simply, the world's...
by Mark Rowe
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
One minute before 7pm on Tuesday May 22, 1945, a packed Lord's roared as Australia beat England in the last over of the first Victory Test. A fortnight after victory in Europe, the result did not matter - only the cricket. The five matches between a near full-strength England and Australian servicemen...
Sugong
The Life of a Shaolin Grandmaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Nick Hurst was working in London when he threw in his job in advertising to train for four years in Malaysia and China with a kung fu grandmaster, Sugong. This is a mix of Nick's experiences in South-East Asia and the story of Sugong's extraordinary life. Initiated into kung fu by an opium-addicted...
Pirates, Punks & Politics
FC. St Pauli : Falling in Love with a Radical Football Club
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
FC Sankt Pauli is the football club in the red-light district of Hamburg. They have a transvestite chairman and terraces populated by punks, pimps and prostitutes. It is a club run by anarchists, united under the skull and crossbones flag. This is the cliche that has been lazily peddled but it s not...
by Lynn McConnell
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
During the Depression in the 1930s, one part of society was booming. Track and field suddenly became hugely popular - above all, the mile run. Lynn McConnell here charts the period between the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and the infamous Nazi Olympics in Berlin four years later. Its main figures are...