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2) Two brothers
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2022
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'Two Brothers' tells the story of a great sporting family, uncovering new details, exposing myths and placing Jack and Bobby Charlton in their historical context. It's a book about two English footballers but also about English football and England itself. In later life Jack and Bobby didn't get on and barely spoke but the lives of these very different brothers from the coalfield tells the story of late twentieth-century English football: the tensions...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2022
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This title charts legendary broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson's love of cricket, football and family throughout his life. Reflecting on his sporting life, he touches on his relationship with the late Shane Warne, who he was the first to interview in long form, and recalls his friendship with the legends of sport.
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Quercus
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Robert Firmino signed for Liverpool in July 2015 and for the next eight years established himself as one of the club's most popular players. The master of the no-look goal earned plaudits and fan adulation for his creativity, goalscoring and work ethic. Jurgen Klopp saw Firmino as the on-pitch 'engine' that propelled the club's counter-pressing system. Together with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane, Firmino formed a formidable trio of attack. Roberto...
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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021
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It's 2021 and James is at a crossroads. His glittering international rugby career that took him from England to New Zealand and France - including 77 caps for England - is over. What will he do now? What is his purpose in life? In 'Ruck Me', James sets out on a voyage of self-discovery speaking to ex-colleagues, friends and family, reflecting on his career and diving into some of his most memorable personal anecdotes to date. But what started out...
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Headline
Pub. Date
2023
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In the sterile and corporate modern game, is there room for the mercurial midfielder or the tough-tackling defender or the pot-bellied goal poacher? Rewind two or three decades and British professional football was stuffed to the gunnels with these 'one-offs': players with bags of talent, yes, but also lorryloads of personality and a hugely relatable quality which meant they'd all be playing Sunday morning park football if they hadn't become professionals....
Author
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2023
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For three months every year football clubs buy and sell human beings. They spend more than 4 billion a year on footballers. The right deal can help you win you the game's top prizes, the wrong deal can cost you your job and bankrupt your club. Jim White and Kaveh Solhekol are two of the world's leading transfer experts. Let them take you behind the scenes into this murky, cutthroat, winner-takes-all, billion-pound world. Jim and Kaveh have some of...
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Monoray
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So, you fell into football by accident. You've played for Chelsea, Everton and your country at an international level. But what happens when you discover you're in so deep that football has taken over your whole life? In his new memoir, Pat Nevin takes us on a journey to the less glamorous side of football. From Tranmere to Kilmarnock, he plays some of the best football he's ever played. Then, in an unprecedented twist of fate, finds himself both...