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Headline
Pub. Date
2021
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You love your team first. It's tribal. Except I did love something else. I loved the idea of commentating on my team, on every team. I loved it even more than Manchester United. I ditched the girl next door for the diva on the silver screen. Like all true romances, it was irrational and intoxicating, it was tangled and foolish, it became addictive and occasionally heart-breaking and it kept on changing. Two United goals inside two minutes changed...
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Sphere
Pub. Date
2022
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The Premier League is the most watched sports league in the world, broadcast into 188 countries and watched by 3.2 billion people worldwide. 'Fever Pitch' is a fascinating history of the Premier League, with exclusive material from all the big names involved in its formation. From David Beckham to Eric Cantona and Peter Schmeichel to Gary Neville and everyone in between, this book is full of exclusive interviews that give fascinating insight into...
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Pitch Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2017
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'Mud, Sweat and Sheers' is the story of how a miner became one of football's leading groundsmen. It tells how he met some of the greatest names in the 1970s and 1980s. A unique football book through a groundsman's eyes, it tells the story of what typically went on behind the scenes before football became the multi-million-pound industry it is today.
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Biteback Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
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Long before television rights ushered in the age of the multi-millionaire footballer, the wages of professional players were capped so that they earned not much more than the national average wage. This was a time when the men who played for the great football clubs of Britain shared a bond of borderline penury with the fans they entertained. This book takes the first-hand accounts of a disappearing generation of footballers before their stories are...
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DB Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
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In his own words, Maurice Edwards - Clough and Taylor's chief scout and trusted friend for over 20 years - lifts the lid on the dynamic and often tempestuous partnership that brought footballing success to the East Midlands during the 1960s and 70s.