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The story of the first bilateral above-the-knee amputee to become and IRONMAN champion. Roderick Sewell II was born without the tibia in both of his legs. Before he turned two years old, his mother, Marian, made the tough choice to have his legs amputated so that he...
Editeur : Legacy Lit
Parution : 2025-08-05
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
12,99€ (-8%)
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'Invaluable . . . A whistle-stop tour down through the ages' Jarlath Burns, GAA PresidentThe ultimate book to celebrate 140 years of Ireland's greatest sporting and cultural institution - The GAA.Pulse of the Nation is a celebration of the GAA's 140 years at the centre...
Editeur : Hachette Books Ireland
Parution : 2024-10-03
Format(s) : ePub
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A revelatory memoir from Liverpool legend and global football star Bobby Firmino.Master of the no-look goal and Anfield favourite, Roberto 'Bobby' Firmino, signed for Liverpool in July 2015. Over the next eight years - and seven winners' medals - he established himself...
Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2023-11-09
Format(s) : ePub
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Cricket has been the single most popular sport in India. In a technologically unmediated age, the game was played in the five-day test format. In 2007 though, the sport evolved itself into the Indian Premier League, an association that transformed it from mere a sport...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-11-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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*AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW* __________The beautiful game is under threat. The greed and selfishness of the biggest clubs is harming the sport, with smaller clubs struggling for financial survival and supporters being left behind.It's time to fix football....
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2022-09-15
Format(s) : ePub
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Explore the complete history of The FA Cup in this definitive illustrated book. The FA Cup is the oldest national football competition in the world, and one of the most beloved and popular tournaments in football. In 2022, it will be 150 years since the inaugural...
Editeur : Welbeck
Parution : 2022-03-17
Format(s) : ePub
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Three of the greatest football clubs: Celtic, Liverpool and Manchester United. Their three greatest managers: Jock Stein, Bill Shankly and Matt Busby.Three men born within a 20-mile radius of each other in the central lowlands of Scotland; forged in mining communities...
Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2019-10-17
Format(s) : ePub
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A massive audience in sitting-rooms, parks and pubs watched England in the 2018 World Cup. Yet as Duncan Hamilton demonstrates with style, insight and wit in Going to the Match, watching on TV is no substitute for being there. Hamilton embarks on a richly entertaining,...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2018-09-20
Format(s) : ePub
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Ask a British football fan what they know about Turkish football, and they are unlikely to describe scenes of camaraderie, hospitality and humour. They are more likely to mention banners proclaiming 'Welcome to hell'. Or Leeds United supporters stabbed to death on an...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2018-04-26
Format(s) : ePub
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Packed full of essential tools and tips, this second edition is your quick-start guide to undertaking research within real world of sport. Using clear, accessible language, Smith maps an easy-to-follow journey through the research process, drawing upon the most...
Editeur : Learning Matters
Parution : 2017-10-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Sport can bring out the best in us… and the worst. The high-pressure world of competitive sport has been shaken over the years by a series of major scandals. Involving drugs, sex, violence, money or pure and simple cheating, these incidents have ruined reputations,...
Editeur : Summersdale
Parution : 2016-10-13
Format(s) : ePub
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Any study of sport is incomplete without consideration of its social function and structures, its economic impacts both locally and globally, and its political dimension – particularly when used by nations for competitive gain. Sport Sociology provides a...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2016-05-16
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'This football book is about something even more important than the "beautiful game"; it is a story of the human spirit.' - Mick Hume,...
Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2016-05-12
Format(s) : ePub
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Is there anything more universally American than NFL football? Love of the NFL runs deep and broad. It is a primetime TV event on multiple national networks, subsidized by public funds and popular from Mount Rainier to Miami Beach. The 2015 Super Bowl, a thriller...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2015-12-08
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
11,99€ (-8%)
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No Tie Required is an entertaining journey across Britain, celebrating the wonderful, eccentric and historical public courses where no club membership is required. Not for Chris Cairns the member's door and the pink gins of the 19th hole. Instead the author has sought...
Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-05-22
Format(s) : ePub
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Born in Bow in 1980, Ledley King joined Tottenham Hotspur as a trainee at the age of sixteen, and was a White Hart Lane talisman from his 1999 debut through to his retirement in 2012. Telling it how it was behind the scenes at Spurs during his years progressing from...
Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2013-09-12
Format(s) : ePub
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In the spring of 1964 more than 50,000 people turned out to watch the two-legged semi-final of the FA Youth Cup between Manchester City and Manchester United. It was a time of great hope and excitement: a new era was to be ushered in, with the virtues of youth...
Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2012-12-06
Format(s) : ePub
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Liverpool FC is one of the world's leading football clubs - and a host of talented Irish players have played a significant part in its history. Here, Keith Falkiner looks at the proud history ofLiverpool F.C. through the eyes of its Irish players, managers and fans...
Editeur : Hachette Books Ireland
Parution : 2012-08-30
Format(s) : ePub
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Drugs in sport are big news and the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport is common. Here, Chris Cooper, a top biochemist at the University of Essex, looks at the science behind drugs in sport. Using the performance of top athletes, Cooper begins by outlining the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-04-12
Format(s) : PDF
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Drugs in sport are big news and the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport is common. Here, Chris Cooper, a top biochemist at the University of Essex, looks at the science behind drugs in sport. Using the performance of top athletes, Cooper begins by outlining the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-04-12
Format(s) : ePub
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