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16 produkter
Ossie
King of Stamford Bridge
Av Martin King, Martin Knight m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
79 kr
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In a 16-year career spent with Chelsea and Southampton, goal-scoring legend Peter Osgood made 560 appearances, scoring 220 goals and winning two FA Cup-winner's medals. He was part of the victorious Chelsea side that defeated the mighty Real Madrid in the 1971 European Cup-Winners Cup final and is …
Naughty Nineties
Football's Coming Home
E-bok, 2011
79 kr
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Football has reinvented itself. As television money has poured into the game, the traditional working-class fans have poured out - not by choice, but by economic necessity. According to those in charge of the game the football hooligan has at last been eliminated from the landscape. But how true is …
Gypsy Joe
Bare-Knuckle Fighter and Professional Golfer
Av Gypsy Joe Smith, Martin Knight
Inbunden, 2009
202 kr
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Cushty
A Romany Life
Häftad, 2021
156 kr
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First published to critical acclaim as Gypsy Joe, with The Observer selecting it as Sports Book Of The Year, Cushty is a revised and expanded edition. Encouraged as a child to reject the gypsy tradition of fighting and take up golf, Joe rose through the ranks of the professional sport. However, …
Broken Wafers
Häftad, 2022
156 kr
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British author Martin Knight was born at the end of the 1950s on the outskirts of semi-rural South London. Broken Wafers tells the story of his life on a council estate as he navigates the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s. Knight charts a period when Britain emerged from post-war austerity …
Justice Killer
Häftad, 2023
144 kr
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Paul Garfield is a suicide in waiting. Following the death of his wife and soulmate, Jan, he lives with controlled despair, going through the motions for the sake of his daughter, who is starting out in the world. When he recalls the murder of an elderly war hero he knew as a schoolboy, and …
Battersea Girl
Tracing a London Life
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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A couple of years ago, Martin Knight began a quest to delve into his family history. He had a head start on many amateur genealogists, as 30 years earlier he had produced a school project on the very subject. The project was based on the papers and oral history of his then elderly grandmother, …
On The Cobbles
Jimmy Stockin: The Life Of A Bare Knuckled Gypsy Warrior
Av Jimmy Stockin, Martin King m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
79 kr
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Everyone is familiar with the gypsy race but few outside their close-knit and ancient community really know what being a gypsy is about -how they live and how they think. This is the story of a gypsy man, Jimmy Stockin, born into a world where fighting is first nature. Whilst football maybe the …
Hoolifan
30 Years of Hurt
E-bok, 2011
79 kr
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Hoolifan is the story of one man, Martin King, and his experiences spanning three decades with the country's foremost soccer gang. Chelsea have always been at the cutting edge of football violence, and King himself was at the heart of the evolving Chelsea mob for some 30 years. From his first visit …
Grass
Av Martin King, Martin Knight m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
79 kr
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Grass is the incredible story of Phil Sparrowhawk, a working-class boy with gambling in his blood. Like most punters, he enjoyed an incredible run of luck, but finally rolled the dice once too often.Before he had come of age, Phil had accumulated a small fortune from street trading. He then staked …
Evil Families
A History of Bad Blood
E-bok, 2019
16 kr
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Is it true that the apple never falls far from the tree? Throughout history, you see examples where criminality seems to run in the family. From the Ptolemaic dynasty that terrorized Greek Egypt to the modern mafia, familial ties often dictate your relationship to violence, cruelty and the law. …
I Ran With The Gang
My Life In And Out Of The Bay City Rollers
Av Alan Longmuir, Martin Knight
Häftad, 2021
120 kr
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The Bay City Rollers were one of the brightest things to happen in the tumultuous 1970s, illuminating a dark decade marred by falling stock markets, a plummeting economy and industrial unrest. Alan Longmuir, an apprentice plumber from Edinburgh, was inspired by The Beatles to form a band in the …
