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Dirtiest Race in History
Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final
Häftad, 2013
186 kr
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'A captivating and detailed account ... it reads like a thriller, which is exactly the right tone to adopt by author Richard Moore for a story dripping with skulduggery and intrigue ... compelling' The Sunday ExpressThe 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the …
Half-Time
The Glorious Summer of 1934
Häftad, 2016
239 kr
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Set against the backdrop of depression-era politics, 1934 was an annus mirabilis for English sport. Within just a few days of each other, Hedley Verity, Henry Cotton and Fred Perry all triumphed in their field. To a sporting audience still groaning through the quagmire left by the Great Depression, …
Among the Fans
E-bok, 2011
122 kr
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There was once a time, not so long ago, where our sporting heroes were treated with veneration. Players were players and their watchers were passive. Heroes lived on pedestals - they weren''t public property. This book explores the many ways this dynamic has changed over the years. From the Barmy …
Great Tamasha
Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India
Av James Astill
Häftad, 2014
232 kr
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On a Bangalore night in April 2008, cricket and India changed forever. It was the first night of the Indian Premier League – cricket, but not as we knew it. It involved big money, glitz, prancing girls and Bollywood stars. It was not so much sport as tamasha: a great entertainment. The Great …
Among the Fans
E-bok, 2011
122 kr
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There was once a time, not so long ago, where our sporting heroes were treated with veneration. Players were players and their watchers were passive. Heroes lived on pedestals - they weren''t public property. This book explores the many ways this dynamic has changed over the years. From the Barmy …
Sit Down and Cheer
A History of Sport on Tv
E-bok, 2012
110 kr
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Television and sport is the ultimate marriage of convenience. The two circled each other warily for a while - sport anxious the sofa-bound might spurn the live product, TV reluctant in a limited channel world to hand over too much screen time to flannelled fools and muddied oafs. But they got …
Sit Down and Cheer
A History of Sport on Tv
E-bok, 2012
117 kr
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Television and sport is the ultimate marriage of convenience. The two circled each other warily for a while - sport anxious the sofa-bound might spurn the live product, TV reluctant in a limited channel world to hand over too much screen time to flannelled fools and muddied oafs. But they got …
Dirtiest Race in History
Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final
E-bok, 2012
195 kr
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''A captivating and detailed account ... it reads like a thriller, which is exactly the right tone to adopt by author Richard Moore for a story dripping with skulduggery and intrigue ... compelling'' The Sunday Express The 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the …
Dirtiest Race in History
Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final
E-bok, 2012
191 kr
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''A captivating and detailed account ... it reads like a thriller, which is exactly the right tone to adopt by author Richard Moore for a story dripping with skulduggery and intrigue ... compelling'' The Sunday Express The 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the …
We'll Get 'Em in Sequins
Manliness, Yorkshire Cricket and the Century That Changed Everything
Av Max Davidson
E-bok, 2012
128 kr
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A truly unique and fascinating look at the changing nature of masculinity and manliness, told through the lens of a series of Yorkshire County Cricket Club player portraits through the ages. George Hirst was a man of his time. His apocryphal quotation "We''ll get ''em in singles"epitomises his …
We'll Get 'Em in Sequins
Manliness, Yorkshire Cricket and the Century That Changed Everything
Av Max Davidson
E-bok, 2012
128 kr
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A truly unique and fascinating look at the changing nature of masculinity and manliness, told through the lens of a series of Yorkshire County Cricket Club player portraits through the ages. George Hirst was a man of his time. His apocryphal quotation "We''ll get ''em in singles"epitomises his …
Great Tamasha
Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India
Av James Astill
E-bok, 2013
239 kr
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On a Bangalore night in April 2008, cricket and India changed forever. It was the first night of the Indian Premier League – cricket, but not as we knew it. It involved big money, glitz, prancing girls and Bollywood stars. It was not so much sport as tamasha: a great entertainment. The Great …
Foinavon
The Story of the Grand National’s Biggest Upset
Av David Owen
E-bok, 2013
130 kr
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It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand National''s standards and won the world''s toughest steeplechase. The jumps-racing establishment - and Gregory Peck, the …
Half-Time
The Glorious Summer of 1934
E-bok, 2015
243 kr
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Set against the backdrop of depression-era politics, 1934 was an annus mirabilis for English sport. Within just a few days of each other, Hedley Verity, Henry Cotton and Fred Perry all triumphed in their field. To a sporting audience still groaning through the quagmire left by the Great Depression, …
Forever Boys
The Days of Citizens and Heroes
Av James Lawton
E-bok, 2015
169 kr
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Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year 2015 Sometimes you love a football team not only for their strengths, the splendour of their play and the appealing thrust of their character, but also the haunting possibility that their best hopes may never be fulfilled. This has rarely been demonstrated so …
Out of Time
1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain
E-bok, 2016
117 kr
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A vibrant and captivating portrait of the summer of 1966 – as a man, a team and a country all teetered on the cusp of momentous change '' This joyous book, a memoir of late adolescence laced with social and football history, is also a catalogue of both the untidiness and the limits of change'' …
Endurance
The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zátopek
Häftad, 2017
164 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARThe story of the greatest long-distance athlete in history – a tale of running, redemption and political exile.In the summer of 1952 Emil Zátopek became the king of the running world with an unprecedented distance treble at the Olympic Games …
Endurance
The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil ZáTopek
E-bok, 2016
169 kr
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Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year "A runner must run with dreams in his heart." Emil Zatopek. In the summer of 1952 Emil Zatopek became the king of the running world with an unprecedented distance treble at the Olympic Games in Helsinki. Together with his wife Dana, who won …
