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Climbing the Chelsea Hill is the gripping story of Ken Shellito, the first and only Chelsea manager to enter the job after rising through the ranks at Stamford Bridge. After joining as ground staff at 15, he turned professional in 1957. He played 123...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR The story of the greatest long-distance athlete in history - a tale of running, redemption and political exile. In the summer of 1952 Emil Zatopek became the king of the running world with an...

He was a small-town boy who burst onto the international golf scene with a dramatic hook shot from deep in the woods to win the Masters- before the game he loved almost killed him. Opening up about the toll that chasing and achieving his dream of being a...

'Claridge is not just a character...it's his utter inability to take football, or life, even remotely seriously which makes his book so entertaining' TOTAL SPORT'Ranks among the best football books of recent years' DAILY TELEGRAPHThe biography of Steve...

What follows, which explores some of the charms, the quirks and the peculiar allure of cricket from a variety of perspectives, is not intended as a memorial for long-lost sepia days. The game is still alive. Whether it turns out to be therapy for me or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786051240Author Eamon McAuleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Orpen PressPublisher Orpen Press

Captain of Celtic and midfield enforcer for Northern Ireland, Neil Lennon is one of the most controversial figures in British football. His story, fully updated for the Celtic 2006/7 season in this paperback edition, is an extraordinary tale of religious...

Captain of Celtic and midfield enforcer for Northern Ireland, Neil Lennon is one of the most controversial figures in British football. His story, fully updated for the Celtic 2006/7 season in this paperback edition, is an extraordinary tale of religious...

Warren Gatland's In the Line of Fire is the ultimate chronicle of this summer's remarkable Lions tour to New Zealand - home of the fearsome All Blacks, the double world champions - which culminated in an historic and nerve-shredding series draw.The book...

The definitive story of the father of modern football, Herbert Chapman.Herbert Chapman, the boss of the all-conquering Arsenal team of the 1930s, was the father of modern football management. A relative journeyman as a player, he moved into the dugout...

Flight to Bogota tells the incredible story of one of the most infamous episodes in English sporting history, when a group of British footballers turned their backs on club and country before the 1950 World Cup for a sporting El Dorado in Colombia. It...

The illustrated biography of the former Speedway World Champion Bruce Penhall, who not only won everything individually in a career that established him as one of the all-time great riders, but also turned Cradley Heath into League Champions. Speedway is...

A real-life success story of overcoming adversity coupled with a unique Mind/Body training programme, LONE W.O.L.F is aimed at the 35+ age group who want to combat age-related changes, sports men and women looking for an edge in their respective fields,...

Eisner Nominated 2021 At sixteen, bivouacked on a mountainside beneath a sky filled with stars, Jean-Marc Rochette has already begun measuring himself against some of Europe's highest peaks. The Aiguille Dibona, the Coup de Saber, La Meije: the...

Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards Biography of the Year 'A splendid new biography. How good was young Tom Morris? Stephen Proctor makes his case cogently. Young Tom Morris was one of the greatest of them all' - Allan Massie Young Tom...

It is a special footballer who wins the World Cup as a 21-year-old and ends a two-decade career as one of the most revered players in the history of four clubs. Former England captain Alan Ball was such a man: prodigy at Blackpool, youngest hero of 1966,...

Over the last thirty years, the English Premier League has grown to become the richest and most popular league in football - and the Irish have been at the heart of its success since the very beginning. In exclusive interviews with thirty former and...

Major Norton gave the order to fire two or three times ... Their advanced machine gunners could be seen rushing forward and establishing themselves in commanding posts ... Almost at once the ridge we were occupying was swept by machine gun fire ... ...

Meet Gary Fisher. The maverick kid bike racer who cycled straight into the Acid Test scene and lit up the Grateful Dead gigs, the relentless tinkerer who transformed an industry and sold mountain biking to the world and the visionary who's still working...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RONALDO AND NEYMAR.Prolific, cool-headed and unerringly consistent, Lionel Messi is one of the most revered footballers in history. But did you know that his transfer to Barcelona was first agreed on a paper napkin?Or that...

Tessa and Scott share their incredible and inspiring story - now updated and expanded with a new introduction, over 100 dazzling new photographs, and three all-new chapters covering the pair's stunning performances at the Sochi and PyeongChang Olympic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780912172Author Mick WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Ever wondered which goal Frank Lampard is proudest of, who Jurgen Klopp thinks will manage Liverpool in the future, what Rio Ferdinand thinks of Man United in the post-Ferguson years or exactly how many grey cashmere jumpers Pep Guardiola owns? In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635618525Author James E ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

How one man went from gaming and making videos at home to becoming a football club owner'The bizarre new world of football' Guardian I lifted the trophy triumphantly over my head, just as I'd seen so many FA Cup, World Cup and Champions League winners do...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953563316Author Ray WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Hrp HousePublisher Hrp HouseWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Tom Finney personifies a vanished golden era of football, playing his entire career under the maximum wage and never wavering in his loyalty to Preston North End. A true gentleman of the game, who is still justifiably idolised more than 40 years since...

Tom Finney personifies a vanished golden era of football, playing his entire career under the maximum wage and never wavering in his loyalty to Preston North End. A true gentleman of the game, who is still justifiably idolised more than 40 years since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316356527Author Kate FaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570273933Author Paolo SollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher Autonomedia

HE HAS TAKEN HIS GAME -- AND THE GAME -- TO A NEW LEVEL He grew up in Virginia with nothing but his talent and his heart. But he had The Plan: his never-say-die dream to become an NBA superstar. So he began his journey down a road full of obstacles. But...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635652413Author Scott CarneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Rodale BooksPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm)...

New York Times Bestseller Fame. Sex. Pain. Drugs. Death. Booze. Money. Addiction. Redemption. Dizzying heights. Rock-bottom depths. Desperation and elation-sometimes in the same hour. Not to mention power . . . and the struggle for it. The world knows...

In February 1973, the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland were at their very worst and following Bloody Sunday the previous year neither the Scotland nor Wales rugby teams would dare to travel to Ireland to play. Almost totally reliant on income from...

In February 1973, the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland were at their very worst and following Bloody Sunday the previous year neither the Scotland nor Wales rugby teams would dare to travel to Ireland to play. Almost totally reliant on income from...

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Boris's story is almost without parallel in tennis, from astonishing teenage talent, to Wimbledon champion, to a renowned television commentator, manager, and coach of one of the world's greatest contemporary players, Novak Djokovic. In this wonderful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771083389Author Al StrachanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

WINNER OF THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR PRIZE AT THE CROSS BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2017In the spring of 1901 a teenager stood on top of a hill, gazed out in wonderment at the Australian landscape and decided he wanted to be a mountaineer. Two...

For aspiring cricketer Ed Smith, luck was for other people. Ed believed that the successful cricketer made his own luck by an application of will power, elimination of error, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. But when a freak accident at the...