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The story of one of the greatest footballers of all time, Lionel Messi. Lionel Messi's career has been a stellar ascent, and shows no signs as yet of slowing down. Born in Rosario in Argentina in 1987, he began playing football at a very young age, and...

Only Sir Bobby Charlton and Ryan Giggs have played more games for Manchester United than Bill Foulkes, the granite bulwark of the Red Devils' rearguard for 15 years and a key figure in the history of the club. He played at right-back for the original...

Written with honesty and humour, this is the engaging story of Tiff Needell's life around cars and motor racing. For nearly 25 years Tiff has been a well-known television personality, first on "Top Gear" - where he worked alongside Jeremy...

Josh Lewsey is one of the most successful English rugby players of all time. He has won every trophy in the sport at both national and international level and is renowned for his unconventionally broad interests and achievements. Outside the game, Josh...

Meet the Beast that beat the Mountain. Eddie `The Beast' Hall is the first Brit in 24 years to win the World's Strongest Man competition, beating The Mountain from Game of Thrones. Everything about Eddie is huge. Standing at 6'3 he weighs almost 30...

Jonny Wilkinson's career has crossed three decades and four World Cups. He has accumulated phenomenal achievements, world points records, an impressive list of broken body parts, and a drop goal that will be remembered for ever. But the peculiar calmness...

'The maddest 12 months of my life. The journey starts with an oddball race up an American mountain and ends with me checking myself out of hospital with a broken back. Again ...' As Guy Martin's grandfather Voldemars frequently reminded him,'When you...

This is a biography of Steffi Graf. Her talent and determination have taken Graf from child prodigy to a Grand Slam and the number one position in women's tennis. Despite the focus of international media, she has remained an enigmatic figure. This book...

The greatest story ever told by the world's most beloved sportsman, Roy of the Rovers, in his own words for the first time. The shocking details of the five terrifying kidnappings that threatened to blight his playing career; the stomach-churning murder...

'Even by boxing's standards, Curtis Woodhouse's story is truly remarkable' Ricky Hatton 'As brutally honest as it is gripping, amusing and illuminating' Donald McRae 'A pulsating page-turner of a book' Mail on Sunday The football world is filled with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860518488Format PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Robson Books LtdPublisher Robson Books LtdWeight(grams) 455g

"Denis was the best in the business, he could score goals from a hundredth of a chance never mind half of one". George Best. In the 1960s, Denis Law was the King of Old Trafford. When it came to scoring goals, Law was the master, a mercurial...

This is the life story of the legendary Liverpool and Scotland 1960s footballer known as 'The Saint'. Bought by Bill Shankly from Motherwell in 1961, Ian St John was widely thought of as one of the most significant signings ever made by Liverpool FC, and...

'Feeling the way I do now, it's not a feeling I ever want to have again.' - Andrew Flintoff speaks for a nation. The Ashes, 2006/07: Australia 5 England 0 - the nightmare returns. For twenty years, Australia has produced competitors so gritty they order...

No footballer has ever captured the imagination of the world as fast and as furiously as David Beckham. Julie Burchill tracks his rapid ascent from most villified man in Britain to national hero. In 1998 he made two terrible mistakes - he got a red card...

**Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014** Gareth Thomas had it all. He was a national hero, a sporting icon. He was a leader of men, captain of Wales and the British Lions. To him, rugby was an expression of cultural...

In nearly 25 years as a sports journalist for the Independent, Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times, Martin Johnson has covered sporting events all over the world, including cricket and tennis in Australia, golf in America, Formula One in Kuala Lumpur,...

The story of an outstanding cricket wicket-keeper and batsman.Book InformationISBN 9780718825027Author E.J. SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Lutterworth PressPublisher James Clarke & Co LtdWeight(grams) 320g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582612256Author Marshall TerrillFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Sports Publishing LLCPublisher Sports Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905080496Author Dean WindassFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Great Northern Books LtdPublisher Great Northern Books LtdWeight(grams) 126g

At 23, James Toseland was the youngest ever winner of the World Superbike Championship and with more racing experience than riders twice his age, has overtaken previous champions Carl Fogarty and Neil Hodgson to become the next biking superstar...

Mark Cavendish is the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France's green jersey, the first to wear the iconic rainbow jersey in almost 50 years and our only ever rider to capture the Giro d'Italia points title. He is the most prolific sprinter in...

For millions in Britain, John Motson or 'Motty' is the voice of football. In a career spanning over forty years and 2,000 matches, including commentating on fifty major finals, he has had an unparalleled insight into the ups and downs of the national...

Before the Super Bowl, before "Monday Night Football," even before the NFL, there was Red Grange.If one wants to understand the forces that helped create the modern superstar athlete, you need to begin with Red Grange.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957060548Format PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Myrtle PressPublisher Myrtle PressWeight(grams) 500g

Seven-time European number one, and the towering inspiration behind three successive European Ryder Cup victories, Colin Montgomerie has been praised for his golfing brilliance as well as vilified for his on-course sullenness. Yet 'Monty' has learned to...

Michael Owen's explosive and revealing autobiography Reboot is one of the most talked about football books in recent years. The legendary striker's career divides opinion among fans and his honest book set the record straight. This is his no-holds barred...

The No-Holds-Barred AutobiographyTyson pulls no punches in his most candid, comprehensive and entertaining book yet, which chronicles for the first time in full his inspirational story - the rise, the fall, and the rise again, which saw him come back...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909430167Format PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint BackPage Press LimitedPublisher BackPage Press Limited

This book offers a unique insight into the land and water speed record-breaking dynasty. Gina Campbell, last surviving member of a remarkable dynasty, will forever be most closely associated with the fatal attempt by her father to break the water speed...

In his national bestseller, Soccernomics, Simon Kuper pioneered a new way of looking at soccer, the world's most popular game, through his witty and meticulous use of data. In Soccer Men, Kuper explores the heart and soul of the sport by getting up close...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250016980Author Bill RodgersFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Thomas Dunne BooksPublisher Thomas Dunne BooksWeight(grams) 531g

Budge Rogers: A Rugby Life is the long overdue biography of one of rugby's most iconic players, Derek Prior Budge Rogers. The story of the wing forward who lit up rugby grounds around the world in the 1960s and 1970s with dazzling and determined wing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781414386782Author Rich FroningFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

Born and brought up in the Mallorcan town of Manacor, amongst a family of successful sportsmen, Rafael has been playing tennis from the age of three. By five he was going to tennis club twice a week. At 12 he had won Spanish and European titles for his...

'I'm no angel.' Bernie Ecclestone. Born into poverty, Bernie Ecclestone has made himself a billionaire by developing the world's second most popular sport - Formula One racing. Private, mysterious and some say sinister, the eighty-year-old criss-crosses...

"It is the intensity of the football, of how the people live football in Liverpool, all the Liverpool fans around the world. It is not a normal club, it is a special club." (Jurgen Klopp). As innovative as Arsene Wenger and as crowd-pleasing as...

YES! YES! YES! Daniel Bryan is the real deal. Everyone's favourite underdog, he's proven to the world and to all of WWE that looks can be deceiving. Just ask everyone who's ever underestimated him...right before he went out and whipped the WWE Universe...

This book is about the beginning of Sir Alex's football career, until the year 2000. 1999 was an outstanding year for Alex Ferguson - not only did he lead Manchester United, the most glamorous club in the world, to a unique and outstanding treble...

There is no doubt that Bill Shankly was one of the greatest managers of all time. The former miner took over at Second Division Liverpool in 1959. The changes he made there were nothing short of revolutionary and few would argue that it was he who...