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Total Football: Under Pressure

The Rough Diamonds are a
close knit-team. Kev
their captain makes sure
they work hard and play
hard. When he thinks the
boys are not pulling
their weight or external
issues are hurting the
team his leadership
always comes up trumps.
This is the second novel
in an action-packed
series.

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Class Of 92 Manchester United

In May 1992 Fergies
Fledglings won the FA
Youth Cup for the first
time in a generation,
since the era of George
Best. Soon, many of the
kids from that side were
seizing their opportunity
in the first team and
winning more silverware.
They played a key role in
United's famous
Treble-winning side of
1999 and continue to have
an impact on the club.
The Class of 92 tells the
story of how this group
of players came together
and learned their trade
under Eric Harrison, the
youth team manager. It
follows their development
during 1991-92 as they
went on their cup run,
and discovers the
fascinating story of what
happened next to the
other members of this
illustrious side. Youth
Team football is always
exciting because of the
tantalising prospect of
seeing players who might
be on the verge of
greatness. Such potential
was never more completely
fulfilled than with the
lass of 92. Their story
reveals how sometimes
dreams really do come
true.

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Thierry Henry - Lonely At The
Top

Details: Thierry Henry ?
gifted, charismatic and
a genuinely world class
footballer ? has always
been a prolific
goalscorer of natural,
apparently effortless
brilliance. Impossibly
good on his day, he has
passed into Arsenal
legend as the hero of a
team that finally ended
Manchester Uniteds
domination, winning two
league titles and three
FA cups. He was also
instrumental in
Frances World Cup
and European Cup glories
in 1998 and 2000
(becoming Frances
record goalscorer), and
continued his incredibly
successful career at
Barcelona by winning the
treble in his second
season. But as he
approached the autumn of
his career,
Thierrys crown
began to slip ? from the
infamous ?Hand of Gaul?
incident to a dismal
World Cup 2010 campaign.
Suddenly, for the first
time, a player who
Ars?ne Wenger once dubbed
?the greatest striker
ever? was not universally
loved and admired. A man
who had spent his career
at the very top of the
game, raised above his
peers on a torrent of
extraordinary statistics
and trophies, began to
learn how lonely such a
position could be. So who
is the real Thierry
Henry? Drawing from
numerous interviews and
impeccable sources, as
well as his own
observations over the
course of Henrys
entire career,
award-winning author
Philippe Auclair has
produced the most
complete portrait of the
Arsenal hero ever to be
written. Clear-eyed,
lyrical and passionately
argued, Thierry Henry:
Lonely at the Top is a
biographical essay, in
the fullest sense of the
word ? and as raw,
shocking and
thought-provoking as it
is celebratory of
Henrys outstanding
flair and talent. Ideal
for: Fans and admirers of
Thierry Henry and Arsenal
Football Club. A
fascinating and unusual
book, one that may just
usher in a new age of
football biography. This
hardback measures: 24 x
15.8 x 3cm. Pages 336

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The Vision Book Of Football
Records 2012

The Vision Book of
Football Records 2012 is
a colourful and quirky
action-packed gift book,
crammed with records,
facts, stats and amazing
feats from the world's
greatest game. The
perfect Christmas present
for lads, dads and
granddads alike, the
book includes an entry on
every English league team
plus all the Scottish SPL
clubs. The book features
all the top footie
nations, the major
European and world clubs
from Barcelona to Boca
Juniors - and a monster
squad of current and
former football legends.

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A Matter Of Life And Death Or
How To Wean A Man Off Football

From TV's best-loved
impressionists comes this
comic account of one
woman's attempt to make a
football fan give up
football. Alistair
McGowan loves football in
an insane, almost
compulsive way. Living
without it would be -
well, it wouldn't be
living at all. So when
Ronni Ancona - his former
girlfriend, and hater of
all things football -
comes up with a plan to
wean him off the
beautiful game, he is
initially stunned,
outraged. But soon
Alistair starts to
discover that there may
be life beyond the back
pages. In alternating
chapters, Ronni and
Alistair lead us through
a hilarious story of
withdrawal in this funny
and original take on the
age-old battle of the
sexes.

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50 People Who Fouled Up
Football

Despite its immense
wealth, and the high
public profile it enjoys,
English football is not
a land of milk and honey.
The national side has won
the World Cup only once
when England staged the
tournament in 1966 and
the woeful performances
in recent years would
suggest that Sir Alf
Ramsey's success will
retain its unique status.
"50 People Who Fouled Up
Football" casts a
sceptical eye on the game
in this country. It looks
at the game as it really
is, through the gaze of
an outsider, who grew up
loving the game but who
has been turned off by
the excesses of players,
managers, broadcasters
and fans, and
increasingly by the rich
men who own and run the
clubs. The big bang came
in 1992, when the
Premier League went its
own merry way, aided by
the millions that Sky
television found to ease
the passage. Now the game
is richer, and can
attract the world's
leading stars, but it is
poorer in spirit. The old
football community means
little to these Masters
of the Universe. The old
links between club and
community have been
ruined, and many players
live in a different
world, where they feel
free to behave as they
like. The book names the
guilty, who include
those on the fringes of
the game as well as the
ones at the heart of it.
Indignant in the right
sense, it is a lament
for a spoilt game, and a
world that has vanished.
The 50 People are: Alan
Green; Alan Hansen; Alan
Hardaker - FA
administrator; Alan
Sugar; Alf Ramsey; Ashley
Cole;. Bill Shankley; Bob
Shennan; Charles
Hughes;Cristiano Ronaldo;
David Baddiel; David and
Victoria Beckham; Denis
Wise; Derek Hatton; Don
Revie; Garry Cook; George
Best; George Graham;
Golden Generation; Gordon
Taylor; Graham Poll;
Graham Taylor; Harold
Thompson; Hooligans;
Hunter Davies; Ian
Wright; Joey Barton; John
Hall/Freddie Shepherd;
Jonathan Barnett & Mel
Stein; Jose Mourinho; Ken
Bates; Lord Kinnaird;
Nick Love; Paul
Gascoigne; Paul Ince;
Peter Kenyon; Peter
Ridsdale; Peter Swales;
Piers Morgan; Pini
Zahavi; Richard Keys;
Richard Scudamore;
Robinho; Roman
Abramovich; Sam
Allardyce; Sepp Blatter;
Steve McLaren; Terry
Venables; and Tony Banks.

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Jeffanory: Stories From Beyond
Soccer Saturday

Are you sitting
comfortably? Then Jeff
will begin.. . The
universally-loved,
award-winning host of Sky
Sports' Soccer Saturday
and Channel 4's
Countdown, and author of
the bestselling
Jelleyman's Thrown a
Wobbly, returns with a
Jackanory-style,
football-flavoured
narrative which gathers
together the funniest,
weirdest, most tragic,
most heart-warming,
under-the-radar stories
of the football season.
The book is stuffed to
the gunnels with
behind-the-scenes
revelations, opinions
and personal anecdotes
from Jeff, and has a
strong leaning towards
the absurdities of both
the highest levels and
the grass-roots of the
game. From the
Macclesfield goalkeeper
booked for using a golf
tee to take his goal
kicks, to the
unintelligible ranting
and raving of South
American dictator
chairmen. Let Jeff be
your trusted guide
through the madness of
the football season, and
let Jeffanory supply you
with a veritable treasure
trove of great anecdotes
to take to the pub.

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Heroes, Hairbands And Hissy
Fits: Chappers' Modern History
Of Football

Alice bands, orange
bladed boots and socks
worn over the knee.
Mansions in Cheshire,
WAGs and written-off
Ferraris. Referees with
headsets, fourth
officials, and an
incomprehensible amount
of stoppage time. There
is only so much a true
football fan can take,
and in Heroes, Hairbands
and Hissy Fits, Mark
Chapman (aka Chappers)
gives full vent to his
feelings, as only the
host of a football
phone-in can. Football
phone-ins are on the
hitlist too, by the way.
It is football as we know
it, told from the heart.
With his trademark
down-to-earth wit, he
takes aim at everyone
from Sepp Blatter to
MOTD, kit designers and
replica shirt wearers
(don't put your age on
the back of the shirt,
lads), trophy
presentations and
tournament draws. From
his first footballing
memory to watching his
son grow up idolising
Premier League
millionaires, Chappers'
book is a timely tirade
as well as a love song to
the beautiful game.

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