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| KEVIN MITCHELL Book Number: 83374 |
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The man who could 'float like a butterfly, sting like a bee' did more than give birth to an aphorism that became part of the language of his era. Muhammad Ali is perhaps the most famous sportsman ...
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| JON SMITH AND JAMES OLLEY Book Number: 84019 |
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"An ownership group in Odessa had approached Italian agent Roberto De Fanti - who had until January of that year been Director of Football at Sunderland - to express an interest in buying Sheffield...
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| ROB STEEN Book Number: 86218 |
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In the words of Nelson Mandela: "Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire... Sport speaks to people in a language they understand." If you were lucky enough to be one o...
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| AMERICAN SPORTS PUB. CO. 1917 Book Number: 87117 |
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From the arenas of Ancient Rome to modern day bouts, a boxer's success has been measured by his balance, strength and recovery. Judging distance, position, arm movement and fist shape all contribu...
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| T. S. DALE Book Number: 87118 |
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First published in 1905, the book was created as the definitive manual for polo, explaining its origins and rules, offering strategic advice, and reflecting on what might be to come. Dale's instru...
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| R. C. LEHMANN Book Number: 87119 |
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"Huge bulk, a city scarce so large, with Dardan rowers in triple bank, the tiers ascending rank o'er rank" wrote Gyas, the captain and coach of the Chimaera. Justly indignant at the ineptitude and...
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| MATT ELLIOTT Book Number: 87090 |
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A rich rugby history about a rivalry which never fails to have fans on the edge of their seats. The book chronicles the first 40 rugby internationals between England and New Zealand, from 1905 to ...
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| Unknown Book Number: 87223 |
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Set of facsimile reprints contains Classic Guide to Rowing (192pp), Classic Guide to Polo (256pp) and Classic Guide to Boxing (152pp). With original archive photos. Buy all three of the Classic G...
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| MIKE AYLWIN Book Number: 87695 |
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The Guardian sportswriter has teamed up with the Director of Rugby at Saracens and Chief Executive of Harlequins to ask if rugby is on the brink of expansion, or is the game on the brink of implosi...
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| LAURENCE GRIFFITHS Book Number: 87910 |
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The gentle tap of leather on willow, the players in white bounding towards the boundary for a catch, the stumps flying, the wicket keeper triumphant - the smells and sounds and sights of an English...
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| SCOTT MURRAY Book Number: 87881 |
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A lively, cherry-picked story of the old First Division, English football's top flight between 1888 and 1992. Rich with humour and packed with new research, experience final-day drama involving Hu...
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| HARRIET GRIFFEY Book Number: 86787 |
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Sub-titled 'Everyday Exercises to Stretch and Strengthen Your Posture' this pictorial guide is produced on pale orange or blue coloured pages with attractive modern fonts and design and clear colou...
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| JOHN MCENROE Book Number: 88583 |
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A book we seed at number one. 15 years after his massive bestseller Serious, John McEnroe came back and was ready to talk about the game of tennis, its winners and losers. What's it like playing ...
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| DAVID PEACE Book Number: 88724 |
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In 1959, Liverpool Football Club was in the Second Division. They had never won the FA Cup. 15 seasons later, the club had won three League titles, two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup. Liverpool Footba...
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| DAVID MILLER Book Number: 88898 |
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In a wonderfully nostalgic book, Miller recaptures the heady days of summer 1966 when England won the World Cup in front of their own euphoric fans. Nearly 50 years on, he evokes the eager anticip...
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| WILLIAM HEATH ROBINSON Book Number: 88487 |
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Best known for his hilarious drawings of zany contraptions, William Heath Robinson started out as a watercolour artist and quickly turned to the more lucrative field of book illustration, developin...
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| ANNE HOLLAND Book Number: 89171 |
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The Grand National is one of the most famous horse races and an outstanding sporting event which challenges men, women and diverse thoroughbred horses every year. The race was a spectacle, from the...
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| TOM PEACOCK Book Number: 88691 |
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From the excellent Haynes Guides stable, whether you be a punter or admire the athleticism of the horse, this excellent guide covers types of racing on the flat, jump racing and all weather racing,...
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| LUCY LUCAS Book Number: 89121 |
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Yoga is an ancient practice, harnessing the breath and strengthening the body to boost physical health and mental wellbeing whether you want to relax, become more flexible or get in touch with your...
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| T. E. SALTER Book Number: 89267 |
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'Abridged for the use of young anglers', the Angler's Guide was first published in 1816, and advertised as being a complete practical treatise on Angling. It is 'the art of trolling and fishing fo...
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| KEVIN JEFFERYS Book Number: 89273 |
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Pictured is Maud Watson, winner of the inaugural Ladies' Singles title in 1884, the handsome, moustachioed three-times Wimbledon Champion Arthur Gore, seen in 1901, the French superstar Suzanne Len...
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| SANJEEV SHETTY Book Number: 89430 |
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Football is not a case of putting together a team of highly trained players and hoping for the best. Central to the business of winning are the strategy, the tactics, the formations and the decepti...
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| JOHN GRISHAM Book Number: 89228 |
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Glory never dies. Neely Crenshaw was the best quarterback ever to play for the Messina Spartans, the state's most legendary high school football team. 15 years later with the glory days far behind...
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| EDITED BY RICHARD WHITEHEAD Book Number: 89324 |
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Football is one of the nation's favourite sports and The Times has compiled 50 of the greatest matches of all time. This is football history as it happened straight from the pages of this beloved p...
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| JOHN DUNCAN Book Number: 89828 |
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Writer and former broadcaster who began his career alongside Des Lynam at BBC Radio Brighton, John Duncan explores the idiosyncratic, historical and absorbing game of cricket. He chooses to do so ...
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| SANJEEV SHETTY Book Number: 89874 |
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Sub-titled 'A Graphic History of the World's Most Iconic Soccer Tactics' this Subbuteo-styled graphic book lays out the tactics and gives a new understanding of how the beautiful game is played. T...
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| RAYMOND ARSENAULT Book Number: 89712 |
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Arthur Ashe was a Wimbledon champion and human rights activist whose mid-life death from AIDS, contracted through a blood transfusion, was a loss to sport and to public life. This big biography do...
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| STEPHEN SLATER Book Number: 90122 |
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Cast your minds back, F1 fans, to those heady days of the mid-?80s, when turbocharging came of age in a chaotic blur of regulations, gamesmanship, driving talent and colossal horsepower that tyres,...
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| DANIEL TAYLOR Book Number: 90154 |
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When this book was first published in 2007 it was hailed as an all-time Manchester Utd classic and featured in The Times all-time top 50 sports books. We have here the 2011 updated and revised pape...
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| EDITED BY WILLIAM SCOTT WILSON Book Number: 89198 |
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Unlike karate, judo or aikido, swordsmanship is not a means of self-defence, but it is nevertheless hugely popular not only in Japan but also in the US and round the world. The author believes that...
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