David Tossell: 11 books
Nobody Beats Us
The Inside Story of the 1970s Wales Rugby Team
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In the 1970s, an age long before World Cups, rugby union to the British public meant Bill McLaren, rude songs and, most of all, Wales. Between 1969 and 1979, the men in red shirts won or shared eight Five Nations Championships, including three Grand Slams and six Triple Crowns. But the mere facts...
Tony Greig
A Reappraisal of English Cricket's Most Controversial Captain
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Tony Greig is one of most colourful figures in English cricket history. As a player he stirred up drama and excitement whenever he stepped on the field and as national team captain he was accused of 'betrayal' after taking a leading role in the formation of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket. David...
Tommy Doc
The Controversial and Colourful Life of One of Football's Most Dominant Personalities
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Tommy ‘The Doc’ Docherty was a combative Scotland international wing-half who became a brilliant but erratic manager. His 1960s Chelsea team was a glorious reflection of his colourful personality, and a decade later he reinvented his relegated Manchester United side as a vibrant attacking force.
He...
Sex & Drugs & Rebel Tours
The England Cricket Team in the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Throughout the 1980s, England lurched between the highs of Ashes victories and the lows of on-field humiliation and a series of controversies involving tabloid scandals, South African rebel tours and Pakistani umpires. The Ashes were won dramatically in 1981, regained by David Gower's team in 1985 and...
Seventy-One Guns
The Year of the First Arsenal Double
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
In the summer of 1970, England was buzzing about the new football season. More than 30 million television viewers had watched the previous year's FA Cup final and the brilliant Brazilians had dazzled audiences during the Mexico World Cup. The new age of televised highlights meant that football's profile...
by David Tossell
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
A journey through the life of Derek Dougan
by David Tossell
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Following On tells the stories of the fourteen 1998 Under-19 World Cup winners against the backdrop of a historic year (2009) for their sport. There are Ashes heroics, clashes with county committees, fallouts with selectors and even a campaign of death threats. The result is a fascinating insight into...
by David Tossell
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
When England cricket captain Tony Greig announced that he intended to make the West Indies grovel, he lit a fire that burned as intensely as the sunshine of Britains long hot summer of 1976. Spurred on by what they saw as a deeply offensive remark by a white South African, Clive Lloyds touring team made...
Playing for Uncle Sam
The Brits' Story of the North American Soccer League
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
A coach transported to the field in a hearse as he played dead. An English manager taken at gunpoint to an Argentinian jail after trying to sign that country's World Cup captain. The hero of 1966 who talked his team out of going on strike on the eve of a title decider. All are part of the British...
The Great English Final
1953: Cup, Coronation & Stanley Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The 1953 FA Cup Final between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers had everything: seven goals, a dramatic comeback and, in Stanley Matthews, a fairytale hero. Sixty years on, this legendary game has come to represent a golden age - the year when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned and a British expedition conquered...
Big Mal
The High Life and Hard Times of Malcolm Allison, Football Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Malcolm Allison is one of the most controversial figures of the last half-century of English football. Leader of the famed 'West Ham Academy', his playing career was cut short by the loss of a lung to tuberculosis. Disillusioned, he became a professional gambler before acknowledging that football...