Desert Island Books: 89 books
by Martin Godleman
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Di Canio's double bluff against Barthez? Hurst's six against Sunderland? Victory at the Emirates? Sealey's brace at Wembley? Bobby Moore in goal against Stoke? Tevez's winner at Old Trafford? Or perhaps the 0-3 Cup humiliation at Mansfield? There are thousands of West Ham games over the past 100 years...
by David Woods
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Bristol Bulldogs, a name to conjure with for all speedway fans, even though their throaty roar hasnt been heard since 1978. Riders of the calibre of Mike Beddoe, Dick Bradley, Bill Clibbett, Eric Collins, Phil Crump, Roy Dook, Steve Gresham, Phil Herne, Billy Hole, Tormod Langli, Fred Leavis, Cordy Milne,...
by Elizabeth Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Bram Stoker's Dracula, first published in 1897, continues to fascinate readers to this day. The novel's centenary was celebrated by an international assembly of scholars in Los Angeles. Elizabeth Miller, organiser of the Acdemic Program, has selected and edited twenty papers for this anthology. While...
by Jim Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
The year 2001 will be remembered as the year that time finally ran out on Coventry City. For 34 years they had graced the elite of English football. In ten of those seasons they carried the threat of relegation into their last match. In all ten they had survived, leaving pulses racing and finger nails...
by David Woods
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Volume One of David Woods' four-volume history of Bristol City, from the club's beginnings to the modern age. Bristol City enjoy a long, though relatively unsuccessful history. Without doubt, their most successful period is the one covered by this book. During those years, City were runners-up in the...
by Clive Leatherdale
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Take an elegant, stately cruise ship ... Add 800 cantankerous pensioners ... Send them off to the Amazon for six weeks ... Ask the passengers to keep diaries ... Then publish those diaries! And what do you get? Murder on the Marco Polo - Well, Not Quite. On 10 January 2011 the cruise ship Marco Polo...
by Clive Leatherdale
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
A match-by-match account of every game the Republic of Ireland have played in the World Cup - including qualifying rounds and finals - from 1934 to the 1994 competitions. This unique history is an emotive journey through the trials and tribulations of Ireland's quest for football's ultimate prize. Clive...
by Clive Leatherdale
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
The fourth edition of this encyclopaedic history of England's attempt to win soccer's World Cup. It includes all qualifying games up to 2006, as well as the World Cup finals. Reviews: "Probably the most entertaining football book I have ever read." David Barber, FA News. "Detailed enough to be compulsive," FourFourTwo
by Clive Leatherdale
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
The recent history of Aberdeen FC is among the most eye-catching of any British club. It was not always so. Created in 1903, Aberdeen FC were for many years dismissed as provincial under-achievers. By 1966 when this book takes up their story the Dons had won the Scottish championship just once in 63...
by Andy Riddle
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Argyle should be up there with the best. Plymouth is now the largest city in England with a League club never to have graced the top division. On several occasions over the decades they nearly achieved the ultimate promotion, only to slide back and take their place with the also-rans. The Modern Era...
by Thomas Taw
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Third Lanark no longer exist. The only League champions in Britain ever to go bust. The end was ignominious: Third could not even afford to buy footballs. But once, they defied all the odds to become Scottish champions. Third Lanark was a club of proud origins, a proud history and a sad ending. Third...
by Colin Farmery
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
They were the Golden Years of Portsmouth Football Club. In 1948 the south coast club was celebrating its 50th anniversary and the then Chairman Vernon Stokes had a simple message for the team: 'Win the Championship for the Jubilee!' Under the astute guidance of manager Bob Jackson, 'Pompey' found the...
by Simon Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
The Second World War was one of the most turbulent periods for British football. It was an era when clubs struggled to find men to fill their eleven threadbare shirts, players laid down their lives for their country in combat, and those who remained behind performed remarkable feats. Stoke Citys Tommy...
by Donald Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
He was a Highland League sensation, scoring so many goals that newspapers lost count. Big clubs tried to lure him, but Davy Johnston said no, preferring to work in a smelly laundry. At last he joined Aberdeen, signed by Eddie Turnbull who compared him to Bobby Charlton. For three seasons Johnston was...