Richer Than God: Manchester City, Modern Football and Growing Up

Richer Than God: Manchester City, Modern Football and Growing Up
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Publisher : Quercus
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9781623655778
ISBN-13 : 1623655773
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Richer Than God: Manchester City, Modern Football and Growing Up by : David Conn

Download or read book Richer Than God: Manchester City, Modern Football and Growing Up written by David Conn and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richer Than God is an authoritative, emotional, provocative account of Manchester City's takeover by Sheikh Mansour, culminating in their remarkable last minute Premier League title victory in May 2012. By placing the club's extraordinary current rise in the wider context of its patchy modern history, this is also the story of English football's transformation--from the battlegrounds of the 1980s to today's moneyed, seated, global entertainment. Conn is led to question the very nature of football clubs and being a supporter, the underlying values and running of what used to be called "the people's game." A labor of love, this powerfully told account of Manchester City's fall and rise, based on meticulous research over many years, and exclusive access and interviews with key figures, is written in the gripping, revelatory style Conn has made his trademark.

Match! Joke Book

Match! Joke Book
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9781509825011
ISBN-13 : 1509825010
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Match! Joke Book by : Macmillan Children's Books

Download or read book Match! Joke Book written by Macmillan Children's Books and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover over four hundred of the funniest football jokes from the makers of Match! the UK's best football magazine – you'll laugh your football socks off! Match! Joke Book is a hilarious mix of football quips, puns, knock-knock jokes and shaggy-dog stories. The Sweetest Stars Sergio Agu-AERO (Manchester City) Lee KIT-KAT-termole (Sunderland) MARS Bender (Bayer Leverkusen) ROLO Touré (Liverpool) John TERRY'S CHOCOLATE ORANGE (Chelsea) Can you think of any more? Discover more footy fun in this awesome series, with MATCH! Incredible Stats and Facts, MATCH! Football Puzzles, MATCH! Build Your Own Club and MATCH! England Football Heroes.

I'm Not Really Here

I'm Not Really Here
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 9781409021865
ISBN-13 : 1409021866
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Book Synopsis I'm Not Really Here by : Paul Lake

Download or read book I'm Not Really Here written by Paul Lake and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Lake was Manchester born, a City fan from birth. His footballing talent was spotted at a young age and, in 1983, he signed coveted schoolboy forms for City. Only a short time later he was handed the team captaincy. An international career soon beckoned and, after turning out for the England under-21 and B teams, he received a call-up to the England training camp for Italia '90. Earmarked as an England captain in the making, Paul became a target for top clubs like Manchester United, Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool, but he always stayed loyal to his beloved club, deeming Maine Road the spiritual home at which his destiny lay. But then, in September 1990, disaster struck. Paul ruptured his cruciate ligament; sustaining the worst possible injury that a footballer can suffer. And so began his nightmare. Neglected, ignored and misunderstood by his club after a succession of failed operations, Paul's career began to fall apart. Watching from the sidelines as similarly injured players regained their fitness, he spiralled into a prolonged bout of severe depression. With an enforced retirement from the game he adored, the death of his father and the collapse of his marriage, Paul was left a broken man. Set against a turning point in English football, I'm Not Really Here is the powerful story of love and loss and the cruel, irreparable damage of injury; of determination, spirit and resilience and of unfulfilled potential and broken dreams.

Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780141926544
ISBN-13 : 0141926546
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Fever Pitch by : Nick Hornby

Download or read book Fever Pitch written by Nick Hornby and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR* Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic 'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book. . . inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' Independent For many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. But, for Nick Hornby, his devotion to the game has provided one of few constants in a life where the meaningful things - like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships, both parental and romantic - have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal. Brimming with wit and honesty, Fever Pitch, catches perfectly what it really means to be a football fan - and in doing so, what it means to be a man. 'Hornby has put his finger on truths that have been unspoken for generations' Irish Times 'Funny, wise and true' Roddy Doyle

Simply Red

Simply Red
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Publisher : Black & White Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9781785303319
ISBN-13 : 1785303317
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Simply Red by : John Scally

Download or read book Simply Red written by John Scally and published by Black & White Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It's a funny old game.' - JIMMY GREAVES From golden balls to golden balls-ups, this kit bag of double entendres, outrageous quips and quotes is guaranteed to tickle your funny bone. A must for all Man Utd fans. 'SIMPLY RED captures many of the laughs associated with Manchester United.' - KEN DOHERTY 'A must-read not just for United fans, but for every football fan out there!' - SIMON DELANEY

The Bromley Boys

The Bromley Boys
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Publisher : Portico
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9781909396074
ISBN-13 : 1909396079
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Bromley Boys by : Dave Roberts

Download or read book The Bromley Boys written by Dave Roberts and published by Portico. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that inspired the major motion picture 'I loved it ... extremely funny. A must-read for anyone who loves football.' Peter Crouch In the late 1960s, in the warm glow of England winning the World Cup, Dave Roberts, like most teenage boys his age, was football mad. There was just one difference: rather than supporting the likes of Arsenal or Manchester United, Dave’s team of choice was the ever so slightly less glamorous Bromley Football Club – one of the last genuinely amateur football teams left, fighting for survival in the lowest non-league division. This book is the story of Bromley’s worst ever season. It is a funny and heart-warming tale of football at the very bottom: Dave turns up to each match with his football boots in his bag, just in case the team are a player short; the crowd is always announced as 400 as no-one can be bothered to count; the team ship so many goals that in one match, the taunting opposition fans actually lose count of the score. It’s easy being a football fan when your team are always winning. The Bromley Boys is the touching true story about supporting a club through thin and even thinner: proof that the more your team may lose on the pitch, the more there is to gain on the terraces.

The Club

The Club
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages : 381
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ISBN-10 : 9781328506450
ISBN-13 : 1328506452
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Club by : Joshua Robinson

Download or read book The Club written by Joshua Robinson and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2018 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two veteran sports writers and editors take readers inside the history of the most-watched sports league on earth -- England's Premier League.