Scouting for Moyes

Scouting for Moyes
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Publisher : Sportsbooks
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 1899807950
ISBN-13 : 9781899807956
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Scouting for Moyes by : Les Padfield

Download or read book Scouting for Moyes written by Les Padfield and published by Sportsbooks. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All football clubs have them – scouts. Men (for they are almost always men) who watch teams to check how they play, who watch players to see how good they are. Even in these high tech days of video analysis and Prozone (a system which tells how far each player has run in a game, how many passes and how successful they were etc.) football clubs could not operate without the human element of scouting.Les Padfield, though, is not your typical scout. Not many are published poets! A Londoner, he was a schoolboy footballer of great promise – as he writes, Harry Redknapp, the Spurs manager, used to provide the crosses for him to score when they were schoolboys. He chose though to become a teacher of Physical Education, English and other subjects. He became a scout when, having been persuaded to attend a match at Millwall he meets an old friend, John Sainty, the chief scout at Preston North End. Sainty tells Les that the club’s manager, David Moyes, is looking for a London-based scout. And even though Les moved on to Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League, the title ‘Scouting for Moyes’ was too good to resist.Les tells of the frustrations of the job, the perks – a trip to Nigeria to watch a teenage prodigy who revealed he preferred to study medicine – and the precarious nature of football life. Gary Megson, Bolton’s manager who had also employed Les when he was in charge at West Bromwich Albion and Nottingham Forest, is sacked at the end of 2009. Les also offers the insight of a professional into the world,of football. Surprisingly his views are very often those of an outright fan.His royalties from the book will be donated to Cancer Research.

The Nowhere Men

The Nowhere Men
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 9781448149964
ISBN-13 : 1448149967
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Nowhere Men by : Michael Calvin

Download or read book The Nowhere Men written by Michael Calvin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The Times British Sports Book Award 2014. A fascinating insight into the enclosed world of football scouts in the UK A teenaged boy plays football in a suburban park. His name is Raheem Sterling. The call is made: “Get down here quick. This is something special”. Another boy is 8, going on 28. His name is Jack Wilshere. The referee, an Arsenal scout, spirits him away from Luton Town. A young goalkeeper struggles on loan at Cheltenham Town in League Two. His name is Jack Butland. Within months he will be playing for England. Welcome to football’s hidden tribe. Scouts are everywhere yet nowhere, faceless and nameless, despite making the informed decisions worth millions. Award-winning sportswriter Michael Calvin opens up their hidden world, examining their disconnected lifestyles, petty betrayals and unconsidered professionalism of men who spend long, lonely hours on the road.

The Scouts' Book of Hereos

The Scouts' Book of Hereos
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Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015038721810
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Scouts' Book of Hereos by : Frederick Haydn Dimmock

Download or read book The Scouts' Book of Hereos written by Frederick Haydn Dimmock and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Congressional Record

Congressional Record
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Total Pages : 1536
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D01398395R
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Rating : 4/5 (5R Downloads)

Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Congressional Record

Congressional Record
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Total Pages : 674
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ISBN-10 : PURD:32754085118366
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Football Manager Stole My Life

Football Manager Stole My Life
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Publisher : BackPage Press
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9780956497178
ISBN-13 : 0956497179
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Football Manager Stole My Life by : Iain Macintosh

Download or read book Football Manager Stole My Life written by Iain Macintosh and published by BackPage Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football Manager stole my life reveals the cult behind a computer game that, since its debut in 1992, has sold 20m copies and become a part of football culture.

Silver Bay

Silver Bay
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780698156357
ISBN-13 : 0698156358
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Silver Bay by : Jojo Moyes

Download or read book Silver Bay written by Jojo Moyes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a surprising and moving romance set in an old-fashioned seaside town on the verge of unwelcome change Liza McCullen will never fully escape her past. But the unspoiled beaches and tight-knit community of Silver Bay offer the freedom and safety she craves—if not for herself, then for her young daughter, Hannah. That is, until Mike Dormer arrives as a guest in her aunt’s hotel. The mild-mannered Englishman with his too-smart clothes and distracting eyes could destroy everything Liza has worked so hard to protect: not only the family business and the bay that harbors her beloved whales, but also her conviction that she will never love—never deserve to love—again. For his part, Mike Dormer is expecting just another business deal—an easy job kick-starting a resort in a small seaside town ripe for development. But he finds that he doesn’t quite know what to make of the eccentric inhabitants of the ramshackle Silver Bay Hotel, especially not enigmatic Liza McCullen, and their claim to the surrounding waters. As the development begins to take on a momentum of its own, Mike’s and Liza’s worlds collide in this hugely affecting and irresistible tale full of Jojo Moyes’s signature humor and generosity.