Sport
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Hardback | Pub: 04 Oct 2018£16.99
Advantage Play tells the dramatic stories of the key technological breakthroughs in four thousand years of sporting history used to gain an advantage in sport. Novel materials are never far away: rubber for rugby and tennis balls, carbon fibre for...
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Hardback | Pub: 04 Apr 2017£17.99£14.39In this definitive biography, veteran sportswriter Tom Callahan shines a spotlight on one of the greatest golfers ever to play the game, Arnold Palmer. The winner of more than ninety championships, including four Masters Tournaments, Arnold Palmer...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2012£20.00
Since 1875 Hibernian Football Club has been an integral part of sporting life in the City of Edinburgh and Port of Leith; its early history up to 1946 has been brilliantly documented in The Making of Hibernian trilogy by Alan Lugton. John...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Jul 2018
£14.99£11.99Over the past decade, an audacious programme called Football Dreams has held trials for millions of 13-year-old boys across Africa looking for football’s next superstars. Led by the Spanish scout who helped launch Lionel Messi’s career at...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Nov 2016£14.99
For 125 years the British & Irish Lions have stood out as a unique emblem in world sport. They represent the best of the best from the four Home Nations, coming together every four years under a united badge to take on the rugby greats of the...
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Paperback | Pub: 20 Jul 2020£16.99
Labels such as ‘icon’ or ‘legend’ are rarely attached to one individual to the degree that they are to Bruce Lee. He only made a handful of films, yet four and a half decades after his untimely death at the age of 32, the Little Dragon’s...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Sep 2018£9.99
Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid chronicles the author’s decade-long obsession with televised sport during his teenage years in the 1980s. Charting similar waters to Nick Hornby’s classic Fever Pitch, but with the hopeless devotion of a...
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Hardback | Pub: 24 Sep 2015£12.99
The 2015 Rugby World Cup in England is set to be the biggest, brightest and most successful tournament to date, as the world’s top teams compete for the coveted Webb Ellis Cup and inspire new participants and fans worldwide across 44 days and...
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Paperback | Pub: 30 Jul 2015£9.99
Summer 2014. Diego Costa has arrived for his first day as a Chelsea player and he has something he wants to say to his new team-mates. He’s been practising a single, short sentence. Actually, a mission statement. “I go to war – you...
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Paperback | Pub: 08 Jun 2017£14.99£11.99The European Game is an adventure. Over three months Dan Fieldsend travelled the continent discovering the methods for success used at some of the biggest clubs in Europe, from Ajax and Juventus, to Feyenoord, Inter Milan, Bayern Munch, Benfica,...
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Paperback | Pub: 17 Aug 2015£8.99
With a total of more than 500 goals in careers that saw them turn out for the likes of Hibernian, St Mirren, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Torino, Joe and Gerry Baker are two of the greatest strikers Scotland never had. While Liverpool-born...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Nov 2019£9.99Fernando Ricksen was a fighter. As a footballer, Ricksen carved out a fearsome reputation for Rangers, Zenit St Petersburg and Holland. Throughout his time at Ibrox, his aggressive approach won him hero status among the Rangers fans, and off the...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Jul 2014£9.99On 17 July 1993, Graeme Obree stunned the international world when he emerged from obscurity to smash Francesco Moser’s World Hour Record. The Flying Scotsman is Graeme Obree’s searing autobiography, from his tough upbringing in Ayrshire...
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Hardback | Pub: 10 Oct 2019£17.99£14.39Listed as one of the five worst international selections ever, and described in a book about Scottish rugby as ‘a full back slower than your average prop’, Ian Smith cheerfully won eight caps for Scotland in a career that saw him score every...
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Paperback | Pub: 26 Feb 2016£8.99
This is the story of when Grand Prix was out of control. Mechanical failure, lethal track design, fire and incompetence snuffed out dozens of eager young drivers, who had become almost expendable. It was the ’60s and early ’70s and this...
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Hardback | Pub: 03 Sep 2020£17.99
The 1970 World Cup is widely regarded as the greatest ever staged, with more goals scored per game than any tournament since. But more than just the proliferation of goals was the quality of the overall football, as some of the greatest teams ever...
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Hardback | Pub: 10 Oct 2019
£9.99£7.99Andy Bollen has created a fantasy football museum to collect together a treasure trove of Scottish football exhibits that ranges from Jimmy Johnstone’s oar to Aggie the tea lady’s trolley. Learn why Puskas and Socrates should’ve been...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Apr 2018£8.99
No bicycle repair was ever made easier by turning your bike upside down. White shorts are for other people. A helmet perched on the back of your head is perfect if you ride your bike backwards – These and a host of other handy pointers jostle...
