Publication date: 2000-05-15
Price: £16.99
Review David Lloyd: The Autobiography - Anything But Murder / HarperCollinsWillow:Former England cricket coach David Lloyd answers some of the nagging questions that all fans of the sport have asked themselves since his decision to stand down from the post in 1999. Three years in one of sport's most pressurised jobs left Lloyd-affectionately known as Bumble-to become vastly disillusioned at the hierarchical nature of English cricket's upper echelons. Lloyd's time, he writes, was being taken up more and more by the politics surrounding the sport-something which interested him much less than the more traditional day-to-day coaching side of the job. The former Lancashire batsman-and later coach of the same club-took over as boss of the national side in 1996 and set about the task of rebuilding the confidence in English cricket right down to grass roots level. But little did he know what would stand in his way. While it is true that Lloyd did not help his cause-with his forthright and frank rather than diplomatic attitude-it is clear his path to success was blocked deliberately, and the Accrington lad even goes so far as to say he feels he was 'treated like a naughty schoolboy'. This book is a frank and enlightening account of Bumble's three years in charge of England-and will clear up some of the up to now unanswered questions thrown up by his decision to quit as national coach. -Andrea Thursday.
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1991-12-31
Dewey code: 796.323092
RRP: £4.28
Price: £1.22
Review Drive: the Story of My Life / Bantam USA:
Publication date: 2007-11-08
RRP: £16.99
Price: £0.01
Review Lewis Hamilton: The Full Story / Icon Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-10-04
Dewey code: 796.334092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.94
Review Tormented: The Andy McLaren Story / Mainstream Publishing:
Authors
- Sally Jenkins
- Lance Armstrong
Publication date: 2004-07-31
Dewey code: 796.62092
Price: £7.73
Review Every Second Counts / Broadway Books:In the opening of Lance Armstrong's memoir, Every Second Counts (coauthored by Sally Jenkins), he reflects: "Generally, one of the hardest things in the world to do is something twice. " While he is talking here about his preparation for what would prove to be his second consecutive Tour de France victory in 2000, the sentiment could equally be applied to the book itself. And just as Armstrong managed to repeat his incredible 1999 tour victory, Every Second Counts repeats-and, in some ways exceeds—the success of his bestselling first memoir, It's Not About the Bike. Every Second Counts confronts the challenge of moving beyond his cancer experience, his first Tour victory and his celebrity status. Few of Armstrong's readers will ever compete in the Tour de France (though cyclists will relish Armstrong's detailed recounting of his 2000-2003 tour victories), but all will relate to his discussions of loss and disappointment in his personal and professional life since 1999. They will relate to his battles with petty bureaucracies, such as the French court system during the doping scandal that almost halted his career. And they will especially relate to constant struggles with work/life balance. In the face of September 11-which arrives halfway through the narrative (just before the fifth anniversary of his diagnosis)-Armstrong draws from his experiences to show that suffering, fear and death are the essential human condition. In so openly using his own life to illustrate how to face this reality, he proves that he truly is a hero-and not just because of the bike. In Every Second Counts he is to be admired as a human being, a man who sees every day as a challenge to live richly and well, no matter what hardships may come. [+]-Patrick O'Kelley, Amazon. com.
Authors
- Alan Kennedy
- John Williams
Publication date: 2005-09-08
Dewey code: 796.334092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.00
Review Kennedy's Way: Inside Bob Paisley's Liverpool (Mainstream Sport) / Mainstream Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-09-16
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £7.99
Price: £9.99
Review It's True, It's True / HarperCollinsWillow:
Publication date: 2006-08-17
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.15
Review Booey: Around in Circles - the Eric Boocock Story / Football World:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-01-04
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £8.00
Price: £4.99
Review Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made / Yellow Jersey Press:Back in the Fall of 1993, When Michael Jordan first told his teammates he was leaving (basketball) Armstrong told him, "Man, you now have the two scariest things imaginable: all the money in the world and all the time in the world. " No. 23 took the game of basketball and made it his own. Between 1991 and his retirement in 1999 the six times NBA Championship-winning Chicago Bulls were Michael Jordan. On the way he became the richest, most globally famous sports star since Muhammad Ali. In Playing For Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist David Halberstam-a consistently intelligent and articulate explorer of America's sporting history-turns a critical eye on the big fella, and gauges the impact Jordan had on his sport and an increasingly American-flavoured world. Halberstam looks beyond the court at the business of basketball-the iniquities of the franchise system; the overwhelming financial power of being the top man; the fragility of that position-and places Jordan at the centre of a commercial revolution that outgrew the game and sport itself. Basketball became the sport that tied American urban culture, Afro-American street style and hip-hop beats to the billion-dollar multi-national mule train. Coke, Big Macs and B-Ball-Jordan was the public face of each. But Playing for Keeps is equally strong on the personalities behind the power plays-in interviews with Jordan's family and fellow "players" on and off the court, Halberstam keeps his journalistic sense in the illusion-rich atmosphere of the big game and more often than not gets the goods. [+]The section on Jordan's first "retirement" in 1993, when, accused of gambling, he turned his attention to playing pro-baseball, is particularly revealing. This is a fascinating, subtly-crafted work which climbs high above the usual weary trawls through the careers of sports celebrities, and slam dunks in style. -Alex Hankin.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-09-28
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.02
Review Seve: Golf's Flawed Genius / Robson Books Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2007-08-28
Dewey code: 796.720975
RRP: £8.35
Price: £4.38
Review Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR / Three Rivers Press (CA):
Publication date: 2002-08-19
Price: £18.99
Review Cloughie: Walking on Water / Headline Book Publishing:Whether it was winning league championships, landing back-to-back European Cups or riding the tidal wave of booze that washed him out of the game in 1993, there has never been any question of Brian Clough "quietly" getting on with things-and retirement hasn't changed that, as his boisterous new autobiography Cloughie-Walking on Water demonstrates. The man who in the twilight of his successful and controversial managerial career habitually proffered a paternal cheek for embarrassed reporters to kiss goodbye, has clearly lost none of his distaste for any convention he hasn't started himself, or his delight in causing a stir. The book is crammed with frank opinions, fruitily expressed: from analysing today's game (Arsene Wenger's all-conquering Arsenal: "a bad-tempered, bad-mannered team" that "leave a nasty taste"); pithily settling ancient scores (on how he became Hartlepool manager: "Their chairman, a little bloke called Ernie Ord who turned out to be an absolute shit, offered me the job. "); or taking the "broad view" of the game in general (coaches stepping up to be managers: "by and large these are men who tend to drown in their own self-delusion"). Certainly, much of the history in this book got pretty solid coverage in his original autobiography nearly 10 years previously, but an older, wiser Cloughie has had time to consider matters. On the whole he's still sure he was right all along, but now there are counter-melodies to the familiar trumpeting. Some bitterness, some regret, too, at cruelties he perpetrated, or allowed to stand; at his swan-song season, when, grip loosened by drink, he let his beloved Forest slip out of the Premiership; and mostly that he never orchestrated a reconciliation with deceased sidekick Peter Taylor, after a petty dispute had poisoned the most important relationship of his football life. It's this flavour of lament in the blend of rheumy-eyed reflection and full-flowing rant, that reminds us they just don't make them like Brian any more. Yes, Cloughie sometimes loses its way-lurching from one subject to another, or going back over the same ground—-and the trademark boasting has long since become a rather boring self-parody, but the light still burns, and it's not hard to feel grateful for that. -Alex Hankin.
Publication date: 1996-01-03
Dewey code: 796.357092
RRP: £8.12
Price: £5.67
Review Cobb: a Biography / Workman Publishing:
Publication date: 2006-09
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.73
Review The Legends of Birmingham City / Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd:
Authors
- Nick Harris
- Peter Clifford
Publication date: 1986-05-26
Price: £24.95
Review Fast Freddie: Double World Champion Freddie Spencer - The Man and His Machines (Motorcycles & Motorcycling) / Motor Racing Publications Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-01-29
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.50
Price: £3.24
Review Go Long!: My Journey Beyond the Game and the Fame / Ballantine Books:
Publication date: 2007-09-01
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.01
Review The Real Bill Shankly / Trinity Mirror Sport Media:
Authors
- Gary Brozek
- Gilbert Tuhabonye
Publication date: 2007-06-07
Dewey code: 967.57204
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.81
Review This Voice in My Heart: A Genocide Survivor's Story of Escape, Faith and Forgiveness / Amistad Press,U.S. (a division of HarperCollins General Books Group):
Authors
- Philip Porter
- Paul Skilleter
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.04
Review Sir William Lyons: The Official Biography / Haynes Manuals Inc:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2002-07-31
Dewey code: 629
RRP: £35.00
Price: £13.28
Review Bugatti: Bk. H834: A Racing History: Bk. H834 / J H Haynes & Co Ltd:
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