Top 10 Sport including Special Offers

March 2004

'An exquisite, highly personal memoir'
Henry Sutton

'Here's proof that anglers are not all pipes and lassitude . . . a beautiful philosophy of what lies under the surface'
Dexter Petley

'Andrews writes fluently, with colour, vision and an eye for detail. It steers just the right side of becoming mawkish, but he writes from the heart, perhaps for all who have lost loved ones...it is a book that will touch the heart of everyone who still mourns someone who meant so much. And it may show them a way out the other side.'
Classic Angling

'What Jack Alexander gives us is an intriguing and often moving history...Alexander's book is full of absorbing stories. He claims that it was 16 years in the writing and I believe him. Judging by the footnotes, appendices, bibliographies and acknowledgements his research was extraordinary.'
Scottish Sunday Herald

'this book is of wider interest than just to Hearts fans or students of Edinburgh's history. Anyone who wants to see how a team of footballers can translate that familiar sporting cliche of "taking the fight to the opposition" into reality should read it. This is, quite simply, the best football-related book of the year.'
Times of London

 

Rangers entered the new world of sport and big business in April 1986 when they signed Graeme Souness, a man with no previous connections to a club steeped in its own historical traditions. These traditions are ineluctably intertwined with those of their great Glasgow rivals, Celtic, whose origins as an Irish Catholic club set up the rivalry that became known as the Old Firm, once said to be 'a business based on bigotry'.

Celtic were slow to react to the Souness challenge at Ibrox, especially when Souness was joined by a new owner at Rangers, millionaire businessman David Murray, but after years of squabbling at Celtic Park, Celtic's saviour arrived in the form of expatriate millionaire Fergus McCann.

'an honest, yet balanced account'
Scotland on Sunday

Having been involved in more than 350 championship fights - over 100 of them world title fights - Mickey Vann is recognised as one of the world's top boxing referees, and one of the most controversial. GIVE ME A RING covers Vann's professional refereeing career in all its glory and documents his unusual early life in the circus and a Dickensian foster home.

'Number 7 in TOP TEN SPORTS BOOKS'
The Independent

'Many sporting autobiographies are hamstrung by the subject's concern over his public image, but not this one...refreshingly and at times startlingly honest...The result is hilarious and extremely well-written. Definitely a must-read, whether you are a boxing fan or not.'
Yorkshire Evening Post

Alan Edge is a lifelong Liverpool supporter who grew up in an environment where team loyalties were embedded in working-class culture. He was shocked to discover that his young son not only had not intention of following in his father's footsteps as a Liverpool fan, but preferred a Newcastle shirt because it was more fashionable!

 

 

 

'Excellent...where McColl excels is in the detail, where all good lessons are learned.'
The Herald

'Well worth a look, especially for Celtic fans.'
Scotland on Sunday

'this is a solid and dispassionate examination of Celtic bosses through the years that benefits from the lack of tabloid-style received wisdom that often blights football.'
Kettering Evening Telegraph

'An ideal stocking filler for that special green and white fan in your life!' Shoot Monthly

During his long reign at Celtic, Jock Stein was a legendary figure in the world of football.

He led a youthful Celtic side to a memorable European Cup triumph in Lisbon in 1967, and was in charge of the home-grown Celtic teams which won nine Scottish league championships in a row as well as numerous domestic trophies.

 

 

Many football fans say it at the outset of every league campaign: 'I will go to every game this year.' In season 2002-03, Wigan Athletic-mad Martin Tarbuck managed it. And what a year to do it! Wigan Athletic not only reached the quarter-finals of the Worthington Cup, an unprecedented feat for the club, but also clinched promotion to Division One for the first time in its history.

If you're a serious Wigan Athletic Fan, then LET'S HANG ON is as essential as a pre-match pie and pint.'
Wigan Evening Post

'I enjoyed this book. The author is clearly a football fan, rather than simply a one-eyed, one-club fundametalist. And though his loyalties are never in doubt, it's his love of the game that shines through and will sell this book.'
Shoot Monthly

When Fergus McCann took over at Celtic Park, rescuing the club from the brink of bankruptcy, he was hailed as a saviour.

But behind the scenes all was far from well, with Celtic hitting the headlines only for the wrong reasons. McCann fell out with managers, his fellow directors, the media, the players and football's governing bodies.

He claimed there was no crisis at Celtic Park - but others disagreed.

Allan Caldwell has sensational new evidence regarding McCann's personal life and business background, and he reveals the bitter confrontations at Parkhead as the stubborn owner's fiery temper was unleashed on everyone who crossed him.

A coach transported to the field in a hearse as he played dead. An English manager taken at gunpoint to an Argentinian jail after trying to sign that country's World Cup captain. The hero of 1966 who talked his team out of going on strike on the eve of a title decider.

All are part of the British professionals' story of life in the North American Soccer League in the '70s and early '80s, when everyone - from star turn to unsung journeyman - had the chance to play alongside Pelé, Cruyff, Beckenbauer and Eusebio in the greatest galaxy of world stars ever assembled in one league.

'A welcome addition to football's bibliography.'
Programme Monthly

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