Extra Time And Its Still A Funny Old Game

Author : Ian St. John
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780091742515
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extra Time and It's Still a Funny Old Game written by Ian St. John and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous journey through the terraces, dressing rooms and board rooms of professional football. Saint and Greavsie, popular football and television personalities, provide observations on the current game, its players and managers and recall past soccer heroes.

Author : Santiago Melazzini
Publisher : La Marca Editora
ISBN 13 : 9789508891266
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football written by Santiago Melazzini and published by La Marca Editora. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs by Santiago Melazzini.

Author : I John
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jimmy Greaves written by I John and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James 'Jimmy' Peter Greaves MBE, born on 20th February 1940, in Manor Park, east London, England, UK then brought up in Hainault, Essex was a professional footballer who played as a forward. He's England's 4th-highest international goalscorer with 44, including a record 6 hat-tricks, Tottenham Hotspur's highest scorer with 266, and the highest scorer in the history of English top-flight football with 357 goals. He finished as the 1st Division's top scorer in 6 seasons, being inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame. Jimmy began his professional career at Chelsea during 1957 then played in the following year's FA Youth Cup final. He scored 124 First Division goals in just 4 seasons before transferring to A.C. Milan for £80,000 in April 1961. His time in Italy wasn't happy, so he returned to England with Tottenham Hotspur for £99,999 in December 1961. Whilst playing for Spurs he won the FA Cup during 1961-62 then 1966-67, the Charity Shield in 1962 & 1967, plus the European Cup Winners' Cup during 1962-63, the year that Greaves came closest to winning a league title, as Tottenham were runners-up. He moved to West Ham Utd in a player-exchange in March 1970 then retired the following year. After 4-years away from the sport he returned to football at the non-league level, despite his alcoholism. During a 5-year spell he played for Brentwood, Chelmsford City, Barnet, and Woodford Town before permanently retiring from the game during 1980. Jimmy scored 13 goals in 12 England under-23 internationals followed by 44 goals during 57 full England internationals from 1959 - 1967. He played in the 1962 & 1966 FIFA World Cup finals, but was injured in the group stage of the 1966 World Cup, losing his 1st team place to Geoff Hurst, who kept Greaves out of the first team in the final. Although England lifted the World Cup, Jimmy wasn't given a winners medal until a change of FIFA rules during 2009. He was also part of the squad that came 3rd in UEFA Euro 1968, although he didn't play in the finals.

Author : Morris Gleitzman
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1743480709
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extra Time written by Morris Gleitzman and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 13-year-old Matt is discovered impressing the livestock in an Aussie country town with his remarkable soccer skills, he's offered the chance of a lifetime – a try-out at one of Europe's biggest and most glamorous soccer clubs. His younger sister Bridie goes with him as his manager and tells us their story – warts, goals and all. The funny and moving story of a sister's love for her brother, and how it survives everything fate throws at it, including the millions of pounds and mountains of pressure at the top of the world's most popular sport. A funny and moving story from one of Australian's most entertaining authors. 'He is one of the finest examples of a writer who can make humour stem from the things that really matter in life.' The Guardian, UK

Author : Jimmy Greaves
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 0748112200
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saint And Greavsie's Funny Old Games written by Jimmy Greaves and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint and Greavsie, sport's most loved double-act, have entertained millions of people over the years - first on the football pitches of their respective clubs and countries, then later together on the nation's television screens. They've collected a vast array of stories along the way from fellow sportspeople and pundits: some comical, some crazy, and most downright unbelievable, but all of them thoroughly entertaining. In Saint and Greavsie's Funny Old Games the duo have reunited to tell the very best of these anecdotes in their own unmistakeable style. Containing tales from the dressing-room, secrets about some of the world's biggest stars, and amazing facts from across the sporting spectrum, this hilarious book is the perfect read for any sports fan.

Author : Stuart Maconie
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409005755
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hope and Glory written by Stuart Maconie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hope and Glory Stuart Maconie goes in search of the days that shaped the Britain we live in today. Taking one event from each decade of the 20th century, he visits the places where history happened and still echoes down the years. Stuart goes to Orgreave and Windsor, Wembley and Wootton Bassett, assembling a unique cast of Britons from Sir Edmund Hillary to Sid Vicious along the way. It’s quite a trip, full of sex and violence and the occasional scone and jigsaw. From pop stars to politicians, Suffragettes to punks, this is a journey around Britain in search of who we are.

Author : Joy Hendry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134609469
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan at Play written by Joy Hendry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the myth, so abused by the mass media, that the Japanese are a grey, anonymous mass of efficient, obedient workers. The articles shed light on a Japan outside officialdom, a lively Japan of tumultuous and independent thought, inefficient and aesthetic, pleasure-loving, aggressive and wasteful, creative and anti-authoritarian. The book's truly international contributors examine the role in modern Japanese society of a range of leisure and play activities, from drinking to travel, football to karaoke, tattoos to rock fandom. They explore how things which seem like play in one context are deadly serious in another, and how the fun and enjoyment may be achieved in unexpected ways. They also draw attention to the importance of such activities in understanding the deeper structure and meaning pervading all areas of the society in which they take place. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Sociology, Anthropology and Cultural Studies.

Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848766491
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football Is a Funny Old Game written by Kenneth Burke and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurie Top is a talented footballer with a wayward personality. He loves women and has disastrous dalliances with a Page 3 girl and a Miss World. Risk is Laurie’s buzzword, gambling is his personal philosophy and he is up to his neck in debt to his bookmaker. Now Laurie’s football manager is becoming tired of his millionaire ways, and a clash is brewing between the old and new generation of football – as the dour manager threatens to call time on his playboy lifestyle. Football is a Funny Old Game is the second book by Kenneth Burke and this satire on the beautiful game contains home truths about modern football.

Author : Pete Randall
Publisher : Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks
ISBN 13 : 1861514417
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Funny Old Game written by Pete Randall and published by Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÿWho are the mysterious children who meet up periodically to play dazzling, almost magical football? Why do they never seem to age ? and why do they turn up not only in different places but in different decades, sometimes different centuries? And who is the boy with the mysterious hawk-like eyes who wanders the ages without ever getting any older? This intriguing work of imagination follows the subtle link between a group of youngsters, a football and the passage of time.

Author : Stephen Walsh
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780577656
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices Of The Old Firm written by Stephen Walsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated edition of Voices of the Old Firm tells the story of Rangers and Celtic in the words of those who can say 'I was there'. By interviewing players, managers but above all supporters of the two great clubs, Stephen Walsh has built up a unique portrait of sixty years of football in the city. Full of evocative social and historical detail, the book surveys all the great moments since the war - the ups and downs, the triumphs and disasters. What was it like to be in Lisbon for Celtic's epic 1967 European Cup victory, or in Barcelona for Rangers' European triumph of 1972? The different 'voices' which describe these and many other key events include some of the greatest players ever to pull on a green or a blue jersey and they have vivid tales to tell of encounters on the field. But the book also hears the voices of those who have spent their time standing on the terraces or sitting in the stands cheering on their heroes. Ordinary supporters tell of their adventures at home and abroad while following their clubs with sometimes ridiculous levels of devotion. In their own words, they tell of great games of football, but they also describe the fabric of the fan's life - the buses, the songs, the drink, the clothes, the bigotry and the passionate emotion which marks Glasgow out from almost all other footballing cities. This classic oral history has been brought fully up to date with the addition of new material reflecting the way the teams have come to dominate the Scottish football scene in the last ten years. Highlights include Celtic's pilgrimage to Seville for the UEFA Cup final and Rangers' unforgettable championship win of 2005.