The Jimmy Hill Story

Author : Jimmy Hill
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 147364268X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jimmy Hill Story written by Jimmy Hill and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In many ways Jimmy Hill was football. He was a true great of the game.' - Greg Dyke, Chairman of the Football Association Jimmy Hill died on 19th December 2015 but very much remains a household name. Renowned for his outspoken views, recognised the world over by his famous profile, only he saw football from every side: as player, coach, manager, chairman, television executive and broadcaster. A versatile player with Brentford and Fulham in the fifties, he was a qualified coach by the age of 24. In the sixties his innovative management technique took Coventry from the bottom of the Third to the First Division, where they stayed for 32 years. For over twenty years, at different times, he was a director and chairman of Coventry, Charlton and Fulham. As chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association he took on the authorities and successfully fought for freedom of contract and the abolition of the maximum wage. But it is as a TV presenter that Jimmy became best known. After five years as Head of Sport at LWT, he moved to the BBC to become a national institution in the seventies and eighties on Match of the Day. Tragically Jimmy Hill succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease in his last few years, A moving epilogue has been included which reflects on Jimmy's remarkable life. Jimmy tells the story of his rise from humble beginnings to distinction both on and off the field with modesty and humour.

Author : Jimmy L. Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735240701
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Inspired Me: My Life Journey From Gardi to Tomahawk Mountain written by Jimmy L. Hill and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy's inspirational journey from living in a tar paper shack to a Fortune 500 company and beyond.

Author : Sam Allardyce
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 1472232666
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Sam: My Autobiography written by Sam Allardyce and published by Headline. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football fans will love this insight into the life and mind of Big Sam. With nearly 20 years as a player - plus almost 25 years as a coach and manager - under his belt, Sam Allardyce is one of the most recognisable figures in British football. 'Big Sam' has been a robust defensive general throughout the seventies and eighties, and an imposing touchline presence as a gaffer since 1994. Over the last four decades, Allardyce has seen it all. The game he so loves is radically different to that in which he made his debut back in 1973, and in telling his wonderfully colourful story for the very first time, Allardyce talks intriguingly about the changing face of players and managers. His autobiography positively crackles with characteristic insight, honesty and hard-hitting opinions.

Author : James J. Wagner
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780451409270
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jimmy the Wags written by James J. Wagner and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gritty, outrageous memoir of life on the streets as a PI in New York. Stocked with a stellar cast of swells and skells...rarely anything but fun.' - New York Post 'James Wagner is one tough, street-smart hombre, and has some high-wire tales of the PI life to tell. But for my money, the main attraction of this brutally honest book is that it is consistently laugh-out-loud funny. You gotta love this guy.' _ Nicholas Pileggi, author of 'Casino''

Author : Doug Hill
Publisher : Untreed Reads
ISBN 13 : 1611872189
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saturday Night written by Doug Hill and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saturday Night is the intimate history of the original Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy. This is the book that revealed to the world what really happened behind the scenes during the first ten years of this groundbreaking program, from the battles SNL fought with NBC to the battles fought within the show itself. It's all here: The love affairs, betrayals, rivalries, drug problems, overnight successes, and bitter failures, mixed with the creation of some of the most outrageous and original comedy ever. "It reads like a thriller," said the Associated Press, "and may be the best book ever written about television." Available for the first time in ebook format, this edition features nearly fifty photographs of cast, crew and sketches.

Author : Jim Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785313325
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play Up Sky Blues written by Jim Brown and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play Up Sky Blues is the story of the unforgettable season when charismatic manager Jimmy Hill led the Sky Blues to the First Division for the first time in the club's history. It describes the ups and downs of an incredible season, and the stories behind all the men who brought about this unprecedented success.

Author : Andrew Ward
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781408801260
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football Nation written by Andrew Ward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich portrait of English Football from the end of the Second World War to the present.

Author : Marc Eliot
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 140005222X
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jimmy Stewart written by Marc Eliot and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Stewart’s all-American good looks, boyish charm, and deceptively easygoing style of acting made him one of Hollywood’s greatest and most enduring stars. Despite the indelible image he projected of innocence and quiet self-assurance, Stewart’s life was more complex and sophisticated than most of the characters he played. With fresh insight and unprecedented access, bestselling biographer Marc Eliot finally tells the previously untold story of one of our greatest screen and real-life heroes. Born into a family of high military honor and economic success dominated by a powerful father, Stewart developed an interest in theater while attending Princeton University. Upon graduation, he roomed with the then-unknown Henry Fonda, and the two began a friendship that lasted a lifetime. While he harbored a secret unrequited love for Margaret Sullavan, Stewart was paired with many of Hollywood’s most famous, most beautiful, and most alluring leading ladies during his extended bachelorhood, among them Ginger Rogers, Olivia de Havilland, Loretta Young, and the notorious Marlene Dietrich. After becoming a star playing a hero in Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in 1939 and winning an Academy Award the following year for his performance in George Cukor’s The Philadelphia Story, Stewart was drafted into the Armed Forces and became a hero in real life. When he returned to Hollywood, he discovered that not only the town had changed, but so had he. Stewart’s combat experiences left him emotionally scarred, and his deepening darkness perfectly positioned him for the ’50s, in which he made his greatest films, for Anthony Mann (Winchester ’73 and Bend of the River) and, most spectacularly, Alfred Hitchcock, in his triple meditation on marriage, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo, which many film critics regard as the best American movie ever made. While Stewart's career thrived, so did his personal life. A marriage in his forties, the adoption of his wife’s two sons from a previous marriage, and the birth of his twin daughters laid the foundation for a happy life, until an unexpected tragedy had a shocking effect on his final years. Intimate and richly detailed, Jimmy Stewart is a fascinating portrait of a multi-faceted and much-admired actor as well as an extraordinary slice of Hollywood history. “Probably the best actor who’s ever hit the screen.” —Frank Capra “He taught me that it was possible to remain who you are and not be tainted by your environment. He was not an actor . . . he was the real thing.” —Kim Novak “He was uniquely talented and a good friend.” —Frank Sinatra “He was a shy, modest man who belonged to cinema nobility.” —Jack Valenti “There is nobody like him today.” —June Allyson “He was one of the nicest, most unassuming persons I have known in my life. His career speaks for itself.” —Johnny Carson

Author : Harry Harris
Publisher : Ad Lib Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913543501
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Alex written by Harry Harris and published by Ad Lib Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read biography of one of the greatest football managers of all time. Sir Alex Ferguson is a former Scottish football player and was manager of Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. During his 26 years in charge of United, he won more trophies than any other manager in the history of football. Packed with nearly 80 entertaining and exclusive interviews from those who know Ferguson best – friends, colleagues, associates and those who worked with him at both Aberdeen and Manchester United share their unique insight into the innermost secrets of Ferguson’s fascinating life and hugely successful career.

Author : Richard Cox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135287775
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Sport - a Bibliography to 2000 written by Richard Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.