The Stupid Footballer Is Dead

Author : Paul McVeigh
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408193760
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stupid Footballer is Dead written by Paul McVeigh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'As footballers' biographies go, this is special. I can't remember reading another that seems to take the reader inside the subject, recalling his thought processes as they occurred, from boyhood to the Premier League. It's riveting stuff and comes with a message for everyone about how ambition can be fulfilled. I wish I'd read it 50 years ago!' - Patrick Barclay, football writer Professional football in the modern era is played every bit as much in the mind as on the pitch. More and more it's becoming clear that natural talent is nowhere near enough to sustain a career in the modern game. Players need to be smart; not academically but in terms of their thinking. The ones who are dedicated, with mental resilience and a winner's psychology are prospering and will continue to do so as the game evolves. The stupid footballer is dead. Ex-Premiership footballer Paul McVeigh looks back on his professional career and how he learned to play the mental game and gives a look behind-the-scenes into the approach of some of the game's highest performers. This book will appeal to sports fans and players who want to get inside the head of top professionals. And if there is one book to be read by players at all levels who want to improve their performance on the pitch then this is it - from someone who hit the heights in top-level sport and is driven to share what he learned along the way.

Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326175262
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between the Posts written by Michael Patterson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Adam
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681777010
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genius Within: Unlocking Your Brain's Potential written by David Adam and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of The Man Who Couldn’t Stop, David Adam now expounds on the latest research into intelligence, revealing how this revolution in neuroscience will help us access the untapped potential locked within us all. What if you have more intelligence than you realize? What if there is a genius inside you, just waiting to be released? And what if the route to better brain power is not hard work or thousands of hours of practice but to simply swallow a pill? In The Genius Within, David Adam explores the groundbreaking neuroscience of cognitive enhancement that is changing the way the brain and the mind works—to make it better, sharper, more focused and, yes, more intelligent. He considers how we measure and judge intelligence, taking us on a fascinating tour of the history of brain science and medicine, from gentlemen scientist brain autopsy clubs to case studies of mental health patients with extraordinary savant abilities. In addition to reporting on the latest research and fascinating case studies, David also goes on his own personal journey to investigate the possibilities of neuroenhancement, using himself as a guinea pig for smart pills and electrical brain stimulation in order to improve his IQ scores and cheat his way into MENSA. Getting to the heart of how we think about intelligence and mental ability, The Genius Within plunges into deep ethical, neuroscientific, and historical pools of enquiry about the science of brain function, untapping potential, and what it means for all of us. Going to the heart of how we consider, measure, and judge mental ability, The Genius Within asks difficult questions about the science that could rank and define us, and inevitably shape our future.

Author : Tim Chapman
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789734894
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coaching Winning Sales Teams written by Tim Chapman and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through extensive research into elite coaches in the world of business and sports, this book investigates the mindset, skills and behaviours required to be a top sales coach and provides a range of practical models, tools and techniques for sales leaders and professionals to use.

Author : Nick Ascroft
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472917391
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Win at 5-a-Side written by Nick Ascroft and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of years of 5-a-side football experience, this celebrated manual to 'scaled-down' soccer success covers every element of the game and features expert advice on how to organise a winning team. Written with authority, passion and a sense of fun, How to Win at 5-a-side covers all of the game's essential skills, including goalkeeping, defending, marking and shooting, as well as other less conventional but still important components, such as maintaining team moral, buttering up the referee and wasting time when your team is ahead. Illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams to show real-game situations and featuring exclusive contributions from former professional footballers and coaches, How to Win at 5-a-side is all you need to take your team to the next level.

Author : Anon
Publisher : Guardian Faber Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178335061X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Footballer: Access All Areas written by Anon and published by Guardian Faber Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered how to build a football club? What a typical match day feels like for the players on the pitch and those behind the scenes? From scouting systems to managing the big names (and their egos), merchandise deals to hotel life, the Secret Footballer takes you into the fascinating world of professional football and shows us the hidden side of a world we think we're familiar with. We get the fights and fornication, the revenge stories and scandals; he profiles the legends as well as the backroom boys and the unsung heroes. Funny, shocking and always entertaining, this is the Secret Footballer at his most revealing and irreverent yet.

Author : Anon
Publisher : Guardian Faber Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783350032
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am The Secret Footballer written by Anon and published by Guardian Faber Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of the bestselling and wildly popular I Am the Secret Footballer features a new introduction and an additional chapter. The anonymous writer of The Guardian's "Secret Footballer" column gives Premiere League fans an insider's look into the unseen world of professional football. It is often said that 95% of what happens in football takes place behind closed doors. Many of these stories I shouldn't be telling you. But I will. Who is The Secret Footballer? Only a few people know the true identity of the man inside the game. Whoever he is-and whatever team he plays for-TSF is always honest, fearless and opinionated. Here he takes readers past the locker-room door and reveals the inner-workings of a professional club, the exhilarating highs and crushing lows and what it's really like to do the job most of us can only dream of doing. TSF chronicles the exploits of his Premiership colleagues with a gimlet eye and frank humour. Managers, agents and players are not spared from his observations-their mindsets, their relationships with those outside the sport, their behaviour good and bad. In his inimitable style, TSF recounts entertaining and eyebrow-raising vignettes, naming names and dropping colourful details along the way.

Author : Martin Roderick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134324901
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Work of Professional Football written by Martin Roderick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely glamorous and for most players a career in football is insecure and short-lived. A former professional, Martin Roderick’s familiarity with the world of football is the foundation for this privileged research into a world that is typically closed to the public gaze and ignored by media reportage and academic research which prefers to focus on a small, unrepresentative group of elite players. Key themes explored within the text include: the culture of work in professional football the changing identity, orientation and expectations of players during their careers the fragile and uncertain nature of professional sport careers the performance and dramatic aspects of a career under public scrutiny the role of relationships with managers, owners, support staff and partners players' responses to the insecurities inherent in professional football such as injury, ageing, performance and transfer. The text deals with a wide range of issues of interest to sports students and academics, particularly those with a focus on the sociology of sport but also including sport development, sport management and coaching studies. The text will also be of interest to researchers in the fields of careers, industrial relations and the sociology of work.

Author : John King
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446444546
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Football Factory written by John King and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Football Factory centres on Tom Johnson, a reasoned 'Chelsea hooligan' who represents a disaffected society operating by brutal rules. We are shown the realities of life - social degradation, unemployment, racism, casual violence, excessive drink and bad sex - and, perhaps more importantly, how they fall into a political context of surveillance, media manipulation and division. Graphic and disturbing, sometimes very funny, and deeply affecting throughout, The Football Factory is a vertiginous rush of adrenaline - the most authentic book yet on the so-called English Disease.

Author : Max Allan Collins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743480567
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heat Wave written by Max Allan Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Horatio Caine and his team of forensic specialists investigate the murder of crime boss Kurt Wallace amid the underworld power struggle for control of Wallace's Miami crime empire.