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Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
You become a footballer because you love football. And then you are a footballer, and you?re suddenly in the strangest, most baffling world of all. A world where one team-mate comes to training in a bright red suit with matching top-hat, cane and glasses, without any actual glass in them, and another has so many sports cars they forget they have left a Porsche at the train station. Even when their surname is incorporated in the registration plate....
Author
Publisher
Duckworth Overlook
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Laid out here are the eleven key elements that make up footballing greatness, in a thinking-man's study of the beautiful game. Highlighting such elements as Vision, Toughness, Graft, Endurance and Madness, A Cultured Left Foot is an insightful and amusing study into the finer points of the world's favourite game.
Author
Publisher
Ebury Digital
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
An ordinary lad from Sheffield, Jamie Vardy has become known as an against-the-odds footballing hero the world over. Yet a few years ago, things couldn?t have been any more different. Rejected as a teenager by his boyhood club, Jamie thought his chance was gone. But from playing pub football and earning Đ30 a week at Stocksbridge Park Steels, while still working in a factory, his off-the-cuff performances saw him rise. Jamie had a wild and turbulent...
4) Hammered
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
His crime was renting a property in which cocaine with a street value of Đ645,000 was found during a police raid in May 2005. Ward never denied his involvement. Broke and with no permanent home at the time, he had accepted Đ400 a week from an acquaintance to rent a house for an unspecified "stash". He was sent down for eight years. He has always acknowledged his "stupid, terrible mistake". A footballer who was once spoken of as England material,...
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