Deadlines And Darts With Dele My World Cup Diary

Author : Jonathan Northcroft
Publisher : BackPage Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781909430358

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Deadlines and Darts with Dele: My World Cup Diary by Jonathan Northcroft Pdf

How did you spend the long, hot, World Cup summer of 2018? For Jonathan Northcroft, chief football writer of The Sunday Times, it was 35 unforgettable days spent criss-crossing Russia, covering the biggest sporting event on the planet. He reported on a new England team: young, daring and successful both on the pitch, where they defied expectations to reach the semi-final, and off it, where they took on reporters in a darts challenge. He discovered a different Russia to the hostile state he was warned about in pre-tournament security briefings: open, friendly and football mad. And he experienced the rush of working as a football writer at the very top of the game: meeting the players, going to the games, and battling the deadlines. This is his personal account of a month when we dropped everything to watch the best World Cup for a generation.

Author : Arrigo Sacchi
Publisher : BackPage Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781909430549

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The Immortals by Arrigo Sacchi Pdf

When Arrigo Sacchi’s Milan destroyed Steaua Bucharest 4-0 in the 1989 European Cup final, everything changed. Studded with the world-class talents of their legendary three Dutchmen – Ruud Gullit, Marco Van Basten and Frank Rijkaard – they threw off the shackles of Italian football’s defensive traditions to pioneer a modern, high-pressing and boldly attacking approach. Sacchi revolutionised football and altered the DNA of the next generation of coaches, including Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp. This is the story of the crowning achievement of one of football’s greatest-ever teams – told by the man who built it. This is the story of The Immortals.

Author : Jonathan Northcroft
Publisher : Nation Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781568589831

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Fearless by Jonathan Northcroft Pdf

“The odds of the Foxes winning the Premier League at the start of the season were the same as the Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster being proven to exist, Christmas being the warmest day of the year in England or Barack Obama playing cricket for England after he left the Oval Office.” —ESPN On March 21, 2015, Leicester City lost their sixth game in eight matches. Without a victory for two months, they were rock bottom of the English Premier League, heading for certain relegation to the lower division, and about to miss out on a once-in-a-lifetime financial bonanza of TV money and opportunity. As usual, London and Manchester would clean up, the rich would get richer, and the hopes of the small, overlooked, multicultural city would sink. But Leicester started to win. They stayed up; and in the new season they kept on winning. Favorites for relegation, rank outsiders as potential champions (their 5000—1 odds were the longest in the world for any major sporting event), their entire squad had been assembled for less than the cost of a single player for Manchester City. Still, they beat Manchester City and Liverpool, Tottenham and Chelsea: the most incredible cast of written-offs, grafters, misfits, and journeymen came together for the season of their lives. This is the story every underdog dreams of, every small town with a much larger, more affluent neighbor hopes for, and a triumph that defies logic and expectation.

Author : Lu Martín,Pol Ballús
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1909430404

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Pep's City by Lu Martín,Pol Ballús Pdf

Author : Peter Schmeichel
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781529354140

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One: My Autobiography by Peter Schmeichel Pdf

'TERRIFIC' - Daily Mail 'ONE OF THE UNDISPUTED GREATS' - Sun 'Why me? How could a boy from a Copenhagen tower block say I want to be a champion with Manchester United and Denmark and make it happen?' Peter Schmeichel is a giant of football, who won more Premier League titles (five) than any player in his position and captained Manchester United in the incomparable, last-gasp Treble-clinching win over Bayern Munich in the 1999 Champions League final. 'I don't believe a better goalkeeper played the game,' Sir Alex Ferguson said. One: My Autobiography is Schmeichel's story. In it, he takes us inside the remarkable, winning environment of a club that transformed football during the 1990s, and on to the pitch on that crazy, breathless night in Barcelona in 1999. From Ferguson's unique gifts to Eric Cantona's unique personality, he delivers a close-up and insightful portrait of United's golden era. However, One: My Autobiography goes way beyond the pitch. Schmeichel has an incredible family story to tell, starting with his father, Antoni, a brilliant Polish jazz musician who battled demons and for years kept a momentous secret from those around him. And he explores what he has been able to pass on to his own son, Kasper - himself a Premier League-winning goalkeeper and number one in the Danish national side. Peter's life after football, seldom straightforward, is described with astonishing candour. One: My Autobiography is about football, origins, journeys and legacy.

Author : Andrea Pirlo
Publisher : BackPage Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781909430181

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Andrea Pirlo: I Think Therefore I Play by Andrea Pirlo Pdf

Author : Jonathan Wilson,Philippe Auclair,Jonathan Northcroft,Tim Vickery,Andy Brassell,Brian Oliver,Simon Hughes
Publisher : Blizzard Media Ltd
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Twenty Six by Jonathan Wilson,Philippe Auclair,Jonathan Northcroft,Tim Vickery,Andy Brassell,Brian Oliver,Simon Hughes Pdf

First published in September 2017, Issue Twenty Six contains 23 articles in 7 sections, including Simon Hughes on what fan-owned clubs say about alienation from the Premier League, Priya Ramesh on how Dirk Kuyt helped Feyenoord end an 18-year drought, Manoj Narayan on why last season's champions are facing relegation in a shake-up of Indian football, and Philippe Auclair, Jonathan Northcroft, Tim Vickery and Brian Oliver, among others, look at their favourite stadiums.

Author : Graham Hunter
Publisher : BackPage Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780956497154

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Barça by Graham Hunter Pdf

FC Barcelona are the greatest football team in the world, the greatest for a generation and possibly the greatest of all time. This is the inside story of how the team came to redefine how the game is played, told by the journalist closer to it than any other. This edition contains a new epilogue reflecting on the departure of Pep Guardiola and Spain's victory at Euro 2012.

Author : Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Publisher : Crown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307420657

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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal Pdf

A memoir in bite-size chunks from the author of the viral Modern Love column “You May Want to Marry My Husband.” “[Rosenthal] shines her generous light of humanity on the seemingly humdrum moments of life and shows how delightfully precious they actually are.” —The Chicago Sun-Times How do you conjure a life? Give the truest account of what you saw, felt, learned, loved, strived for? For Amy Krouse Rosenthal, the surprising answer came in the form of an encyclopedia. In Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life she has ingeniously adapted this centuries-old format for conveying knowledge into a poignant, wise, often funny, fully realized memoir. Using mostly short entries organized from A to Z, many of which are cross-referenced, Rosenthal captures in wonderful and episodic detail the moments, observations, and emotions that comprise a contemporary life. Start anywhere—preferably at the beginning—and see how one young woman’s alphabetized existence can open up and define the world in new and unexpected ways. An ordinary life, perhaps, but an extraordinary book.

Author : Darlene Irwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN : 096944950X

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The Student Music Organizer by Darlene Irwin Pdf

Author : George Saunders
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408837351

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Tenth of December by George Saunders Pdf

The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America' Sunday Times WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx(TM) in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.

Author : Nicola Yoon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780385683661

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Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon Pdf

New York Times Bestseller My disease is as rare as it is famous. It's a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, but basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in fifteen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives. New next door neighbors. I look out the window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black--black t-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. I want to learn everything about him, and I do. I learn that he is funny and fierce. I learn that his eyes are Atlantic Ocean-blue and that his vice is stealing silverware. I learn that when I talk to him, my whole world opens up, and I feel myself starting to change--starting to want things. To want out of my bubble. To want everything, everything the world has to offer. Maybe we can't predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It's almost certainly going to be a disaster.

Author : Iain Macintosh,Kenny Millar,Neil White
Publisher : BackPage Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computer games
ISBN : 9780956497178

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Football Manager Stole My Life by Iain Macintosh,Kenny Millar,Neil White Pdf

Football Manager stole my life reveals the cult behind a computer game that, since its debut in 1992, has sold 20m copies and become a part of football culture.

Author : Erik Brynjolfsson,Andrew McAfee
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393239355

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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson,Andrew McAfee Pdf

A pair of technology experts describe how humans will have to keep pace with machines in order to become prosperous in the future and identify strategies and policies for business and individuals to use to combine digital processing power with human ingenuity.

Author : Gabriella Coleman
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781689837

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Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy by Gabriella Coleman Pdf

The ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists collectively known as Anonymous—by the writer the Huffington Post says “knows all of Anonymous’ deepest, darkest secrets” “A work of anthropology that sometimes echoes a John le Carré novel.” —Wired Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise of this global phenomenon just as some of its members were turning to political protest and dangerous disruption (before Anonymous shot to fame as a key player in the battles over WikiLeaks, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street). She ended up becoming so closely connected to Anonymous that the tricky story of her inside–outside status as Anon confidante, interpreter, and erstwhile mouthpiece forms one of the themes of this witty and entirely engrossing book. The narrative brims with details unearthed from within a notoriously mysterious subculture, whose semi-legendary tricksters—such as Topiary, tflow, Anachaos, and Sabu—emerge as complex, diverse, politically and culturally sophisticated people. Propelled by years of chats and encounters with a multitude of hackers, including imprisoned activist Jeremy Hammond and the double agent who helped put him away, Hector Monsegur, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy is filled with insights into the meaning of digital activism and little understood facets of culture in the Internet age, including the history of “trolling,” the ethics and metaphysics of hacking, and the origins and manifold meanings of “the lulz.”