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An A-Z of Aston Villa footballers who have featured for England in the World Cup and European Championships from 1949 to 2014. This includes a description of every game played in both competitions and a wealth of interesting facts. If players have played for more than one club while representing England...

Many have claimed that Duncan Edwards was potentially the greatest footballer to emerge from the British Isles. Unquestionably he was the greatest schoolboy footballer the British game has ever produced, a midfield Colossus who dominated top flight, European and International games while still a teenager.Edwards...

Between June and July 2010, 64 games of football determined that Spain was the world’s best team at the World Cup in South Africa. South Africans – and the world – celebrated a brilliantly hosted tournament where everything worked like clockwork and the stands were packed with vuvuzela-wielding...

Like in the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 edition, this edition from the Kings of London Epic Poem series will entertain any who have a sharing love between poetry or sport. The epic poem is built from matchly (added to every match in the season) poetic segment, referring to the up or down, cheering or...

Are you a fan of Northampton Town Football Club? Do you attend every home game and follow the Cobblers progress through the season? Are you familiar with the history of this popular Midlands club? If so, you why not test your knowledge with The Cobblers Quiz Book. With so many fascinating facts about...

"Totally Crazy but Totally TRUE Gambling Scams, Cons & Hustles" Discover the stories behind some of the most insane and audacious Gambling scams from across the world, and the Internet too. Not many people have ever beaten the Casino or the  Bookmakers either, and those that did will normally...

An hilarious look at all things Cockney and Cockneyland itself.  Everything from Cockney culture to a unique look at London’s  football clubs and their fans. Learn how to speak Cockney rhyming slang, and all the Cockney jokes.  Page after page of pictures and rib tickling descriptions...

Highs and lows in the history of Luton Town as told to a female fan by amongst others...Mick Harford, Bob Morton, Brian Stein, Trevor Peake, Steve Foster, Paul Walsh, Wally Shanks, Ken Hawkes, Ian Feuer...David Kohler, David Pleat, Lennie Lawrence, Wayne Turner, Clive Goodyear, John Moore, Kathy Leather...Nick...

Michele è poco più che un ragazzino, gioca da centravanti e sta per esordire in serie A. La notte prima del grande giorno, lui e il vecchio massaggiatore Manon si raccontano i debutti dei campioni, da Buffon a Messi, da Totti a Maldini, da Ibrahimovic a Pato e Balotelli; e le prodezze di Pelé e...

Brief Description: Are you a Charlton Athletic supporter? Do you attend every home game and follow the club’s progress in the League? Can you name all the great players, past and present, who have passed through Charlton’s doors? If you think you are an expert on The Addicks, the time has come to...

The 1953 FA Cup Final between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers had everything: seven goals, a dramatic comeback and, in Stanley Matthews, a fairytale hero. Sixty years on, this legendary game has come to represent a golden age - the year when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned and a British expedition conquered...

The year 2001 will be remembered as the year that time finally ran out on Coventry City. For 34 years they had graced the elite of English football. In ten of those seasons they carried the threat of relegation into their last match. In all ten they had survived, leaving pulses racing and finger nails...

Champions is the story of Burnley's Championship title win of season 2015/16. In the world of the big city football clubs, Burnley remains the club from the small town that continues to defy the odds through its good management and careful budgeting. This is the third promotion to the Premier League...

'Aloof, solitary, impassive, the crack goalie is followed in the streets by entranced small boys. He vies with the matador and the flying aces, an object of thrilled adulation. He is the lone eagle, the man of mystery, the last defender' Vladimir Nabokov Albert Camus, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,...