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The Tour de France has it all: extremes of ego, temperature and terrain; grazes, bruises and streaks; wrecks, wheels and winding paths. Now, in celebration of 100 years of the Tour's infamous mountain section comes the ultimate tribute to cycling's greatest race. World-renowned sports photographer M...

They were the Beatles of basketball, the "Mercury" Seven in sneakers. In "Dream Team, "acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men's Basketball Team that captivated the world, kindled the hoop dreams of countless...

A sensational account of Swansea City's 2011/12 season in the Premier League covering 12 months in the life of a Welsh football club that in 2003 was just 40 minutes away from extinction and relegation from the football league. Taking up the story where he left off at the end of Walking on Sunshine,...

Wimbledon 2012 tells the inside story of the world's most famous and prestigious tournament with interviews and analysis, opinion and quotes from the stars of the show. Beyond that, photography by legendary sports photographer Bob Martin and his team of award-winning snappers capture the drama and ...

An entertaining and informative description of the 50 greatest games involving Heart of Midlothian, one of Scotland's biggest football clubs. From the club's first national honour, the Scottish Cup win of 1891, through the glorious decade that was the 1950s, to the Vladimir Romanov era and challengi...

Since 1888, Rangers and Celtic football clubs have been locked into an intense and frequently explosive rivalry: Rangers the product of West Scotland's Protestant establishment, Celtic the team founded to raise money for the Catholic underclass of Glasgow. On 2 January 2010 the two teams met in the...

On 19 May 1928, just three months after the sport had been launched in this country at the pioneering High Beech meeting, Fred Mockford and Cecil Smith introduced speedway racing to Crystal Palace with the first international match between England and Australia, the forerunner of the Test matches. ...

Sunderland Match of My Life sees a dozen all-time greats re-live the game that stands out for them in their Sunderland careers. Jim Montgomery chooses the 1973 FA Cup final where he made the greatest save ever seen at Wembley while Niall Quinn also selects a great game from beneath the old twin towe...

Fifteen of Manchester United's biggest names reflect on their most memorable games during their careers with the club. Jack Compton, John Doherty, Alex Dawson, Bill Foulkes, David Sadler, Alex Stepney, Martin Buchan, Jimmy Greenhoff, Arthur Albiston, Frank Stapleton, Lee Martin, Bryan Robson, Paul P...

Fifteen of Fulham's biggest names reflect on their most memorable games during their careers with the club. From fifties legend Tosh Chamberlain and World Cup winner George Cohen through to current club captain Danny Murphy and Europa League hero Simon Davies - others include Tosh Chamberlain, Steve...

Twelve Wolves legends have come together to tell the stories behind their favourite games from their Molineux careers. The selected games include the 1949 and 1960 FA Cup and the 1974 and 1980 League Cup Finals, the famous floodlit friendlies against Honved and Real Madrid and tussles with local riv...

Sixteen Stoke legends have come together to tell the stories behind their favourite games. Terry Conroy relives the moment his header opened the scoring in City's 1972 League Cup Final, while Mark Stein remembers another Wembley win in the 1992 Autoglass Trophy. Denis Smith recalls when Stoke took o...

The official biography of one of Britain's best-loved soccer clubs - packed with stats, facts and trivia.

Cardiff City has given every generation of its supporters a roller coaster ride of emotions that continues to this day. Celebrating this great and proud club, the book charts its history with some fantastic photographs taken from the Daily Mirror's picture archive which gives an account that can be ...

For Arsenal and Spurs fans, the North London derby matches are the ones most keenly awaited when the fixture lists are published each July. Such is the intense rivalry between the two North London clubs, the pre-match build up is a mixture of trepidation and anticipation in perhaps equal measures de...

It's 1639, King Charles I is on the throne of England and is about to make a grave error of judgment that would lead to his death in 1649 after an armed struggle with both Parliament and the Scots; commonly known as the English Civil War. Far from London, in the North East of England, two rival comm...

From humble beginnings, the rise and fall and rise again of Southampton FC has been a real rollercoaster ride. The early days were a success in the Southern League but two FA Cup Final defeats were heartbreakers. But the Ted Bates era of the 60s were halcyon days for the club and they were promoted ...

Of the greatest rivalries in world football, few stir the emotions more than the Manchester derby - City v United. 'Rivals - Classic Manchester Derby Games' is a comprehensive look at more than a century of bitter battles between the Blues and the Reds and the players who achieved immortality by...

Every golfer longs for the opportunity to play as many great golf holes as possible. Fully updated for 2012 it contains over 800 illustrations from international golf courses across the world, 1001 Golf Holes is a truly comprehensive guide to the world's ultimate golf holes. Fact boxes provide insta...

Completely repackaged, revised, updated and expanded edition of this hugely popular book Packed with facts, stats, lists and quirky anecdotes from the rich history of one of England's biggest and most famous football clubs, this much-loved book is the perfect Christmas gift for Liverpool fans of all...

A new addition to the much-loved football miscellany range, The Man City Miscellany is packed full of facts, stats, lists, quotes and quirky stories from the rich history of one of Britain's biggest and most famous clubs. Beautifully printed on imitation cloth.

Completely repackaged, revised, updated and expanded edition of this hugely popular book. Packed with facts, stats, lists and quirky anecdotes from the rich history of one of England's biggest and most successful football clubs, this much-loved book is the perfect Christmas gift for Arsenal fans of ...

Completely repackaged, revised, updated and expanded edition of this hugely popular book. Packed with facts, stats, lists and quirky anecdotes from the rich history of one of England's biggest and most famous football clubs, this much-loved book is the perfect Christmas gift for Newcastle United fan...

Completely repackaged, revised, updated and expanded edition of this hugely popular book. Packed with facts, stats, lists and quirky anecdotes from the rich history of one of England's biggest and most famous football clubs, this much-loved book is the perfect Christmas gift for Aston Villa fans of ...

Completely repackaged, revised, updated and expanded edition of this hugely popular book. Packed with facts, stats, lists and quirky anecdotes from the rich history of one of England's biggest and most famous clubs, this much-loved book is the perfect Christmas gift for Everton fans of all ages. Bea...

Completely repackaged, revised, updated and expanded edition of this hugely popular book. Packed with facts, stats, lists and quirky anecdotes from the rich history of one of England's biggest and most famous football clubs, this much-loved book is the perfect Christmas gift for Chelsea fans of all ...

Completely repackaged, revised, updated and expanded edition of this hugely popular book. Packed with facts, stats, lists and quirky anecdotes from the rich history of England's biggest and most famous football club, this much-loved book is the perfect Christmas gift for Manchester United fans of al...

Completely repackaged, revised, updated and expanded edition of this hugely popular book. Packed with facts, stats, lists and quirky anecdotes from the rich history of one of England's biggest and most glamorous football clubs, this much-loved book is the perfect Christmas gift for Spurs fans of all...

In "The Classic Mantle," acclaimed sportswriter Buzz Bissinger tells the story of Mickey Mantle's unforgettable career. Mantle has long been considered one of baseball's most memorable figures--playing his entire 18-year baseball career for the New York Yankees (1951-68), winning 3 American League M...

The London 2012 Olympic Games will be the biggest sporting event ever to be staged in Great Britain. The Greatest Show on Earth relives every important moment from every day of the London 2012 Olympic Games, from the Opening Ceremony on Friday 27 July to the Closing Ceremony on Sunday 12 August, rec...

Love them or hate them, there's no such thing as a football fan who doesn't have an opinion on the Dallas Cowboys. From Dandy Don Meredith, Roger Staubach and America's Team to the dynasty of the mid-nineties that won three Super Bowls and the glitzy soap opera team of today, the Cowboys have been d...

The Ryder Cup is one of the world's most prestigious sporting contests. Fiercely fought every two years, it uniquely pits teams from two golfing giants - Europe and the USA - against each other in a sport that is more usually associated with individual play. But this is no exhibition match - nothing...

This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical perspective. Using the recent body of literature on diplomacy it explores the evolution of diplomatic discourse around a number of themes, in particular th...

This book examines the environmental credentials of Olympic Host cities and the opportunities afforded by hosting the Games towards the ecological modernization of the host nation by using perspectives offered by environmental sociology. It also sets out projections for the environmental legacy of L...

Most of what has been written in relation to the modern Olympic movement has focused on the Games or more recently on the failings (both in terms of ethics and more practically of governance) of those operating within the Olympic movement. Yet the Olympic movement was intended by Pierre de Coubertin...

This magnificent commemorative anthology features 25 firsthand accounts from the UK's finest journalists. It draws upon all aspects of the London 2012 experience, including the renovation of the Olympic Park, the nationwide Torch Relay, inspiring performances by individuals and teams, the innovative...

Richer Than God is an authoritative, provocative, investigative account of Manchester City's history, culminating in its transformation as Sheikh Mansour seeks to spend the formerly miserable Manchester club into the European elite. When Conn asked an Abu Dhabi representative whether their economy h...

Hampshire cricket has a rich heritage stretching from the rural game in the Hambledon epoch to the razzamatazz of Twenty20 cricket under the floodlights at the Rose Bowl. Hampshire Cricket On This Day captures all the key events in those 260 years. It celebrates, in diary form, Hampshire's Champions...

When William Clarke married Mary Chapman, landlady of the Trent Bridge Inn, and decided to convert their meadow into the Trent Bridge cricket ground, he could have had little idea of what he was creating. Over 170 years later, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club can proudly reflect on a rich history...