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Football management is like being a potato—you're never too far from the sack and everyone is constantly chipping away at you. It's not for the faint-hearted and unless you've got skin as thick as rhino and a wicked sense of humour, you've no chance of surviving. Ian Holloway—aka 'Ollie'—has all the above and more besides. He's been there, seen it and done it in his 40 years as player and manager. In the joyful How to Be a Football Manager, Holloway weaves a fantastically rich tapestry of hilarious anecdotes to reveal what being the boss is really like.

A must-listen for football fanatics around the world: meet the man who helmed Manchester United for 27 years and led them to 49 trophies. A tour de force in the world of football, this is a must-listen book for football fans everywhere, addressing personal feuds, triumphs and highlights of his...

Brought to you by Penguin. At the age of 16, a boy amongst men, Andy Farrell made his first-team debut for Wigan Warriors – and became a father for the first time. At 18, he won his first senior international cap. At 21, he won his first Man of Steel Award for the Super League player of the...

As a boy, Fred fell in love with the game of cricket, it gave him his route through life; out on the pitch he felt at home. Through his eyes we see: the very first time he picks up a bat, getting out first ball; the walk on to the pitch to face the Aussies in 2005; face-downs with rivals; run-ins with the media; the doctors telling him he can't continue to play. After retiring, Fred thought he'd left the game behind, relaunching himself in the world of entertainment, but following the car crash that turned his life upside down, it was cricket to which he returned.

Have you experienced the change in perspective that comes from viewing skill as a functional, adaptive relationship between the athlete and their environment? Discovered the value of shifting a coach’s role from giving solutions to giving problems? Does the Ecological Approach to skill and coaching resonate with your personal beliefs and align with the experiential knowledge you have gained through your coaching? Have you seen some initial success from using methods such as the Constraints Led Approach (CLA) and/or Differential Learning? Want to take it further?

Wicked Smart Golf is NOT just a mental game book. This audiobook delivers proven strategies to improve your game with actionable advice on course management, short game, and effective practice habits. Written by a +2 handicap & mental golf coach, this book introduces a five-pillar system designed to help you play smarter and shoot lower scores.

An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League tactics, published to coincide with 25 years of the competition. Back in 1992, English football was stuck in the dark ages, emerging from a five-year ban from European competition. The game was...

Transform Your Body. Elevate Your Game. Play Better Golf—For Life. If you want to hit it farther, avoid injury, gain stamina, and play your best golf for decades—not just next season—The Wicked Smart Golf Fitness Formula is your blueprint. Written by +2 handicap golfer, performance coach, and 3X author Michael Leonard, this book delivers a simple, sustainable system for golf fitness. No gimmicks. No complicated science. Just a proven formula built from real training, conversations with top experts, and results on the course.

Lower your scores, increase enjoyment. Are you struggling to take your golf game to the next level? Learn the philosophy that has helped thousands of players worldwide lower their scores and improve their relationship with golf. Swing tips come and go, but foundational golf skills last forever.

Pat Nevin never wanted to be a professional footballer. His future was clear, he'd become a teacher like his brothers. There was only one problem with this - Pat was far too good to avoid attention. Raised in Glasgow's East End, Pat loved the game, playing for hours and obsessively following Celtic. But as he grew up, he also loved Joy Division, wearing his Indie 'gloom boom' coat and going on marches - hardly typical footballer behaviour!

Troy Deeney is best known as Watford FC's captain and a thorn in Arsenal's side. But behind the successful and gritty football persona is a remarkable story of resilience. In this brutally honest and inspirational memoir, Troy shares what it was like to grow up on Europe's largest council estate, where his mum worked three jobs and his father, a notorious drug dealer, was frequently in and out of prison.

'BRILLIANT, REVEALS DELIGHTFUL DETAILS ABOUT EMERY' The Times 'A BACKSTAGE PASS TO THE MAKING OF A MODERN FOOTBALL IDENTITY' Midlands Gazette Featuring exclusive interviews with Unai Emery, Monchi, Morgan Rogers and more, this is the behind-the-scenes account of Unai Emery's Aston Villa...

How connection and courage teach us to win - an NRL leadership story, from the history-making coach who pulled off the impossible to inspire, mentor and lead a grassroots club to the pinnacle of performance and become the undisputed champions of the league It's described as the greatest...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton Park and became ‘Mr West Ham’: a one-club man who lived the dream. A modern footballing legend, Mark Noble is the embodiment of what it means to be a Hammer, pouring his heart and...

If you've always wanted to master Pickleball but feel intimidated by the rules and worried about looking foolish on the court, then keep reading... Are you sick and tired of watching others have fun on the pickleball courts while you sit on the sidelines? Have you tried jumping into games but felt lost with the scoring system and confusing rules? Do you finally want to say goodbye to pickleball anxiety and discover a step-by-step system that actually works for complete beginners? If so, then this book is for you.

Most golfers practise more, think harder, and analyse everything — yet still feel stuck, inconsistent, or overwhelmed. Meanwhile, someone with no warm-up and no swing thoughts plays out of their skin. Why? This audiobook reveals that story — and the breakthrough behind it. Cameron discovered it watching a golfer named Ross arrive late, tired, and unprepared… yet play with freedom, confidence, and flow. His secret was simple: he stopped overthinking and simply played.

Between 2012 and 2023, Ian Graham worked as Liverpool FC's Director of Research. His tenure coincided with the club’s greatest period of success since the 1980s, including winning the Premier League in 2020 – Liverpool’s first league title after an agonising 29 years. Here for the first time, Graham reveals the fascinating data that informed some of the club’s most pivotal moments of the past decade, from the appointment of Jurgen Klopp as manager in 2015 to the signing of Mohamed Salah in 2017.

Martí Perarnau was given total access to Bayern Munich during season 2013-14. This audiobook represents the first time in the modern era that a writer has got this close to one of the elite teams of world football. At the invitation of Pep Guardiola, he shadowed the Catalan, his staff and his superstar players during training and on matchdays. Bayern smashed domestic records on their way to the double, but were humiliated by Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final.

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022 Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and...

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