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A Lifetime's Obsession
Lawrie McMenemy is a giant of English football. This is the story of his remarkable life, including transforming Southampton into FA Cup winners. Sunderland, Graham Taylor's England and Northern Ireland followed. His charismatic personality convinced footballing greats to sign - including Kevin Keegan in a sensational transfer. An engrossing story.
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Regrets of a Football Maverick
Terry Curran's confessional is a no holds barred tale of football guaranteed to put a smile on the faces of fans who remember the game's golden age of Cloughie, Tommy Docherty, Lawrie McMenemy, Jack Charlton and Howard Kendall.
Southampton Match of My Life
20 Southampton legends come together to tell the stories behind their favorite ever games for the club From Alan Shearer's record-breaking debut hat-trick as a 17-year-old to Matt Le Tissier's last ever goal at the Dell which reduced grown men to tears, here are personal stories never before told. FA Cup winner Peter Rodrigues recalls the day Saints shocked the sporting world by beating Manchester United in the 1976 final while Egil Ostenstad remembers the hat-trick that never was against Alex Ferguson's Red Devils. Southampton greats Mick Channon, Dean Hammond, and ex-beetroot-packing goal machine Rickie Lambert also turn in characteristic star performances, winding back the clock to relive treasured memories of the Match of Their Lives for the Saints.
Alan Ball: The Man in White Boots
It is a special footballer who wins the World Cup as a 21-year-old and ends a two-decade career as one of the most revered players in the history of four clubs. Former England captain Alan Ball was such a man: prodigy at Blackpool, youngest hero of 1966, Championship winner at Everton, British-record signing for the second time at Arsenal and veteran schemer for Southampton - not to mention footwear trend-setter. And all after being told he was too small to succeed in the game. Yet his years as a flat-cap wearing manager consisted mostly of relegation and promotion battles, some successful and some not, and plenty of frustration as he fought to produce winners in his own image and emulate th...
My Story
Selected moments from the life of Dennis Kidd, Lecturer, Teacher, Naval Officer, Sportsman …family man.
Be Careful What You Wish For
Ever dreamed of owning your boyhood football club? Be careful what you wish for... Simon Jordan grew up a stone's throw from Crystal Palace Football Club. As a boy he used to break into the Palace ground for a kick-about on the hallowed turf. On leaving school he entered the mobile phone business. By the age of thirty-two, he'd built a company from nothing, sold it for £75 million and bought his childhood club. By the age of forty-two Palace was in administration and Jordan had lost nigh on everything. Be Careful What You Wish For lifts the lid on the owner's story and reveals for the first time how the national game really works. Jordan spares no one, least of all himself, as he takes us i...
Glorious
Even people who don't know football know who 'Gazza' is. The man born as Paul John Gascoigne to a working-class family in the North-East has found headlines on the front pages almost as often as the back pages throughout his life, thanks in great part to his more than colourful lifestyle. But it is for his time as a footballer of the very highest order that Gazza's name will forever live in sporting history. During a career that spanned more than ten different clubs, among them Newcastle United, Tottenham, Lazio and Rangers, and which included countless unforgettable England performances, Gazza established himself as one of the sport's all-time greats: a master of skill, flair and invention like none that his country had produced before nor perhaps ever will again. Told in Gazza's own unique voice and fully illustrated with hundreds of photos from the moments that he feels defined his career,Glorious: My World, Football and Meis a celebration, offering an unrivalled insight into the mind of this greatest of footballers.
