The Toon's Greatest 100 Players...EVER!

The Toon's Greatest 100 Players...EVER!
Author: Kev Fletcher
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 132629685X

This book is a collection of the 100 Greatest Newcastle United players of all time, as voted for by NewcastleUtd-Mad.co.uk readers and a panel of journalists who contribute to the website. The players are in an order of five-per-chapter, counting down from 100 to Newcastle United's greatest ever player (as viewed by the author), but the whole point of the book is for YOU (the reader) to decide who goes where. The list is not, by any means, definitive. As with all books of this nature, whether it be ""Greatest Albums""; ""Best Movies Of All Time""; or ""Top 100 Pin-Ups Of The Year"" ... no two people have exactly the same opinion. There will be controversy over who is on the list, and chances are, more controversy over who is not. Here are the best of the best. I have painted the picture with each player's profile. Where they end up in the league of NUFC's Greatest is up to you. Because YOU have the final word.

The Unbelievables

The Unbelievables
Author: David Bevan
Publisher: deCoubertin Books
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2016-07-14
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1909245445

At the beginning of April 2015, newly-promoted Leicester City were seven points adrift at the foot of the Premier League. What happened next was truly extraordinary. Not only did Leicester pull off one of the great escapes to survive in the top flight but they continued their form into the following season. The manager who orchestrated Leicester’s promotion and survival, Nigel Pearson, had left the club by then, replaced by the former Chelsea, Juventus and Roma manager Claudio Ranieri. The press gave “the Tinkerman” no hope of staying the course and the bookies installed Leicester as one of the favourites to be relegated. They were priced at 5,000/1 to win the Premier League. With four games remaining, they stand on the edge of history. The season would make stars of Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez. In November, Vardy broke Ruud van Nistelrooy’s record by scoring in eleven consecutive Premier League games. Mahrez’s goals and assists, including magnificent solo goals against ChelseaandManchester City, made him favourite to win the PFA Footballer of the Year award. If Arsenal’s unbeaten season in 2003/04 saw their team dubbed the Invincibles, then Leicester’s exploits in 2015/16 have made them The Unbelievables. This is the story of their season as seen through the eyes of the supporters who have followed them up and down the country with an increasing sense of wonder.

Fictional Representations of English Football and Fan Cultures

Fictional Representations of English Football and Fan Cultures
Author: Cyprian Piskurek
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 3319767623

This book explores how recent football fiction has negotiated the decisive political developments in English football after the 1989/90 publication of the 'Taylor Report'. A direct response to the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster and growing concerns of hooliganism, the 'Taylor Report' suggested a number of measures for stricter regulation of fan crowds. In consequence, stadiums in the top divisions were turned into all-seated venues and were put under CCTV surveillance. The implementation of these measures reduced violent incidents drastically, but it also led to an unparalleled increase in ticket prices, which in turn significantly altered the demographics of the crowd. This development, which also enabled football's entry into other mainstream cultural forms, changed the game decisively. Piskurek traces patterns across prose and film to detect how these fictions have responded to the changed circumstances of post-Taylor football. Lending a cultural lens to these political changes, this book is pioneering in its analysis of football fiction as a whole, offering a fresh perspective to a range of scholars and students interested in cultural studies, sociology, leisure and politics.

The World Needs Love

The World Needs Love
Author: ,Hillsman
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1642984078

The World Needs Love is a unique book that entails inspirational quotes of motivation, and humor and social commentary motivational quotes and special topics on women consists of public figures, such as Oprah Winfrey, the sporting fraternity, among those are Usain Bolt, ShelleyaEUR"Ann Frasier Pryce, Veronica Campbell Brown, and Asafa Powell. In the musical fraternity, among those are Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, and Frankie Paul. This book basically entails topics of inspiration, motivation, and people who have made great contributions to the world stage. Hillsman's classical and intriguing voice flows immaculately on riddims that makes him the real deal. He masters fluently in entertaining. The song written about Oprah Winfrey is particularly special. Readers can now enjoy listening to 10 of these songs on iTunes.

Special Ones

Special Ones
Author: John King
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2013-03-20
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1783010940

Chelsea Football Club all-time Dream Team selected by the fans along with terrace memories over the decades. From Harris to Terry, Osgood to Zola all saluted and remembered by the boys and girls who stood in the Shed, who were there when Chelsea were ****. The Special Ones was voted in the top 5 Chelsea books ever in the club official magazine.

Mix Tape

Mix Tape
Author: Jane Sanderson
Publisher: Bantam Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2020-01-23
Genre: Dating (Social customs)
ISBN: 9781787631922

'A lovely novel, delicately drawn, with characters that really linger in the mind . . . I got really swept up in it.' Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us You never forget the one that got away. Daniel was the first boy to make Alison a mix tape. But that was years ago and Ali hasn't thought about him in a very long time. Even if she had, she might not have called him 'the one that got away'; after all, she'd been the one to run. Then Dan's name pops up on her phone, with a link to a song from their shared past. For two blissful minutes, Alison is no longer an adult in Adelaide with temperamental daughters; she is sixteen in Sheffield, dancing in her skin-tight jeans. She cannot help but respond in kind. And so begins a new mix tape. Ali and Dan exchange songs - some new, some old - across oceans and time zones, across a lifetime of different experiences, until one of them breaks the rules and sends a message that will change everything... __________ PRAISE FOR MIX TAPE: 'Gorgeous novel about first love . . . guaranteed to make you think of your first love - and perhaps what might have been' Nina Pottell, Prima 'This grown-up love story is gorgeously written and romantic without being sentimental' Good Housekeeping 'Deftly written romantic novel' Red 'Touching, peppily nostalgic love story' Sainsbury's Magazine 'Funny, moving, relatable' Heat 'Fantastic, moving, beautiful novel' Daily Mail 'This tender tale of second chances...is a nostalgic delight' Sunday Mirror 'A brilliantly nostalgic story, with a great sound track' Best Magazine