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The Crew
(Paperback)
Dougie Brimson
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The UK's most downloaded sports title of 2012! The prequel to the
Movie Top Dog starring Leo Gregory - Directed by Martin Kemp
APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEPTIVE - as As Paul Jarvis of the National
Soccer Intelligence Unit is only too well aware. He knows that
Billy Evans is no ordinary Cockney lad made good. He's also a thug,
a villain and a cop killer. Jarvis just hasn't been able to prove
it...Yet. So when Jarvis discovers that Evans is putting together a
hooligan 'Super Crew' to follow the England national soccer team to
Italy, he feels sure he can finally put Evans behind bars - if only
someone can infiltrate the group and get him the proof he needs.
But nothing is ever that simple. The Crew believe Evans is just out
for a full-on riot. Jarvis thinks he's trafficking drugs. But Billy
Evans is always one step ahead. He has another plan. And it will be
catastrophic for everyone concerned. EXCEPT HIM.
In 1957, when very few Mexican-Americans were familiar with the
game of golf, and even less actually played it, a group of young
caddies which had been recruited to form the San Felipe High School
Golf Team by two men who loved the game, but who had limited access
to it, competed against all-white schools for the Texas State High
School Golf Championship. Despite having outdated and inferior
equipment, no professional lessons or instructions, four young
golfers with self-taught swings from the border city of Del Rio,
captured the State title. Th ree of them took the gold, silver and
bronze medals for best individual players. Th is book tells their
story from their introduction to the game as caddies to eventually
becoming champions.
Murrayfield, the Calcutta Cup, March 1990. England vs. Scotland -
winner-takes-all for the Five Nations Grand Slam, the biggest prize
in northern hemisphere rugby. Will Carling's England are the very
embodiment of Margaret Thatcher's Britain - snarling, brutish and
all-conquering. Scotland are the underdogs - second-class citizens
from a land that's become the testing ground for the most unpopular
tax in living memory: Thatcher's Poll Tax. In Edinburgh,
nationalism is rising high - what happens in the stadium will
resound far beyond the pitch. The Grudge brilliantly recaptures a
day that has gone down in history when a rugby match became more
than a game. This is the real story of an extraordinary conflict,
told with astounding insight and unprecedented access to key
players, coaches and supporters on both sides (Will Carling, Ian
McGeechan, Brian Moore and the rest). Tom English has produced a
gripping account of a titanic struggle that thrusts the reader
right into the heart of the action. Game on. Fully revised and
updated, this special hardback edition is published to mark the
thirtieth anniversary of Scotland's most storied rugby season.
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