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For five incredible years from 1976 to 1980, Bjorn Borg ruled the
men's singles at Wimbledon by carrying off consecutive titles. It
was a phenomenal feat, all the more so because it was achieved on
the lawns of the All England Club when the young Swede was
essentially a clay-court specialist. No player in tennis's modern
era had ever pulled it off and only one, Roger Federer, has
subsequently matched it. Featuring vivid accounts of some of his
most memorable matches, The Golden Boy of Centre Court tells the
story of Borg's entire Wimbledon odyssey - from his first
appearance in 1972 (when he won the Junior title) to his last in
1981. It's a journey that saw him evolve from a teeny-bopper
heart-throb into a hero almost unanimously loved by the British
tennis-watching public, and one of the greatest champions in the
tournament's long history.
Ron Saunders is the one manager in over a century to guide Aston
Villa to English football's summit. The Odd Man Out is an
exhaustive account of how he did so. How he took the Midlanders to
promotion from the old Division Two in his first season. How he
created and dismantled arguably the most exciting Villa side of
modern times - one that inflicted Liverpool's heaviest defeat of
the entire 1970s. How he achieved two League Cup triumphs in three
years, including a three-game final with Everton that will remain
the longest in history. How he battled with 'Deadly' Doug Ellis -
and won! Then, how he fell out with and ultimately sold fans'
favourite Andy Gray and replaced him with a journeyman striker in
Peter Withe, before steering the club to its first league title in
71 years. It also explores the mystery of his sudden resignation
with Villa on the brink of European Cup glory, joining their
bitterest rivals only nine days later. Saunders's tough-guy
reputation has overshadowed his achievements. The Odd Man Out casts
a whole lot more light upon them.
From late September 1973 until the winter of 1974, British
football's most controversial figure penned a regular column in TV
Times, the weekly television listings magazine. Wide-ranging,
entertaining and remarkably prescient, 'Clough Sounds Off' dates
back to a tumultuous time in his managerial career - when Old Big
'Ead went from Derby to the football wilderness via Brighton and
Leeds. The columns covered a surprising range of subjects, not only
reflecting the game as Brian Clough viewed it at the time but also
signposting the direction in which he saw it heading. Sharp and
funny, yet always delivered with the brutal honesty for which he
was renowned, they highlight exactly what made Clough's voice so
compelling. Me and My Big Mouth reproduces many of these opinion
pieces for the first time since their original publication,
together with the background stories against which they were
written. It is a fresh and welcome addition to the library of
Clough literature, offering a unique insight into the mind of a
most remarkable manager.
A collection of noted comic poet Graham Denton's hilarious poems
for children. With poems on topics from sport to family to TV to
aliens, and a lot of silliness thrown in, this is guaranteed to
keep kids chuckling. A brilliant book to get young readers enjoying
poetry, and a great resource for teachers looking for poems that
kids will love to learn by heart.
Following the same successful formula of The Secret Life of Pants
and Let's Recycle Grandad, My Cat is in Love with the Goldfish is a
compilation of the loopiest love poems ever brought together in one
collection. This is a truly original and engaging book of poems
that kids will find impossible to resist. Forget the 'Owl and the
Pussycat', here we've got the skunk and the porcupine, the octopus
and the rhinoceros, a whale that falls head over tail for a
submarine, and much more besides. With tongue twisters, limericks,
epitaphs, haiku, love songs, and wonderfully witty wordplay
throughout, My Cat is in Love with the Goldfish is a refreshing new
take on one of poetry's perennial themes.
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