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Whenever a famous footballer dies, there is an inevitable degree of
public grief, depending on the age of the individual and the
circumstances of his demise. But newspaper obituaries, in the
majority of cases, are not about mourning. They are about the
celebration of the lives of often remarkable characters who have
loomed large in the collective consciousness of their countless
supporters, people who have admired them week by week, season by
season; been touched by them, perhaps outraged by them, maybe even
loved them in that special way which fans reserve for their
sporting heroes.The "Independent" newspaper is renowned for its
detailed and heartfelt biographies of important figures in every
sphere of life. "The Book Of Football Obituaries" deals with the
detailed life and times of over 150 players, managers and
personalities who have died in the last 15 years. Between these
covers rest the likes of George Best, Alan Ball, Sir Stanley
Matthews, Sir Alf Ramsey, Brian Clough, Emlyn Hughes, John Charles
and many more. The list is formidable, the scale of their
achievement truly uplifting, and the essence of these exceptional
men is captured here. This collection, featuring iconic images of
every person included in the book, reveals the depth and breadth of
research and knowledge which goes into each obituary and forms a
collection of stunning remembrances of some of the greatest
personalities to grace the game in recent times.
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On Cricket (Paperback)
James Lawton, Mike Atherton; Edited by Ivan Ponting
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Introduced by Michael Atherton, the former England cricket captain,
this book brings together James Lawton's best writing on cricket
providing a powerful commentary on the world of cricket over the
last decade.
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On Football (Paperback)
James Lawton, Johnny Giles; Read by Ivan Ponting
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This monograph, covers three stages in the growth and development
of the South Vietnamese Army and highlights the role of the U.S.
Army, especially the MACV advisory system.
This monograph, covers three stages in the growth and development
of the South Vietnamese Army and highlights the role of the U.S.
Army, especially the MACV advisory system.
Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year 2015 Sometimes you love a
football team not only for their strengths, the splendour of their
play and the appealing thrust of their character, but also the
haunting possibility that their best hopes may never be fulfilled.
This has rarely been demonstrated so vividly as by the Manchester
City team who briefly, but unforgettably, illuminated the late
sixties. And no one was more caught up in their struggles and their
triumphs than James Lawton, a young sportswriter starting out on a
career that would take him to all the great events of world sport.
Yet still, 50 years after Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison began to
shape the brilliant team, he counts watching their rise to glory as
one of the most exciting times of his professional life. Francis
Lee, Colin Bell, Mike Summerbee - these players loomed large over
the game as they charged at the peaks of English football, and
today evoke a period of the sport's history that seems distant and
unknowable, hard to see except through the rose-tinted gloss of
nostalgia. Lawton goes back to those heroes, interviewing all the
main players and characters who are still alive, and vividly brings
to life the story of that City team which with such wonderful
panache, and freedom, won the first division title, the FA Cup, the
League Cup and the European Cup Winners Cup between 1967 and 1970.
This, though, is not just the story of one team, but a broader one
of how sport can sometimes so perfectly mirror the exaltation and
the despair of the real world, how it carries those who do it, and
sometimes even those who merely see it, to moments that will claim
a permanent place in their hearts.
For three decades at the end of the twentieth century - throughout boxing's most engrossing era - James Lawton was ringside, covering every significant bout, spending time with the likes of Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hitman Hearns, Roberto Duran, Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield and many other great fighters.
Lawton found himself captivated by the sport as he followed it around the world. From a big fight's initial announcement, through the fighters' punishing training regimes, the overblown press conferences and dramatic weigh-ins, up to the bout itself and its savage fall-out - Lawton observed and absorbed it all, grateful for the remarkable access he was afforded. He witnessed Ali screaming in pain for his dressing-room lights to be turned out after a fight; he was there to meet Tyson at the prison gates on his release in 1992; he listened as former champions wept while struggling to find their new place in the world. As part of a small, tight-knit group of sportswriters with the privilege of covering each fight in such intimate detail, Lawton formed lifelong friendships and found himself forever altered by being caught up in the whirlwind of a sport at its most spellbinding.
A Ringside Affair brings that brilliant epoch back to life - and puts it in the perspective it deserves. It salutes the epic quality of boxing's last years of glory, retraces arguably the richest inheritance bequeathed to any sport, and speculates on the possibility that we will never see such fighting again. It is part celebration, part lament, but perhaps most of all it is a personal record of some of the most enthralling and challenging days produced by the world's oldest sport.
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