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  • Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?

    The Story of English Football's Forgotten Tribe

    Ever since the children of penniless immigrants caught the train from Whitechapel to White Hart Lane--to be greeted with the refrain: 'Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?'--this forgotten tribe have helped to shape the Beautiful Game.In telling the fascinating lives of these largely unsung trailblazers, Clavane uncovers a hidden history of Jewish involvement in English football. From Louis Bookman, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?

    The Story of English Football's Forgotten Tribe

    Jews don't do football. Or, at least, they don't play it. This, at any rate, is the myth. Apart from the relatively recent appearance of high-profile foreign owners like Roman Abramovich, Randy Lerner and the Glazers, the Jewish impact on the game has appeared to be on the light side.Anthony Clavane uncovers a secret history of Jewish involvement in English football. Featuring interviews with fans ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future

    The story of a young boy who escaped Hitler and the Holocaust-and lived happily ever after.Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of Günter Stern who, at fourteen, when Adolf Hitler threatened his family, education, and future, resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July 1939, Günter boarded a bus to the border of Luxembourg, illegally ... Read more

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  • Manchester United: The Biography

    The complete story of the world's greatest football club

    by Jim White ...
    75 MILLION FANS.AN ANNUAL INCOME OF MORE THAN £500 MILLION.AND A STORY THAT HAS NEVER FULLY BEEN TOLD - UNTIL NOW.'A wonderfully entertaining history' Sunday Telegraph'When historians 1,000 years from now try to fathom the cult of Manchester United Football Club, White will be a good place to start' Financial Times<st... ... Read more

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  • The Lost Babes

    Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich

    by Jeff Connor ...
    A moving story of how a legendary football team was lost to tragedy – and how this disaster irrevocably altered the lives of the survivors and the bereaved families, and ultimately brought shame on the biggest football club in the world.The Manchester United team Matt Busby had built in the fifties from the club's successful youth policy seemed destined to dominate football for many years. Such ... Read more

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  • The Perfect Distance

    Ovett and Coe: The Record Breaking Rivalry

    by Pat Butcher ...
    The definitive, fully authorised story of the record-breaking rivalry between London Olympics organiser Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett.Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe presided over the golden era of British athletics. Between them they won three Olympic gold medals, two silvers, one bronze and broke a total of twelve middle-distance records. They were part of the landscape of the late seventies and ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Olympics

    The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games

    The Berlin Olympic Games, more than 70 years on, remain the most controversial ever held. This book creates a vivid account of the disputes, the personalities, and the events which made these Games so memorable. Ironically, the choice of Germany as the host nation for the 1936 Olympics was intended to signal its return to the world community after defeat in World War I. In actuality, Hitler ... Read more

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  • We Are Celtic Supporters

    In We Are Celtic Supporters Richard Purden examines what created the culture, ideas and beliefs around Celtic football club. In new and exclusive interviews with supporters, he explores the Celtic way of life and the rich traditions that give context to much of the support while deconstructing some myths along the way. As a travelling supporter he visits a variety of fans in locations such as New ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Trautmann: The Biography

    by Alan Rowlands ...
    In April 1945, a group of bedraggled, weary German prisoners of war landed at Tilbury after being captured during the last days of the war. They were dispersed to prison camps throughout England and one of their number, a confused 22-year-old veteran of some of the harshest conditions and hardest battles experienced by the German forces, found himself in south-east Lancashire. His name was ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Manager

    The absurd ascent of the most important man in football

    by Barney Ronay ...
    THE ABSURD ASCENT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN FOOTBALL. THE MANAGER.'Rich in detail and colour . . . a great read' ObserverThis book traces the remarkable journey of the football gaffer, from his humble beginnings as club secretary, to his modern incarnation - the man we all recognise, venting his spleen at the ref, or having a huff at a post-match press conference.THE MANAGER takes the reader ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Keeping Up With the Germans

    A History of Anglo-German Encounters

    In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann's parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London.Inspired by his own experience of both countries, Philip Oltermann looks at eight historical encounters between English and German people from the last two hundred years: Helmut Kohl tries ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Sit Down and Cheer

    A History of Sport on TV

    by Martin Kelner ...
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    Television and sport is the ultimate marriage of convenience. The two circled each other warily for a while - sport anxious the sofa-bound might spurn the live product, TV reluctant in a limited channel world to hand over too much screen time to flannelled fools and muddied oafs.But they got together, and stayed together, for the sake of the money, and now you cannot imagine one without the other. ... Read more

    $9.69 USD