Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid: A Teenage Obsession with TV Sport by Nige TassellRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 1.6 MBOverview: Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid chronicles the author’s decade-long obsession with televised sport during his teenage years in the 1980s. Charting similar waters to Nick Hornby’s classic Fever Pitch, but with the hopeless devotion […]
The Hard Yards: A Season in the Championship, England’s Toughest League by Nige TassellRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3.5 MBOverview: ‘Gus Poyet declared it to be the toughest league in England. Neil Warnock went further, believing it to be the tightest division in Europe. Norwich boss Daniel Farke went further still: “The Championship, without any doubt, is […]
Boot Sale: Inside the Strange and Secret World of Football’s Transfer Window by Nige TassellRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.4 MBOverview: For football fans who hungrily feed on gossip and rumour, Christmas comes twice a year – once in August and again in January. These are the months when the transfer window dominates thoughts, when the prospect […]
The Bottom Corner: A Season with the Dreamers of Non-League Football by Nige TassellRequirements: .ePUB reader, 317 KBOverview: Everyone loves an FA Cup upset: a smug Premier League team being knocked out by plucky underdogs. In these days of oligarch owners, superstar managers and players on sky-high wages, the tide is turning against the big […]
Three Weeks, Eight Seconds: The Epic Tour de France of 1989 by Nige Tassell Requirements: ePUB Reader, 9.8MB | RetailOverview: Veteran TV commentator Phil Liggett is right. The 1989 Tour de France is surely the greatest ever, a race that saw Greg LeMond overturn a 50-second deficit to Laurent Fignon on the final stage on […]