Night Games - Sex, Power and a Journey into the Dark Heart of Sport by Anna Krien
$13.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
*Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014*'The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface. By morning, the head of the sexual crimes squad confirmed to jou ...Show more
The Winter Game; The Complete History Of Australian Football by Robert Pascoe
$13.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
Balance of Power by Stephen Fleming
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Category: Sports & Athletics
Stephen Fleming has come a long way since he was embroiled in the marijuana scandal which rocked New Zealand cricket back in the mid-90s. Maturity as both a player and as skipper has brought rich rewards for New Zealand's longest-serving, and most successful, test match captain. A stint with Middlesex i ...Show more
Broken Dreams - Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football by Tom Bower
$13.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
Greedy, vain and ambitious personalities dominate English football. From the author of devastating exposes of Mohamed Fayed, Richard Branson and, most recently, Geoffrey Robinson, Broken Dreams is a superbly incisive account of how self-interested individuals, adopting questionable and predatory busines ...Show more
Appeal of the Championship - Sussex in the Summer of 1981 by John Barclay; Susanna Kendall (Illustrator)
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Category: Sports & Athletics
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
$13.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics | Reading Level: very good
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in Baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-bedget Oakland Athletic's visionary general manager Billy Beane, and a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. The ...Show more
Next Man Up - A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL by John Feinstein
$13.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
An up-close look inside an NFL powerhouse, from the only writer in America whom players and coaches would trust with their secrets. America's favorite sportswriter lifts the shroud of secrecy that envelops the NFL to give us the most intimate look we have ever had into the workings of a professional fo ...Show more
Forever Young: The Story of Adrian Doherty, Football's Lost Genius by Oliver Kay
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Category: Sports & Athletics
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This football book is about something even more important than the "beautiful game"; it is a story of the human spirit.' - Mick Hume, The Times Adrian Doherty was not a typical footballer. For one thing, he was blessed with extraordinary tal ...Show more
Red or Dead by David Peace
$13.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
In 1959, Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division. Liverpool Football Club had never won the FA Cup. Fifteen seasons later, Liverpool Football Club had won three League titles, two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup. Liverpool Football Club had become the most consistently successful team in England. A ...Show more
Game of Shadows by Mark Fainaru-Wada
$13.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
The blockbuster "New York Times" bestseller that caused a media firestorm and stayed in the headlines for weeks at last arrives in paperbackwith a new afterword about the Barry Bonds perjury investigation. This is the complete inside story of the BALCO steroids scandal from the award-winning reporters w ...Show more
The Beautiful Game? Searching for the soul of football (revised ed, 2005) by David Conn
$13.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
Once, football proudly claimed to stand for passion, community, honour, even beauty. Today, football is about money. Its richest club, Manchester United, earned -175 million last year; yet since 1992 36 of the Football League's 72 clubs have been insolvent. The game is in danger of losing its lifeblood ...Show more