Spin, swing, seam, irregular bounce, using the pace of the ball, Hawkeye - cricket is littered with technical terms and, increasingly, with technology.
Adrian Morley has been a giant figure in rugby league for nearly 20 years and Moz, his long-awaited autobiography, is as hard-hitting as the man himself.
But beyond the elbows and the early baths, the booze, the birds and the brawls, there is a poignant human story, the ultra-competitive dad, the uncontrollable temper and the uncanny ability to make the wrong decision at the wrong time, all of which cost him the chance to play football at the highest level and sent Roy down a path of self-destruction.
Dennis Tueart is one of football's most forthright and eloquent characters, and his long-awaited autobiography is the refreshingly honest story of his days as a flying left-winger with Sunderland, Manchester City, the New York Cosmos and England.
New edition of this bestselling, seminal autobiography of Arsenal FC, fully revised and updated with five new chapters to bring it up to the start of a turbulent 2011/12 season in which the club's place at the top-table of european football will be challenged to the full.
2011 edition of Andy Mitten's acclaimed bestseller, featuring the candid recollections of former United players Bryan Robson, Gordon McQueen, Gary Bailey, Billy Garton, Arthur Albiston, Clayton Blackmore, Alan Brazil, Frank Stapleton, Arnold Muhren and Ron Atkinson.
When Argentinian World Cup winners Ricky Villa and Ossie Ardiles were unveiled as Tottenham Hotspur's new signings in the summer of 1978 it was one of the most sensational transfer coups English football had ever seen.
The paperback edition of the acclaimed bestseller - which received numerous glowing reviews and sold out its 6000 copy hardback run - is fully revised and updated with three brand-new chapters.
In 1974 Zaire's football team were summoned into a room in their West German hotel and told that if they lost to Brazil by more than three goals the following day they would never see their families again.
The St Andrews Old Course Starter's Box was sold in a controversial international auction on 10 September 2001, the day before the infamy of the Twin Towers attack.
True Storey is the compelling autobiography of notorious 1970s football legend Peter Storey, dubbed 'the bastard's bastard', who gained a reputation for ultra-violence on the pitch and had a capacity to find even greater trouble off it - a fact borne out by a string of criminal convictions and several jail sentences.
***FOREWORD BY FABIO CAPELLO***Since their first appearance in the competition in 1950, England's World Cup story has been one of broken dreams, bad luck, shock losses and penalty nightmares, with one shining exception in 1966, when they famously won the Cup after beating Germany 4-2.
"e;Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentleman's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts"e; Henry Blaha.
Guaranteed to make you smile, if not laugh out loud, here is a collection of quotes, quips and gaffes from footballers and football lovers the world over .
Golf for Beginning Players provides solid advice on swing, position and feel that is more sensible that the lions share of gimmickry peddled in contemporary golf literature.
Shane Bond Looking Back is the remarkable story of one of New Zealand's greatest fast bowlers; a bowler who in his heyday was so ruthlessly efficient at his art, that he was feared by cricketers the world over.
*The Million Copy Bestseller*Sir Alex Ferguson's reflects on his remarkable managerial career where he embraced unprecedented European success for Aberdeen and 26 triumphant seasons with Manchester United.
WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'This football book is about something even more important than the "e;beautiful game"e;; it is a story of the human spirit.
First published in 1896, The Game of Golf came out just as the 'fickle game that must be wooed to be won' was gaining widespread popularity across the world.
'Completely brilliant' Ian HislopIt seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe.
'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying the link between football clubs and their supporters': foreign football players have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football.
Once the preserve of the English, now, for nations the world over, summertime means cricket bats to be oiled, rain forecasts analysed and tea in the pavilion.
"e;Bloody obvious isn't it: tell the defenders to route one out to Drogba"e; "e;That's what they've been doing all night and look where it's got them"e;"e;The final ball has just not been weighted enough; in any case, his touch is too heavy"e;"e;GBP120,000 a week and look how little they put themselves about"e;"e;Players today are mercenaries: in my day they lived and died for their local team.
The fiercely honest, fearless, darkly funny autobiography of global tennis star Maria SharapovaIn the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy.
