Chelsea's Cult Heroes
Chelsea's Cult Heroes

Author: Leo Moynihan

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2012-11-06

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1909178276

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Chelsea Cult Heroes recounts the careers of 20 of the club's greatest icons, men who entertained, week in, week out and regularly set fans' pulses racing. Each individual biography analyses each player's career, and examines exactly each player was idolised and how they achieved cult status. Featuring Willy Foulke, George Hilsdon, Hughie Gallacher, Roy Bentley, Eric Parsons, Jimmy Greaves, Bobby Tambling, Ron Harris, Peter Osgood,Charlie Cooke, Alan Hudson, Ray Wilkins, Micky Droy, Joey Jones, Pat Nevin, Kerry Dixon, Dennis Wise, Ruud Gullit, Gianfranco Zola and John Terry.Key features- Part of the popular and successful Cult Heroes series which features a number of football clubs- Features 20 of Chelsea Football Club's most iconic players of all time- Details their careers, their impact on the club and the reasons why they were such cult figures- Includes contemporary and historic images of those legendary figures featured- Written by respected football author Leo Moynihan

The Chelsea FC Miscellany
The Chelsea FC Miscellany

Author: Rick Glanvill

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 075249077X

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Chelsea FC, as someone once observed, has always done what other clubs have done, but not necessary in the same order. A stone's throw from the King's Road, draped with showbiz connections, and not even based in the borough from which it takes its name, Chelsea is an enigma. Run by the entrepreneurial Mears dynasty, Ken 'electric fence' Bates and now the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, the club has enough entertaining quirks and anecdotes to keep you entertained for ages. It is also a club whose history is filled with glorious games, unique facts, bizarre statistics, larger-than-life players and a special brand of supporter. And, as this book proves, far from being the imposters Kipling suggested, triumph and disaster make for a fantastically entertaining read.

Chelsea Cult Heroes
Chelsea Cult Heroes

Author: Leo Moynihan

Publisher: Cult Heroes

Published: 2012-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781908051660

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Cult Heroes looks back at the cult figures in each club's history, the players who--regardless of ability, status, or legend--were loved by the fans. Looking back at a raft of household names who have gone down in folklore, it recalls those players' careers and examines just why they gained cult status.

The League Doesn't Lie
The League Doesn't Lie

Author: BBC Radio 5 Live

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-09-27

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1446417700

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In The League Doesn’t Lie, the 606 team have selected the most debatable topics from the world of football, from best manager to most memorable penalty, and worst haircut ever to the ultimate England team. Learn about the top ten football Tweeters. Jump on your 606 Soapbox about the best ever player. And hear about the show’s angriest calls of all time! With introductions from the 606 team for each topic, plus a foreword by Robbie Savage, The League Doesn’t Lie is the ultimate book of football trivia and opinion for Sunday League players and armchair referees alike.

Making History, Not Reliving It
Making History, Not Reliving It

Author: Mark Worrall

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 0955745985

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£80 million in debt and with financial meltdown a matter of weeks away, in July 2003 Chelsea Football Club were saved from almost certain penury by Roman Abramovich, a reclusive young billionaire that few people outside his native Russia had heard of. Making History, Not Reliving It recounts the first decade of Roman’s rule in London mirrored against a backdrop of an ever-changing, social-media-driven, angst and envy-ridden world where the revolving door of change seems to spin as fast as that of the manager’s at Stamford Bridge. Granular season-by-season detail of exactly how Chelsea amassed three league titles, four FA Cups, two League Cups, a Champions League and a Europa League in ten eventful years is entertainingly supplemented with news and entertainment bulletins and rounded off with enlightening and diverse points of view provided by a broad cross section of supporters unified by their blissful enjoyment of the desperate jealousy of rival fans now only able to relive the history that their own precious club’s once made.

My Name Is Clive
My Name Is Clive

Author: Clive Headley

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2023-02-06

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1664118500

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This is about the life and times of a premier guitarist based on his experiences from the 1970s to the present. It is a historical perspective of London life and the changing face of London—the styles, the fashion, and the trends. It is a firsthand account telling it as it really is. It is a true story that has never been told before.

Over Land and Sea
Over Land and Sea

Author: Mark Worrall

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2004-09-10

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1904744273

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On the final day of the 2002 / 2003 football season Chelsea Football Club recorded a famous 2-1 victory over Liverpool, thereby qualifying to play in the following seasons European Champions League competition. Resigned to losing Gianfranco Zola, who had recently been voted the club's greatest ever player, and with no money available for Chelsea's charismatic coach Claudio Ranieri to strengthen the squad, the prospects for the coming season looked to be self-limiting. That had been the general consensus of Marco, Young Dave, Ugly John, Ossie and the rest of the Chelsea Gate 17 boys as they frittered away the summer months waiting for the new European campaign to begin. Enter Roman Abramovich. The billionaire Russian oligarch purchased the club and financed a spending spree unprecedented in the history of the game. 'Glorious unpredictability,' that's what Marco called it ...that Chelsea factor, you just never knew what was going to happen next. Whatever it was, the Gate 17 boys had no intention of missing any of it ...they'd even planned to make a spiritual pilgrimage to Sardinia to watch their hero Zola. Over Land and Sea re-writes the current trend in depressingly violent football literature.

The Mammoth Football Quiz Book
The Mammoth Football Quiz Book

Author: Nick Holt

Publisher: Robinson

Published: 2016-11-24

Total Pages: 613

ISBN-13: 1472137620

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A truly mammoth football quiz book covering over twenty years of the Premier League and the entire history of the beautiful (and sometimes not so beautiful) game. All the major international tournaments are covered, as well as the full history of the domestic game, both recent and historical - even grandad can show off! Nick Holt has compiled a satisfyingly hefty and wonderfully challenging collection of 3,000 questions, arranged in quizzes of varying difficulty and subject matter covering the games that mattered, the personalities, the controversies, the goals and the glory. SAMPLE QUESTIONS It wasn't until 2007 that a South American player scored a Premier League hat-trick; who scored three in a 5-3 derby win over Wigan Athletic in December that year? There have been some noticeably bad-tempered Merseyside derbies in the Premier League era; which Everton player saw red at Goodison Park in December 2005, and again in October, 2007? Which two uncapped overseas players were the captains of Manchester City and Portsmouth respectively for the 2004-05 season? Germany 1, England 5: Who let in five goals for the only time in his international career? Italia 90: Who was the unlikely scorer of the game's only goal when England beat Egypt 1-0 in a group match of bewildering tedium? Italia 90: Defeat by which country in their opening match cost Scotland a chance of progressing past the group stage for the first time?

Goalless Draws
Goalless Draws

Author: David Squires

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1783351632

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Half-and-half scarves? VARs? England winning penalty shoot-outs? Modern football can be baffling. But if you're contemplating throwing it all in for the simpler pleasures of quantum mechanics, don't despair just yet: help is at hand. In Goalless Draws, David Squires unpicks the modern game with an unmissable selection of his Guardian football cartoons from 2014 to the 2018 World Cup. From the ever-dizzying managerial roundabout to the absurdities of the transfer window, and from the annual tradition of poppygate to the 'stable genius' of José Mourinho, the result is a riotous reminder of all the pitfalls of the modern game, as well as everything that keeps us coming back for more.