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Download or read book Big Jock written by David Leggat and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jock Wallace wasn't just one of Scotland's outstanding football managers - he was a legend. A larger-than-life character, a giant of a man and a real-life hero, Wallace lived an extraordinary life. Though only an average goalkeeper who never made it as a player, he lived the football dream when he went on to manage Rangers twice, winning a whole host of trophies, including two Trebles in three seasons in the mid-seventies. But the road to the top was a tough one for big Jock, including a spell as a jungle fighter with the King's Own Scottish Borderers in war-torn Malaya, and in his fifties he was struck down by Parkinson's disease. In the end, the strain proved too much even for Wallace and he died of a heart attack aged only sixty-two. In this fascinating biography, David Leggat, one of the few journalists who was close to Big Jock, tells his incredible story.
Download or read book The Management written by Michael Grant and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'an outstanding piece of work . . . utterly compelling' - Scotland on Sunday Why has Scotland produced so many of the best football managers in the world? Based on exclusive interviews with the men themselves, their players or close friends and family, Michael Grant and Rob Robertson delve into the very heart of Scottish life, society and football to reveal the huge contribution that managers such as Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Matt Busby, Bill Shankly, Jock Stein, Jim McLean, Kenny Dalglish, Walter Smith and a host of others have made to the world game. This original, brilliantly-realised and critically acclaimed study profiles the character and methods of each of the great Scottish managers, analysing their strengths and weaknesses, and examines their impact on both club and international football. It is a deeply-researched and compelling story which presents new material on many of the greats, particularly Busby and Stein, and highlights the enormous Old Firm contributions of, among others, Willie Maley, Bill Struth and Graeme Souness.
Download or read book Dead Find written by T.F. Muir and published by Constable. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tightly plotted with a real sense of place and characters with heart that will stay with me for some time. Recommended for all lovers of police procedurals' Lisa Ballantyne St. Andrews, Scotland: Renovation works on the famous Old Course golf course uncovers the remains of a body in a shallow grave - two bullet holes in the skull. DNA confirms the victim as Rab Shepherd, the missing brother of Scotland's late crime patriarch, Jock Shepherd. But Rab pulled out of the family business over twenty years ago, and moved to Australia where he allegedly lived an honest and wealthy life. This body confirms otherwise. Why was Rab killed? And who would risk killing him, knowing he was big Jock's brother? DCI Andy Gilchrist and his associate, DS Jessie Janes, are assigned the murder investigation, and soon uncover a trail of executions and torture, treachery and betrayal, and ultimately a gangland secret so powerful it could shake the UK government to its core... PRAISE FOR T.F. MUIR: 'Rebus did it for Edinburgh. Laidlaw did it for Glasgow. Gilchrist might just be the bloke to put St Andrews on the crime fiction map.' Daily Record 'A truly gripping read, with all the makings of a classic series.' Mick Herron 'Gripping and grisly, with plenty of twists and turns that race along with black humour.' Craig Robertson 'DCI Gilchrist gets under your skin. Though, determined, and a bit vulnerable, this character will stay with you long after the last page.' Anna Smith 'Gripping!' Peterborough Telegraph
Download or read book Poems and Lyrics written by John Young and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Big Man on Campus by : U. M. Lassiter
Download or read book Big Man on Campus written by U. M. Lassiter and published by Devine Destinies. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muscle teen titan Alex Johnson is starting his senior year in High School. Alex has spent most of his life seemingly invisible, but since an experimental genetic treatment to save his life, he�s literally Big Man on Campus. His friends think that Alex is large and in charge, so the school bullies won�t be a problem anymore, but the bullies have other ideas. Meanwhile, Alex is just trying to cope with the usual problems‹peer pressure, sports, grades‹and a suddenly rocky relationship with his first real boyfriend. Along the way, Alex reaches out to some of the geekiest freshmen in school-- something no one ever did for him-- and his plan to help them produces some startling results.
Book Synopsis Ballads of Bairnhood by : Robert Ford
Download or read book Ballads of Bairnhood written by Robert Ford and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tommy Gemmell: Lion Heart by : Graham McColl
Download or read book Tommy Gemmell: Lion Heart written by Graham McColl and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tommy Gemmell: Lion Heart he sheds light on his career - from his earliest days of growing up in Lanarkshire, to his award-winning decade at Celtic, and through his work as a player and manager at Dundee and Albion Rovers. Always honest, Tommy Gemmell is not afraid to look back at Celtic's dominance in the 60s and offers his trademark forthright views on Celtic's progress and the game today.
Download or read book The Bystander written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hell-roarin' Forty-niners by : Robert Welles Ritchie
Download or read book The Hell-roarin' Forty-niners written by Robert Welles Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of gold mining in the Sierras and the miners and townspeople, rough groups.
Book Synopsis "YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!" by : Dan Jenkins
Download or read book "YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!" written by Dan Jenkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last quarter century, Dan Jenkins has been fixing his cold-eyed stare and wisecracking style on the real-life Billy Clyde and Kenny Lee Pucketts of the sports world. You Call It Sports, But I Say It’s a Jungle Out There is a collection of his best work from Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Golf Digest, and his nationally syndicated column, and includes a stack of new pieces written especially for this book. Jenkins spares no one in his search for the culprits who have taken the fun out of sports: NFL owners and refs, PGA Tour administrators, basketball players who can’t read, tennis players who can’t speak English (or say anything worth hearing when they do). He also finds things worth celebrating: the electric charge given off by Arnold Palmer at his best, the excitement of a truly great college football game, or a real heavyweight champion, like Joe Louis. Overflowing with good ol’ boys, great one-liners, famous sporting events, and barroom tales, this is the best of Dan Jenkins—which is to say, it’s as good as sportswriting gets anywhere.
Download or read book The Lisbon Lions written by Billy McNeill and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 25, 1967 Celtic Football Club made history by becoming the first British team to win the European Cup. Eleven players, all born within a 30-mile radius of Celtic Park, beat the Italian aristocrats of Inter Milan and took their place forever in the annals of fame. This is the story, four decades after that memorable triumph in the Portuguese capital, of each of the eight surviving Lisbon Lions, their own official take on exactly what happened before, during and after that never-to-be-forgotten encounter that shook the football world.Remarkably, the Lions have never sat down in the intervening 40 years and put their exclusive thoughts together in one book - this is that unique book. Billy McNeill, Jim Craig, Tommy Gemmell, John Clark, Willie Wallace, Stevie Chalmers, Bertie Auld and Bobby Lennox give their forthright views on the march towards Lisbon and a place in football history.Who was the Lisbon Lion who thought the European Cup Final was the easiest game of the season? Who now admits he made life difficult for Jock Stein? Who was the player who was conned by the Celtic manager? Which Lion had a running battle with his team-mates throughout the European Cup Final?And who thought Celtic had won the trophy before the kick-off? All is revealed!"The Lions" also give fascinating and thought-provoking insights to manager supreme Jock Stein, goalkeeper extraordinary Ronnie Simpson, midfield master Bobby Murdoch and the incomparable Jimmy Johnstone.Candid, frank and funny, "The Lisbon Lions: The Real Inside Story" reveals the secrets of Lisbon 1967, unlocked by the men who knew the inside track - the players themselves.
Book Synopsis Tiffany Aching Complete 5-Book Collection by : Terry Pratchett
Download or read book Tiffany Aching Complete 5-Book Collection written by Terry Pratchett and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes all five Tiffany Aching novels in Terry Pratchett's beloved and bestselling Discworld series, including the final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown. The Wee Free Men: Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle—aka the Wee Free Men. A Hat Full of Sky: Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic—not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this! Indeed, there is. . . . Wintersmith: When the Spirit of Winter takes a fancy to Tiffany Aching, he wants her to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever. It will take the young witch's skill and cunning, as well as help from the legendary Granny Weatherwax and the irrepressible Wee Free Men, to survive until Spring. I Shall Wear Midnight: As the witch of the Chalk, Tiffany Aching performs the distinctly unglamorous work of caring for the needy. But someone—or something—is inciting fear, generating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Tiffany must find the source of unrest and defeat the evil at its root, for if she falls, the whole Chalk falls with her. . . . The Shepherd's Crown: Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad. There will be a reckoning. . . .
Book Synopsis Poems and Lyrics: chiefly in the Scottish dialect by : John YOUNG (of Port Dundas, Glasgow.)
Download or read book Poems and Lyrics: chiefly in the Scottish dialect written by John YOUNG (of Port Dundas, Glasgow.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 86 F-250 written by Blake Burton and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book When an alien crash lands on Earth with no memory of who he is or what happened to him, he takes the form of a 1986 Ford F-250 and travels to a nearby town, hoping to discover something about his past life. Connor Sammamish is an outcast. Overshadowed by his famous racecar driver mother, he feels misunderstood and unseen, finding solace in his room alone while his mother throws extravagant parties for the millionaires in town. On a fateful night, Connor finds himself cornered by a group of high school bullies with no hope for escape... that is, until a nearby ’86 Ford F-250 transforms into a superpowered robot, sending the bullies running away in fear. After protecting his new friend, the alien enlists Connor’s help in figuring out the truth of his origin, all while evading the mysterious forces who hunt the pair down. About the Author A native of Washington, Blake Burton is currently studying for his Bachelor of Arts in Film with a minor in Screenwriting. In his free time, Burton makes sculptures, paints models, and works on his car. In addition, Burton is a full Shodan in Shudokan Karate-Do.
Book Synopsis Menus, Munitions and Keeping the Peace by : Avalon Weston
Download or read book Menus, Munitions and Keeping the Peace written by Avalon Weston and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gabrielle West wrote diaries about her war to send to her much missed favorite brother in India she had no idea that a hundred years later they would be of interest to anyone. Soon after the outbreak of the First World War, Vicars daughter Gabrielle joined the Red Cross and worked as a volunteer cook in two army convalescent hospitals. She then secured paid positions in the canteens of the Farnborough Royal Aircraft Factory and then the Woolwich Arsenal, where she watched Zeppelin raids over London during her night shifts. Having failed a mental arithmetic test to drive a horse-drawn bread van for J. Lyons, she was among the first women enrolled in the police and spent the rest of the war looking after the girls in various munitions factories. Gabrielle wrote about and drew what she saw. She had no interest in opinion or politics. She took her bicycle and her dog Rip everywhere and they appear in many of her stories. She had a sharp eye and sometimes a sharp pen. At the end of the war she was simply sent home. She spent the rest of her life caring for relatives. She lived to 100 and never married. The First World War was her big adventure. These days, the reader might feel MI5 should worry about those detailed line drawings of the processes in the factories being sent by Royal Mail across the world but a hundred years ago?
Download or read book From the Heart written by Sandy Clark and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "From the Heart", Sandy Clark tells the story of his headline-grabbing career in football as a striker, manager, coach and now much-respected pundit. From his early days with his hometown team Airdrie, Sandy Clark was a prolific scorer and notched more than 100 goals for the Diamonds. He caught the eye of both Sir Alex Ferguson and Celtic who tried to prise him away and was later named PFA Player of the Year before heading south to West Ham to star alongside Trevor Brooking, Billy Bonds and Tony Cottee. Sandy reveals why he then returned to Rangers and how he helped a young Ally McCoist through those difficult early days, before they went on to help the Light Blues to Skol Cup glory. He also reveals the pain and agony of the 1985-86 season when, with Hearts, he missed out on a league and Scottish Cup double. And he relives his Tynecastle memories, from his derby day glories to Wallace Mercer asking him to value all the Hibs players ahead of his controversial attempt to buy their capital rivals.Sandy speaks openly about his own managerial stint at Tynecastle, where he had to controversially sack Justin Fashanu and for the first time he talks about his heartbreak when Chris Robinson showed him the door and why he later turned down the chance to manage Hearts for a second spell. Clark tells all from his time at St Johnstone, where he led them to third spot, a cup final and back into Europe, where they took on the might of Monaco and also lifts the lid on the drugs nightmare with George O'Boyle and Kevin Thomas and how he believes it led to his eventual sacking. He went on to work under Jimmy Calderwood and Jimmy Nicholl at Dunfermline, Kilmarnock and Aberdeen and says why he believes an Aberdeen legend was behind their controversial Pittodrie departure. Controversial, honest and full of brand new anecdotes, "From the Heart" is an unmissable football story.
Download or read book The Quiet Assassin written by Alex Gordon and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davie Hay is a true Celtic legend. He was known as The Quiet Assassin in his playing days - a nickname given to him by Scotland manager Tommy Docherty - and he was one of the most ferocious competitors in the game. Now he has decided to talk about his truly remarkable career and reveal some secrets that will undoubtedly startle football supporters everywhere. Davie will tell his story with the force of one of his trademark bone- shuddering tackles during his playing days. He never shirked a tackle as a player at club and country level and he doesn't dodge any issues in this extraordinary book. It's a unique insight into a unique footballing individual and it is a must read for Celtic and football fans everywhere.
