Muhammad Ali

Gavin Newsham

Muhammad Ali is the greatest heavyweight boxer ever to have stepped into the ring. This title allows readers the opportunity to experience and truly appreciate the boxing and humanitarian legend's glorious achievements through a stunning selection of photographs and a stylish text.

The Treasures of Muhammad Ali

Tracing the footballing fortunes of ten England managers - Ramsey, Revie, Greenwood, Robson, Taylor, Venables, Hoddle, Eriksson, McLaren and Capello, this book shows just why the England football team has struggled to live with the weight of expectation. It describes the highs and lows, the agony and ecstacy, and close calls and the humiliations.

The Decline and Fall of the English National Football Team, from Revie to Mcclaren

Hype and Glory

An entertaining and effervescent history of the English Premier League told through the words and quotations of its players, managers, their contemporaries, and the media. From Alan Hansen's infamous “You can't win anything with kids,” and Roy Keane's “prawn sandwich” rant to Kevin Keegan's “I will love it if we beat them...” meltdown, and Sir Alex Ferguson's famous “[It's] squeaky bum time,” this stylish gift book captures the highs and lows as well the fun and theatre of 24 seasons of the Premier League. Published to mark the 25th anniversary of Premier League's formation and produced in association with the National Football Museum, the world's leading soccer museum, this chronological compilation brings together the very best quotes, comments, and soundbites to tell the story of each Premier League season, as well as a host of famous moments, in a unique and fantastically absorbing way.

A History of the English Premier League Told Through Quotes

You Can't Win Anything With Kids

For this unique gift title, the history of the Premier League is told through the words and quotations of its players, managers, their contemporaries and the media. This is the English Premier League in the words of the people who helped shape it into the world's most exciting league competition. From Alan Hansen's infamous "You can't win anything with kids†? and Roy Keane's "prawn sandwich†? rant to Kevin Keegan's "I will love it if we beat them...†? meltdown and Sir Alex Ferguson's famous "[It's] squeaky bum time†?, this beautifully packaged book captures the highs and lows as well the fun and theatre of 24 seasons of the Premier League. Branded by the National Football Museum, the world's leading football museum, the oral history approach makes for a fun and accessible book, telling the story of all of the important Premier League moments – as well as the outcome of each of the seasons – in a unique and absorbing way.

You Can’t Win Anything With Kids

The “compelling . . . detailed and thoughtful account” of the rise and fall of the Cosmos, New York’s first superstar soccer team (Kirkus Reviews). In the summer of 1977, soccer was poised to finally conquer America and the New York Cosmos were the premier sports team of the city. They boasted the greatest roster of the world’s best players—notably, Brazil’s international sensation Pelé—ever assembled for any sport. For a time, they were the darlings of the press. Their first game was televised in twenty-two different countries. They were favorites at Studio 54. They partied behind the velvet ropes with Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger. Less a growing sports phenom than a pop-culture happening, the hottest ticket in town drew the likes of Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Henry Kissinger, and Robert Redford. Warner Brothers chairman and Cosmos owner Steve Ross may not have known a goalkeeper from a zookeeper, but in a city awash in celebrity and decadence, Ross knew spectacle. He also knew how to make a dollar, and stars. But as the Cosmos players soon became enmeshed in a world of millionaires, gangsters, groupies, glamour, power struggles, alcoholic excess, drugs, disco and very public fistfights, they were set for a heartbreaking and inevitable fall. “Colorful and keen . . . [and] detail-rich, this unlikely drama of a quintessentially American flirtation” (Publishers Weekly), “is a gripping evocation of a glorious but brief moment when the beautiful game had the US entranced” (Time Out London).

Gavin Newsham

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