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“rob hadgraft”

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  • Luton Town's Miracle

    The Fairytale Rise from Non-League to Premier League

    by Rob Hadgraft ...
    For five seasons from 2009 to 2014 Luton Town FC was marooned in non-League football. A club that had earlier enjoyed several spells in the English game’s top flight had slumped to this low point due to mismanagement, financial irregularities and crippling points deductions.After repeated bouts of play-off pain in the Conference, a return to the League was secured in 2014 – the start of an ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Pioneers in Bloomers

    The True Story of the Pedestriennes - British Sport’s First Female Celebrities

    by Rob Hadgraft ...
    Women’s sport is finally flourishing in Britain. But still largely unrecognised are the pioneering efforts of the Victorian era ‘pedestriennes’ who laid the foundations for modern woman to participate in professional sport.Dozens of these working-class women abandoned humdrum lives to become history’s first professional sportswomen. They bravely put personal safety and decorum aside to tackle ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Old Farm: Ipswich Town v Norwich City - A History

    by Rob Hadgraft ...
    Series series Desert Island Football Histories
    Urban neighbours Celtic and Rangers are known throughout British football as The Old Firm, but for Ipswich Town and Norwich City its more a case of The Old Farm. Separated by 40 miles of arable fields and woodland, the Canaries and the Tractor Boys have been doing battle for more than 100 years, just like their counterparts in Glasgow. Eastern England may be a footballing outpost, but its derby ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Luton Town

    The Non-League Years

    by Rob Hadgraft ...
    LUTON TOWN, a top-flight club throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, suffered a catastrophic slide out of the Football League, helped on their way by stringent and controversial penalties imposed by the football authorities. After eighty-nine years among the elite, this well supported club found itself, in 2009, competing alongside part-timers in non-League circles. It was the start of five years ... Read more

    $14.19 USD

  • Chelsea: Champions of England 1954-55

    by Rob Hadgraft ...
    Series series Desert Island Football Histories
    For years Chelsea FC were English football's music hall joke. Then, in 1955, they shocked the sporting world by winning the Football League championship. The event was so unexpected that there was no champagne to swig, no lap of honour by the players. The chairman, manager and skipper said a few polite words from the directors' box, and that was about it. Tens of thousands of long-suffering ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ipswich Town: Champions of England 1961-62

    by Rob Hadgraft ...
    Series series Desert Island Football Histories
    Giant-killers and gallant underdogs are the lifeblood of British football. Rarely, however, does a rank outsider actually win one of the big prizes. But in the 1961-62 season Ipswich Town achieved the 'impossible' and lifted the Football League Championship trophy at the first attempt. A more unlikely candidate for winning the toughest League in the world is hard to imagine. This humble, small ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Tea with Mr Newton: 100,000 Miles - The Longest Protest March in History

    by Rob Hadgraft ...
    Series series Desert Island Athletics Histories
    British author Rob Hadgraft specialises in biographies of marathon and ultra-distance runners. All are available worldwide as ebooks. His five subjects to date are:1. The Little Wonder: The Untold Story of Alfred Shrubb - World Champion Runner.2. Beer and Brine: The Making of Walter George - Athletics' First Superstar.3. Deerfoot: Athletics' Noble Savage - From Indian Reservation to Champion of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Plimsolls On, Eyeballs Out: The Rise and Horrendous Fall of Marathon Legend Jim Peters

    by Rob Hadgraft ...
    Series series Desert Island Athletics Histories
    British author Rob Hadgraft specialises in biographies of marathon and ultra-distance runners. All are available worldwide as ebooks. His five subjects to date are:1. The Little Wonder: The Untold Story of Alfred Shrubb - World Champion Runner.2. Beer and Brine: The Making of Walter George - Athletics' First Superstar.3. Deerfoot: Athletics' Noble Savage - From Indian Reservation to Champion of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Little Wonder: The Untold Story of Alfred Shrubb - World Champion Runner

    by Rob Hadgraft ...
    Series series Desert Island Athletics Histories
    British author Rob Hadgraft specialises in biographies of marathon and ultra-distance runners. All are available worldwide as ebooks. His five subjects to date are:1. The Little Wonder: The Untold Story of Alfred Shrubb - World Champion Runner.2. Beer and Brine: The Making of Walter George - Athletics' First Superstar.3. Deerfoot: Athletics' Noble Savage - From Indian Reservation to Champion of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ipswich Town: The Modern Era 1971-2006

    by Rob Hadgraft ...
    Series series Desert Island Football Histories
    Although it took Ipswich Town FC many years to take the plunge and turn professional, once they did so they quickly prospered. Town joined the Football League in 1938, and, before 20 seasons had elapsed, had three divisional championships in the bag - including, astonishingly, the League title at the very first attempt! A team of unsung country cousins profited from the tactical innovations of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Deerfoot: Athletics' Noble Savage - From Indian Reservation to Champion of the World

    by Rob Hadgraft ...
    Series series Desert Island Athletics Histories
    British author Rob Hadgraft specialises in biographies of marathon and ultra-distance runners. All are available worldwide as ebooks. His five subjects to date are:1. The Little Wonder: The Untold Story of Alfred Shrubb - World Champion Runner.2. Beer and Brine: The Making of Walter George - Athletics' First Superstar.3. Deerfoot: Athletics' Noble Savage - From Indian Reservation to Champion of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Colchester United: From Conference to Championship

    by Rob Hadgraft ...
    Series series Desert Island Football Histories
    Since 1992 Colchester United have risen from the obscurity of Non-League football to the upper echelons of the Championship, a feat that shocked its own supporters, never mind the football world at large. Season after season the pundits have made the Us certainties for relegation, but time and again the team have defied the odds. For a cash-strapped club operating from a tiny, tumbledown ground in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD