Search Results: Sport - Football from Hanselled Books

UK: Mainstream Publishing, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. p/b 155 pages, condition is very good. For more than a hundred years, the city of Dundee has been divided in its footballing loyalties. Today "the great divide" is one street - Tannadice Street - which separates by some 300 yards the home grounds of Dundee United and Dundee Football Club. The book looks at the origins of both clubs in the dark days of the nineteenth century. It documents the early successes, the years of frustration and revival. The story is related against a background of a changing world, with all the social and economic implications involved.

Mainstream Publishing, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6.25" x 9.5. H/B 300 pages, condition is Very good. As the first British player to score a goal in European club competition, in 1955, Hibs hero Eddie Turnbull holds a unique place in footballing history. Now, for the first time, he tells his extraordinary life story in this compelling, sometimes hilarious and thoroughly entertaining autobiography. Turnbull reveals how he became a professional footballer after just one competitive match following his demob from the Royal Navy and gives his version of how he became one-fifth of the most celebrated forward line ever to grace Scottish football - the Famous Five of Hibernian FC. He uncovers why he played no more than nine times for his nation and reveals why he had to wait until he was eighty-two to be awarded his first international 'cap'. After his playing career ended, Turnbull achieved lasting fame as manager of Aberdeen and his beloved Hibs. 'Turnbull's Tornadoes'… Read More

Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Mainstream Publishing Co Ltd, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 6.25" x 9.25. P/B 240 pages.Condition is Very Good. " An exhilarating, evocative and often hilarious stroll through the Scottish game past and present. This is a collection of interviews with famous, and not-so-famous fans. containing first-hand accounts of significant moments and occasions on and off the field, this is an indispensable look at the joys, and occasional despairs, of a game that despite the life-changfing events during the course of its history has never lost its human element, nor its power to captivate and inspire in equal measure.

John Donald, 1986. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 6" x 9. P/B 170 pages, condition is very good, minor edge wear. 1985-86 has been a season in which Hearts have set Scottish football alight and it is well worth a permanent record. This book gives a blow by blow account of every game and provides profiles of all the players who contributed to this incredible season.

Stanley Paul, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.5" X 8.75. H/B 180 pages, condition - Very good in VG jacket. There is a gift inscription in ink on the flyleaf. Gordon Strachan, the most exciting playmaker Scotland has produced in years, shot to international football fame in the 1982 World Cup as Scotland's star player and was voted by the world's press as the personality of the event. In 1983, he inspired his club Aberdeen to victory in the European Cup Winners' Cup against the legendary Real Madrid in Gothenburg. Brought up in a tough district of Edinburgh, the young Strachan resisted attempts to take him to fashionable clubs like Manchester United. He wanted to mature at home, so he joined Dundee and was captain at nineteen. But his career really blossomed when he moved to Aberdeen in 1977, at the start of a period which was to prove Pittodrie's greatest. Now the 27-year-old midfield player lifts the lid off a career which has been brimful of incident, from great… Read More

Glasgow, Scotland: First Press Publishing, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8.25" X 8.25. P/B 218 pages, condition is very good. A hundred years of drama, triumph, tragedy and heart-stopping excitement.Hampden has seen it all. Unforgettable games, historic events, superstars of sport and music, riots and infernos BScotland's colossal National Stadium has a story like no other. It has played host to Matthews and Maradona, Johnstone and Jagger, Pele and Puskas, the Tartan Army and Tina Turner. The world's greatest game. The world's greatest player scoring the world's greatest goal. Where else could all of this take place than in the world's greatest stadiumH Hampden Park. This history of Hampden Park contains many stunning and evocative photographs - certain to bring back many memories of a great stadium and great occasions

Ediburgh: Mainstream, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6.5" x 9.5. H/B 191 pages, conditionis very good. "There's only one Willie Miller" is much more than a chant favoured by Aberdeen Football Club supporters. It is a heartfelt expression by Pittodrie fans - who are not noted for extravagant displays of emotion - of their faith in a football player who has become a folk hero. The qualities which have endeared Willie Miller to Dons-followers in a record-breaking 18-year association with the one club - loyalty, courage, determination, will-to-win, and probably above all, durability - are reflected in his autobiography. The Miller's Tale, written in association with sports journalist Alastair Macdonald, who has observed Willie, on and off the field, throughout his long career with Aberdeen and Scotland. "A; Rated by many sound judges as one of the best sweepers in contemporary British, or even European football, Willie has been a target for criticism as well as praise,… Read More

John Donald, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6.25" x 9.5. Signed, signature to red flyleaf. H/B 108 pages, condition is very good, a gift inscription to the flyleaf. The burning ambition of Paul Hegarty from the time he first kicked a football was to make it to the top in the game. The story of how he did it makes inspirational reading for any youngster today with the same aim in mind. Paul has played in almost 700 senior games, with the best against the best and his record is studded with great moments. He captained the Dundee United team which won the Premier League Championship, was Club Captain of the team which beat Barcelona and Borussia Moenchen Gladbach to reach the UEFA Cup Final, and scored the goal which put his team into the 1986/87 Scottish Cup Final. His achievements include eight full Scotland caps, one as captain of his country; two over-age Under-21 honours, both as captain; a League International honour; two League Cup successes while captaining Dundee United; and the… Read More

Edinburgh, scotland: John Donald, 1987. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 6.75" x 9. P/B 188 pages, condition is Very Good, minor edge wear. Two seasons ago Dunfermline Athletic F.C., the club which had featured prominently in Scottish and European football in the 1960s, was languishing in the Second Division. Under the inspired guidance of manager Jim Leishman they have completed an amazing double by going from the Second Division to the Premier league in successive seasons to become Fife's first representatives in the Premier League. Such an achievement is well worth recording and John Hunter in this history of the two remarkable seasons has done just that by recording in detail all the games which brought Dunfermline from the obscurity of the Second Division to the top division in Scotland in two short years. Every true fan of Dunfermline Athletic will want this book as a permanent record of a great team.

UK: Tempus, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0.4 x 6.3 x 8.9 inches. P/B 128 pages, condition is very good. This book is part of the Images of Sport series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local sports in Great Britain.

Mainstream Pubishing, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6.5" x 9.5. H/B 254 pages, condition is very good. Who has ever seen Jim Baxter at his best and can forget it? Or Denis Law flying high, Gordon Smith full of grace on the wing or Jinky Johnstone at his cheekiest? Football memories are made of moments like these. And they are all in A Scottish Football Hall of Fame along with profiles of one hundred of the best players in the country's colourful history - players like Bobby Templeton, Alan Morton, Jimmy Delaney, Kenny Dalglish and Ally McCoist to name only a few of the greats who inspired whole generations of Scotland supporters. Their stories, as told here, are thrilling, tragic and funny. Men who were once household names are captured in their sporting immortality and introduced to a new generation who never saw them play. But this volume is more than a mere catalogue of players who have worn the dark blue of Scotland. It is an original overview of the beautiful game as it… Read More

DB Publishing, 2013. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 6" x 9.25. p/b 202 pages, condition is NEW. A Kilmarnock man, he joined Celtic in 1903 from Bristol Rovers and was an integral part of the team which won six League Championships in a row from 1905-1910. After becoming captain he led the team to success in another three Championships between 1914 and 1916 before he suffered a bad injury which ended his career.

Collins Willow, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6.25" x 9.5. h/b 320 pages, condition is Very good. His now famous resignation from his position as Chief Executive of the Football Association brought to an end a long and distinguished career for Graham Kelly. In this book, he defends his involvement in the plot to "buy" the World Cup voting rights of the Welsh FA, and reveals the covert plot by some leading figures in British football to oust him from office. Kelly's inside information with regard to the power struggles at Lancaster Gate is unrivalled and he holds nothing back in this compelling look behind-the-scenes. He talks at length about the legacy of Bert Millichip, the plans for restructuring the game, the buying of the National Stadium, his views on leading figures such as Irving Scholar and Ken Bates, as well as the ever-present battles for supremacy.

UK: Mainstream, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6.25" x 9.5. h/b 240 pages, condition is very good. Since his move to Celtic in the summer of 2005, Shunsuke Nakamura has become a cult hero in both Scotland and the Far East. From the wonderful goal in his Champions League debut against Manchester United in 2006 to the strike against Kilmarnock that secured Celtic's league win in 2006-07, Nakamura has firmly established himself as a Celtic legend. Nakamura's ability to confront and overcome adversity has been the key to his success. From his rejection as a youngster by home-town club Yokohama Marinos to his omission from the 2002 World Cup squad by Philippe Troussier and his struggle to adapt to the defensive nature of Italian football, Nakamura has bounced back stronger every time. "The Zen of Naka" is a comprehensive, revealing account of Nakamura's career to date. It explores his development from the early stages of his footballing journey to his time with Celtic at… Read More