Travelling football fans will welcome the latest edition of Football Grounds – A Fans Guide 2019/20 which gives details of all the Premier League and Football League grounds across the country including best pubs, directions and travel options. Compiled by Duncan Adams, who has visited all 92 clubs, and with a picture of the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on the cover, discounted copies can be ordered through this site.
Relive one of the most extraordinary seasons in the history of Liverpool Football Club with the Official Season Diary 2018/19. The Reds amassed a club record 97 points in an amazing Premier League title race, losing just once, but were still pipped to the title by a single point by Manchester City. Yet Jurgen Klopp’s side then crowned a thrilling campaign by beating Tottenham Hotspur in the UEFA Champions League final, adding a sixth European Cup to the Anfield trophy cabinet. Former sports journalist of the year Harry Harris and writer and editor Alan Beck have followed the team from pre-season in the States to the final in Madrid and bring you the official story, month-by-month. The book includes reports from every game, facts and figures, player and media reaction and exclusive interviews with Red legends including Ray Clemence, Alan Kennedy, Michael Owen, Steve McManaman and many more. After a rollercoaster ride from August to June, it’s a must-read for every Liverpool fan. Their inspirational centre-half Virgil van Dijk was voted Player of the Season by his fellow PFA professionals. Wing-backs Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson joined the above in the team of the season and were instrumental in the style of play that had the whole of Anfield on their feet.
Their charismatic manager Jurgen Klopp wrote the foreword was equally relived and euphoric to have ended the campaign with a trophy: ” It’s been an unbelievable season. This team is one of the best to have ever played for Liverpool, 100%. “
Billed as ‘Three Days of Peace & Music’, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair attracted an audience of more than 400,000 people to a diary farm in the Catskill Mountains north of New York in August 1969 where iconic bands and singers such as Jimi Hendrix and The Who helped make magical music history. With exclusive unseen pictures of the crowds and performers, the full-colour illustrated coffee-table book is also infused with the scent of marijuana just to help bring back the memories!
Tieing in with the 50th anniversary of commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin landing the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on the moon on July 20, 1969, is the release of a new fully-illustrated hardback book, The Eagle Has Landed, from G2 Entertainment/Murray Books this May. With an introduction from Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the NASA endorsed book tells the complete story of the Apollo 11 mission and is priced at a down to earth £19.95.
G2 is handling the worldwide rights and publicity for Matt Ogborn’s new biography of Tyson Fury, entitled The Comeback King which is due for release this September.
Once the bad boy of British boxing, Tyson Fury was
widely underrated – his flamboyant lifestyle and
outlandish antics drawing attention to his life outside
the ring, rather than his achievements in it. But a
truly dominant display against one of the greatest
heavyweight boxers of all time, Wladimir Klitschko,
changed all of that. Fury became champion of the
world and resolutely silenced his doubters.
With the world at his feet, however, Fury struggled
with depression and started to party hard. He was
banned from boxing for the use of illegal substances
and was stripped of his title. After ballooning to
nearly 24 stone in weight, many questioned whether
he would ever step into the ring again.
What followed was one of the great sporting
comebacks. Fury rediscovered his love of boxing
and began training again. In just nine months he was
back in shape and on the title trail, with Deontay
Wilder, the WBC heavyweight champion, the man in
his sights. The two faced off in LA in what was one of
the most memorable fights of the modern era. Wilder
controversially retained his title following a 12-round
split decision draw, but Fury won over the boxing
world and wrote his name into the history books.
Tieing in with the start of the ICC Cricket World Cup and the Ashes series this summer, is a new biography on Sir Alastair Cook, England’s greatest ever batsman. Cook, who was knighted in the New Year’s Honours List, retired from international cricket last September but is to carry on playing for Essex. He is currently commentating on England’s unsuccessful Test series in the West Indies. Author Ollie Brett is a reknowned BBC cricket blogger. G2 is handling the worldwide rights and publicity for the book which is released in May, priced at £9.99. Copies can be pre-ordered via cricshop.com