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We are building an excellent selection of books worth reading on Wideopen Juniors website.
If anyone wants to provide reviews of any of these books, we'd like to hear from you.
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The most capped England rugby scrum-half of all time, a captain of his country, and a two-times British Lions tourist, Matt Dawson’s career story is a colourful tale spiced with controversy, from club rugby at Northampton to England winning the Rugby World Cup in Australia.
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Barry Fry is one of the most colourful characters in English football. Currently at Peterborough, his journeyman career has taken him to OldTrafford, where as a player he was one of the original Busby Babes, through
to football management at Barnet, Southend and Birmingham, among other clubs.
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High jinks and japes from Soccer Saturday's roving reporter extraordinaire, Chris "Kammy" Kamara, whose boyish enthusiasm and often baffling, at-the-ground football reportage has given him cult status and an army of fans.
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Forget Torres, Rooney, Beckham and the like. This is what football is really about. One man’s story of a career in the lower leagues. Chris Hargreaves has been a professional footballer for twenty years. Having started out
as a youth team player at Everton he made his debut for Grimsby Town in 1989 and was
earmarked as their first million pound sale. It never happened.
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A rip-roaring narrative celebration of the 21st century’s great transport success story: the bicycle. Millions of us now cycle, some obsessively, and this glorious concoction of history, anecdote, adventure and lycra-clad pedalling is the perfect read for two-wheelers of all kinds.
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Can we really ALL be the best? Is the idea of innate ability holding us back? Could the ability to fail – and then get over it – be fundamental to success?
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An anecdote-driven narrative of the classic footballer's ‘DOs and DO NOTs’ from the ever-popular Arsenal legend and football pundit Paul Merson, aka ‘The Merse’. When it comes to advice on the pitfalls of life as a professional footballer, Paul Merson can
pretty much write the manual. In fact, that's exactly what he's done in this hilarious new
book which manages to be simultaneously poignant and gloriously funny.
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Get in touch if you have read a sports book which you would recommend to everyone else too.
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The Stig gets his kit off and reveals how he came to be Top Gear's iconic racing driver and so much more - including what it's like to thrash an Aston
Martin DBS, train for the Army and face the terror of Jeremy Clarkson's underwear…
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