While most Football Manager players feel they possess innate tactical awareness, on point man-management skills and a gift for dealing with the media; even the most hardened fan would have to admit there’s much to be learned from those who ply their trade in the real world. If you want to make an immediate impact on your struggling hometown club, you need to refer back to Sir Bobby Robson. If you want to lay down the law with your young players, you need to take tips from Sir Alex Ferguson. Want to avoid a financial catastrophe? Then learn from Leeds United! So if, at any point in your life, you have imagined yourself in a tracksuit, waving your arms in the air on the touchline, with your perfect XI scribbled on the back of a beer mat and thinking ahead to the press conference, then this book is for you. After all, you’re already a football manager . . . you just haven’t been appointed yet.

The Football Manager Guide to Football Management

Computers & Technology

Macintosh, Iain

Games & Strategy Guides

Arrow

Football Manager, one of the biggest-selling computer games in the world, is 20 years old. Football Manager Stole My Life celebrates the cultural phenomenon of a game that has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Football Manager Stole My Life lifts the lid on the cult of Football Manager (FM). It is an easy-to-read, highly illustrated, light-hearted guide to the game’s lasting impact on popular culture. We hear from the gamers whose lives have been taken over by FM, a game cited in 35 divorce cases in the UK. There are interviews with the players who become world beaters in the game, but in real life never make the big leagues. The incredible scouting network of Sports Interactive is revealed. We speak to the men who make the game, and put an FM addict on the psychologist’s couch to discover what 20 years as a virtual manager has done to him.

Football Manager Stole My Life: 20 Years of Beautiful Obsession

Millar, Kenny

White,Neil

BackPage Press

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Golf But Were too Afraid to Ask explains the often-baffling laws of modern sport in a light-hearted and easy-to-understand way to the new fan/spectator or the 'sport widow'. This is a witty, off-the-wall guide to the rules of the modern game, as if written by a very patient but understanding friend. Writer Iain Macintosh explains what it is about golf that makes it so popular, and why you should be watching it. He guides the novice through the basic rules of the game in a bouncy, easy-to-fathom style, but also explains why it is a sport that contains glimpses of every facet of human emotion, making it even more compelling.  If you've ever wondered what an 'albatross' has to do with the sport, or why Tiger Woods is supposed to be so much better than everyone else, this book will tell you everything you will ever need to know about golf, but were too afraid to ask.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Golf But Were Too Afraid to Ask

Sports & Outdoors

Other Team Sports

A&C Black

The Waverley Route ran from Edinburgh, through the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle. Opening in 1862, the line was closed in 1969 as a result of the Beeching Report; feelings ran so high when it closed that there were protests which delayed the last passenger service on the line by two hours, led to the arrest of the local minister and required the local MP to mediate with the police. However, there has been an upsurge of interest and the line is due to re-open from Edinburgh to Galashiels in September 2015. Named after the famous novel by Sir Walter Scott, the line ran through the countryside where it was set, providing a link between some of the most isolated communities in Britain. The Waverley Route Through Time will take the reader on a tour through that beautiful countryside, showing through a collection of old and contemporary photographs how the local area has changed.

The Waverley Route Through Time

Arts & Photography

Perkins, Roy G.

Photography & Video

Amberley Publishing

The Border Counties Railway Through Time

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Rugby but Were Too Afraid to Ask

Bloomsbury Sport

From the award-winning team behind the Totally Football Show, one of the world's leading independent football podcasts TheTotally Football Yearbook isn't just a collection of statistics. It's analysis, insight, authority and irreverence. It's the views of some of the biggest names in football writing, the same names that make The Totally Football Show one of the world's biggest independent football podcasts. It's the breathless story of the season just passed and an eager look ahead to the season still to come. But yes, there's loads of statistics as well. I mean, we couldn't stop ourselves if we tried... We've got the Premier League, Scotland, the Women's Super League, the Football League, France, Spain, Italy and Germany all covered, and so much more besides. Will you ever need anything else to keep you informed on the beautiful game? That's really not for us to say. But no, you won't. With an introduction from James Richardson, and contributions from Iain Macintosh, Daniel Storey, James Horncastle, Carl Anka, Duncan Alexander, Nick Miller and many more, The Totally Football Yearbook is a must-have for every football fan. Pre-order your copy now.

The Totally Football Yearbook

Humor & Entertainment

Richardson, James

Miller, Nick

Storey, Daniel

Humor

Coronet

The ultimate user bible to playing Football Manager. Football Manager doesn't need you. Football Manager will happily play on without you, carefully managing and tinkering with its teams, happily playing out an eternity of football whether you are there to watch or not. To play Football Manager, at least beyond your first assignment, you have to prove yourself worthy of Football Manager. And perhaps this is where the source of the addiction lies. From the first moment, the pressure is on. Your team, your tactics, your ideas, your strategy. It's all on you and if you fail, the computer is under no obligation to let you back in. The purpose of this book is to follow those ley lines that run between the game and reality. It's to ask the managers of reality about the issues that face the managers of the game. It's to use all that the real world has to offer to give you the inspiration to prevail. Want to know how to lay down a club-wide template for free flowing football and boundless success. Ask Brendan Rodgers. Want to know how to advance from the lower leagues to the Premier League while following your instinctive desire to produce intelligent, entertaining teams? Ask Roberto Martinez. Want to know how to quickly improve teams, sometimes with the transfer market, sometimes just be cheering up the players? Ask Harry Redknapp. But we're going to go deeper. Do you want to know how to set up a scouting system that serves the needs of a 21st century elite club? Do you want to know how to balance a coaching routine, maintaining fitness while improving technique? Of course you do. That's why you picked up this book.

The Football Manager's Guide to Football Management

RANDOM HOUSE UK

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