Sporting Events & Management

'Excellent . . . an in-depth excavation of the murky and mysterious world of football business. Smith's candid and often shocking book reveals the ...

An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League tactics, published to coincide with 25 years of...

Over the past decade, an audacious programme called Football Dreams has held trials for millions of 13-year-old boys across Africa looking for foot...

An entertaining read that enthusiasts will enjoy. Library JournalRevered as the most prestigious tournament in golf, the Masters commands internati...

'Thirty feet above ground, I picked some flecks of peeling paint from my skin and looked clean across the dressing-room rooftops ... to the cars wh...

The Spanish rider Carlos Checa triumphed in the 2011 World Superbike Championship aboard the Italian Ducati. Second and third places in the standin...

The authoritative guide to planning, organising, managing and delivery events of all sizeAnyone responsible for organising a voluntary or public ev...

'Views From the Boundary' - the Saturday lunchtime interview - has always been a highlight of the BBC's Test Match Special, a programme with a spec...

Highland Games expert Webster charts the history of the events which have been a defining feature of Scotland's identity for centuries. Uncovering ...

The people of Brazil celebrated when they learned that in the space of two years their country would host the world's two largest sporting events: ...

In this impressive book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions...

In More Blood, Sweat and Beers, World Cup-winning rugby legend Lawrence Dallaglio shares his favourite stories from his time at International rugby...

Euro 2016 will forever have a special place in the hearts and memories of Wales football supporters, especially the tens of thousands who travelle...

Sport Policy in Canada provides the first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012. In light of this new po...

For 34 years from 1973 Peter Baxter was BBC producer of the hugely popular Test Match Special, and during that time he reported on Test matches fro...

For 25 years Peter Baxter toured the world for the BBC, producing and commentating on Test Match Special from India and Pakistan to New Zealand and...

The Rugby World Cup has only been in existence since 1987, yet already it is established as the sport's premier competition - six weeks of frenzied...

SHORTLISTED FOR CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS'Paris-Roubaix is the best race in the world and knocks spots off the Tou...

From a group of enthusiasts who took their fragile hybrid machines on a run through the Surrey countryside in December 1912, to the clubs present i...

Many books have been written about the 1966 World Cup but this one is different. Brian Scovell was the only national newspaper sports writer-for th...

Officially licensed with the ACO, the organisers of the annual Le Mans 24 Hours race, this sumptuous book is the sixth title in a decade-by-decade ...

International cricket is being contaminated by crooked players, ruthless gamblers and bent officials. This staggering catalogue of revelations exp...

Geoffrey Wheatcroft's hugely entertaining and well researched history of the Tour de France is already established as the definitive account of cyc...