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FIAZ RAFIQ is a professional sports and entertainment writer for more than half a dozen national newspapers. For fifteen years, he was a chief columnist for a bestselling combat sports magazine MAI, and also contributed to Men’s Fitness, Muscle & Fitness and Impact: The Global Action Movie Magazine. Fiaz co-authored My Brother, Muhammad Ali: The Definitive Biography of the Greatest of All Time with Rahaman Ali.
Muhammad Ali is one of the most remarkable sports personalities and celebrities of our time. He is a legend who transcended boxing and rose above all sport. A man of mythic proportions, Ali rose to become a prominent feature of our cultural landscape.
Through exclusive accounts from family members, close friends, associates and adversaries, Fiaz Rafiq has compiled a compelling and intriguing insight into a sporting legend. Muhammad Ali: The Life of a Legend is the ultimate tribute to one of the greatest icons in world sport.
Muhammad Ali’s story is an epic one, one of bravery, courage, hope, abundance and overcoming difficult obstacleswith an indomitable will
Contributors include his adversaries George Foreman, Larry Holmes and Joe Bugner, friends and associates such as Don King and Evander Holyfield, and four of Ali’s children
With a specially written Foreword by Muhammad Ali’s daughter, Rasheda Ali
FIAZ RAFIQ
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ISBN: 9781909715936Price: £16.99 | Publication: 07 May 2020Format: 234 x 156mm Trade pbk | Extent: 392ppIllustrations: 30 photographs throughoutePub: 9781788853293Rights: World All Languages (exc. Spain)
Muhammad AliThe Life of a Legend
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Labels such as ‘icon’ or ‘legend’ are rarely attached to one individual to the degree that they are to Bruce Lee. He only made a handful of films, yet four and a half decades after his untimely death at the age of 32, the Little Dragon’s influence on culture is as strong as ever.
Bruce Lee: The Life of a Legend is a unique oral biography that combines the memories of Lee’s original students, close friends, co-stars and colleagues – those who knew him best – to provide a candid view on the action movie star adored by millions, capturing the essence of a complex man in a way no straightforward narrative ever could.
This a unique biography told in the words of the people who knew Bruce Lee best
Foreword by Diana Lee Inosanto (Bruce Lee’s goddaughter)
The official Bruce Lee Facebook page has over 21 million followers and 3.6 million Instagram followers
FIAZ RAFIQ Bruce LeeThe Life of a Legend
‘There have been hundreds of books on Bruce Lee since his shocking death in 1973, including my own. However, Fiaz Rafiq’s oral history still punches and kicks into new
territory’ Alex Ben Block,
The Hollywood Reporter
ISBN: 9781909715950Price: £16.99 | Publication: 20 July 2020Format: 234 x 156mm Trade pbk | Extent: 392ppIllustrations: 30 photographs throughoutePub: 9781788853309Rights: World All Languages
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Made in AfricaThe History of African Players in English Football
ISBN: 9781909715929 Price: £14.99 | Publication: 01 June 2020Format: 234 x 156mm Demy hbk | Extent: 320ppIllustrations: 16pp colour platesePub: 9781788852838Rights: World English Language
ED AARONS is a sports journalist for The Guardian who has been an expert on African football for more than a decade. He has built a reputation for being one of the best of the new generation of football journalists in the country, with particularly close links to African players in the Premier League.
The signing of Naby Keïta for almost £53m in August 2017 was the third time in the space of 14 months that Liverpool broke the transfer record for an African player. Ed Aarons tells the story of the thrilling 2018/19 campaign that ended with the club’s sixth European crown after just missing out to Manchester City in the thrilling Premier League title race.
Yet the historic 2018/19 season would not have been possible had it not been for those who blazed the trail before them. Made in Africa tells the story of the pioneers who changed the face of English football forever.
A unique and fascinating exploration of the impact of African footballers in the UK, the place they hold in history and the impact they are making on the game today
Ed Aarons is a sports journalist for the Guardian who has been an expert in African football for more than a decade
Features exclusive interviews with the Liverpool players and many more household names
ED AARONS
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ANDREW DOWNIE
The 1970 World Cup is widely regarded as the greatest ever staged, with more goals scored per game than any tournament since. But more than just the proliferation of goals was the quality of the overall football, as some of the greatest teams ever to represent the likes of Argentina, West Germany, Uruguay and England came together for a tilt at the world title.
Using brand new interviews alongside painstaking archival research, Andrew Downie charts each stage of the World Cup, telling the remarkable story of the tournament in the players’ own words.
Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the greatest World Cup competition ever staged, this is the story of Mexico 1970
Using new interviews as well as archive material this book takes you right to the heart of the action like never before
Andrew Downie is the Brazilian football correspondent for Reuters, and he also contributes to The Guardian, The NewYork Times, GQ and The Economist
The Greatest Show on EarthMexico 1970
ISBN: 9781909715967Price: £17.99 | Publication: 03 September 2020Format: 234 x 156mm Royal Hbk | Extent: 320ppIllustrations: 16pp b/w platesePub: 9781788853217Rights: World All Languages
ANDREW DOWNIE lived in Brazil for over 15 years. He is the best- selling author of the critically-acclaimed Doctor Socrates: Footballer, Philosopher and Legend. Now based in London, he still spends much of the year in Brazil.
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ISBN: 9781909715646 Price: £9.99 | Publication: 14 February 2020Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk | Extent: 240ppIllustrations: 8pp colour plates ePub: 9781788851039Rights: World All Languages
From being the most dominant club in Scottish football history, Rangers F.C., one of the most famous and powerful names in British sport, was sold to venture capitalist Craig Whyte in 2011 ... for £1. The ‘great Whyte hope’ was touted for a time as Rangers’ saviour but he was soon hung out to dry as the fall guy for Rangers’ misery as the unthinkable happened. The club was plunged into liquidation and the reformed club suffered the indignity of demotion to the third division, the lowest echelon of Scottish professional football.
Full of startling revelations, this is the previously untold story of greed, corruption and scandal at the heart of Rangers F.C., told, definitively, by the man who was at the very centre of the storm.
This is the explosive autobiography of Craig Whyte, the man at the very centre of the Rangers scandal
Craig Whyte reveals all about his controversial time in charge of the Ibrox club, which ended with it being plunged into liquidation
This sensational insider account will be the focal point for sports and business discussions throughout the country
CRAIG WHYTE Into the Bear PitThe Explosive Autobiography
CRAIG WHYTE is a Scottish businessman who began his career with a plant hire company, before branching out into various sectors including security, property and manufacturing. He heads London-based group, Liberty Capital.
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Gunnersaurus, the iconic mascot of Arsenal FC, has gone missing!
From crowded stadiums to beach-side five-a-side tournaments, can you find Arsenal’s lucky charm and return him safe to the Emirates Stadium?
With over 200 characters and items to find, plus a host of bonus content and games, this uniquely illustrated search-and-find book is perfect for Arsenal fans young and old!
A fully licensed product of Arsenal FC
This book will be fully promoted by Arsenal through all their media and retail outlets
The first in a fantastic new series of licensed Search & Find books
Where’s Gunnersaurus?An Arsenal Search & Find Activity Book
ISBN: 9781909715998Price: £9.99 | Publication: 06 August 2020Format: 297 x 210mm Hbk | Extent: 48ppIllustrations: colour throughoutePub: n/aRights: World All Languages
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Busby’s Last CrusadeFrom Munich to Wembley: A Pictorial History
ISBN: 9781909715899 Price: £20.00 | Publication: 03 September 2020Format: 234 x 156mm Royal hbk | Extent: 336ppIllustrations: b/w throughoutePub: 9781788853132Rights: World All Languages
JEFF CONNOR is a highly experienced sports journalist and the author of eleven books,including an entertaining account of the Tour De France, Wide-Eyed and Legless and Up, Down and Under, a diary of the 2001 Lions Rugby Tour to Australia.
The Munich air disaster was one of the most tragic incidents to ever occur in British sport. The crash at Munich airport in 1958 claimed the lives of twenty-three people, including eight of Manchester United’s first team, and injured many more, including United’s iconic manager, Matt Busby.
Busby’s Last Crusade charts the aftermath of the tragedy, from the poignant scenes of mourning in Manchester to the team’s return to the field as Busby began the heart-wrenching task of rebuilding the club.
A portrait of the golden age of British football, and a tale of resilience in the face of tragedy which resulted in the club’s victory in the European Cup final at Wembley ten years later
Illustrated throughout with over 100 powerful never-before-seen images from the Mirror Group’s extensive archives
Gripping, thoroughly-researched account of one of the greatest disasters in British sport
JEFF CONNOR
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