It’s quite obvious that the sport of rugby has changed since the early days, but it’s always great to take a trip down memory lane. You can do just that with The Indomitable Frank Whitcombe: How a Genial Giant from Cardiff Became a Rugby League Legend in Yorkshire and Australia from Martin Whitcombe and Bill Bridge. It’s an extra special text because it is written by Frank’s grandson, who carried on the family tradition with Leicester Tigers and England B,
A message from our friends at Sports Interactive….. Now that all of their club’s fixtures are in the diary, there’s only one date left that real football fans need to know… and we’re happy to reveal that Football Manager 2017 and Football Manager Touch 2017 will hit the streets on Friday, November 4th. Courtesy of Sports Interactive People who buy Football Manager 2017 on PC/Mac/Linux will get a free copy of Football Manager Touch 2017 (the streamlined, ‘transfers and tactics’ version) with
Together Stronger is more than a tagline or a hashtag. It’s a philosophy, a belief that got Wales through some very difficult times and back into “the promised land” of a major tournament.
Together Stronger: The Rise of Welsh Football’s Golden Generation starts out strong with a foreword from Wales national team stalwart Ashley Williams, who gives author Chris Wathan his highest recommendation: “There are no writers who have been as close to the story as Chris over the last ten years.”
All of us at ISN are big supporters of the Welsh game from the national team to the Welsh Premier League. Cover Art Courtesy of St. David’s Press/ISBS We’ve reviewed loads of titles related to Welsh football, but feel that we found something really special with Bryn Law’s Zombie Nation Awakes – Welsh Football’s Odyssey to Euro 2016: The Diary of a Reporter Supporter. Law offers something truly unique when it comes to the Wales national team and that is a new perspective,
Rugby is one of those sports that doesn’t always translate well to a video game. There’s just something about the game that doesn’t show up on games for consoles, PCs, and mobile devices. Failures have been aplenty when it comes to rugby titles over the years. Rugby 15 received very poor reviews, with IGN calling it an “utter disaster” and Official Xbox Magazine saying it was “easily the worst sports game we’ve played.” The Daily Star called Rugby World Cup 2015
Good fiction in football is hard to come by, but the latest offering from Freight Books is a collection of the very best. Idols and Underdogs is a novel concept, 11 unique stories from 11 countries, that is executed brilliantly. Photo Credit Freight Books The book is literally a “literary Copa America,” a collection of special authors from all over Latin America. The authors include some of the world’s most respected, none bigger than Mexico’s Juan Villoro. The topics in this anthology
“The Premier League will never be the same again.” “No way this was supposed to happen.” “The most amazing sporting underdog story of all time.” All of these lines were used to describe Leicester City’s journey to become champions of the Premier League. And all of these lines came from Rob Tanner’s 5000-1: The Leicester City Story: How We Beat the Odds to Become Premier League Champions. Tanner offers a fresh perspective on the Leicester City story thanks to the fact that he
You won’t find a bigger legend in the English game than Geoff Hurst. And you won’t find a better book than Geoff Hurst’s Greats: England’s 1966 Hero Selects His Finest Ever Footballers from Icon Books. Cover Art Courtesy of Icon Books He is, after all, the only player to ever score a hat trick in a World Cup final. His 66 appearances and 29 goals during national team duty are also quite legendary. On the club side, Hurst scored 228 goals in 561
Leicester City has been the talk of the town ever since they did the impossible, winning a Premier League title despite 5000-to-1 odds. There are a number of books on this topic floating around out there, but Leicester City: The Immortals: The Inside Story of England’s Most Unlikely Champions from Harry Harris is in a league of its own. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable text, one that details a month-by-month journey into Leicester’s title season. It flows nicely from moment to moment and point to