The Hard Yards

Author: Nige Tassell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1398504475
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description
‘Gus Poyet declared it to be the toughest league in England. Neil Warnock went further, believing it to be the tightest division in Europe. Norwich boss Daniel Farke went further still: “The Championship, without any doubt, is the toughest league in the world.”’ On the final day of the 2019/20 season, only four clubs in the Championship, England’s second tier of soccer, had nothing to play for, everyone else was fighting for promotion or survival. It’s stats like this that give the league its well-deserved reputation as the most exciting league in football. Anything can happen, and often does. In The Hard Yards, Nige Tassell tells the Championship’s stories, uncovers its hidden gems and takes the reader on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the 2020/21 season. Following three clubs in particular – newly promoted Wycombe Wanderers, newly relegated Bournemouth and stalwarts Sheffield Wednesday, who start the season on 12-point deficit – he’ll dip into the seasons of clubs across the league, interviewing managers, fans, kit men and chairmen. A world away from the glamour and melodrama of the Premiership, the Championship is the heart and soul of football and in The Hard Yards Nige Tassell will take it back to basics. Praise for The Bottom Corner: ‘Warm and celebratory but also sharp and insightful, The Bottom Corner is a love letter to non-league football that is also a vivid snapshot of its place in our national life’ -- Stuart Maconie ‘A wonderful journey through life in the lower reaches of the football pyramid. A fascinating tale of a very different world of football from that of the overpaid stars of the television age’ -- Barry Davies

The Hard Yards

Author: Simon Shaw
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
ISBN: 9781845965112
Category : Rugby Union football
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: SPORT. Simon Shaw MBE has played more professional matches than any other player in English rugby history, which is remarkable given that he didn't pick up a rugby ball until he was sixteen. With a World Cup winner's medal in 2003, a runners-up medal in the 2007 competition, 50 England caps and ten trophies won with London Wasps, Shaw is one of the biggest names in rugby. Yet, Shaw has experienced his fair share of disappointments. Sir Clive Woodward delivered the lowest blow, dropping him from the final World Cup squad in 2003, despite being named man of the match in the final warm-up fixture against Wales. In "Simon Shaw: The Hard Yards - My Story", the 6 ft 9 in. lock forward recollects his bittersweet memories of this time, and charts his eventful rise to the top, from the early days playing for Bristol to enduring success at both club and international level.

Hard Yards

Author: Melissa Lucashenko
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702267597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
A powerful story of life and death on the run, from the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author of Too Much Lip. Roo Glover has two highly desirable talents – he can fight, and he can run like the clappers. In the inner-city's harsh code there are losers and survivors, and Roo's a survivor. He's made it through foster care, juvenile detention and poverty. He's an athlete, aching towards the dream of Olympic qualification. He's even coping with being white in the turbulent Aboriginal family of his girlfriend. But when cousin Stanley dies in custody, and Roo finds his father in the same week, trouble starts biting at his heels.

Back of the Yards

Author: Robert A. Slayton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226761991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
"Robert A. Slayton's Back of the Yards is one of the finest accounts I have ever read on an urban, working-class neighborhood in twentieth-century America. Its focus on family, politics, and worklife is penetrating and its conclusions reinforce an emerging scholarly picture of ordinary people exercising unique forms of power."—John Bodnar, author of The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America

Hard Yards

Author: Melissa Lucashenko
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780702230806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Roo Glover has two highly desirable talents - he can fight, and he can run like the clappers. In the inner-city's harsh code there are losers and survivors, and Roo's a survivor. A hard-hitting new novel from highly acclaimed, award-winnning Aboriginal writer Melissa Lucashenko.

Beautiful No-Mow Yards

Author: Evelyn Hadden
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604692383
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
With Beautiful No-Mow Yards, you can transform your lawn into a livable garden and bring nature's beauty into your life! What has your perfect green lawn done for you lately? Is it really worth the time, effort, and resources you lavish on it? Armed with encouragement, inspiration, and cutting-edge advice from award-winning author Evelyn Hadden, you can liberate yourself at last! In this ultimate guide to rethinking your yard, Hadden showcases dozens of inspiring, eco-friendly alternatives to that demanding (and dare we say boring?) green turf. Trade your lawn for a lively prairie or replace it with a runoff-reducing rain garden. Swap it for an interactive adventure garden or convert it to a low-maintenance living carpet.

Twenty-Five Yards of War

Author: Stephen Ambrose
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0316469661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
From the sinking decks of a navy cruiser to the cockpit of a doomed B-25 bomber, Ronald J. Drez takes us to the front lines of World War II. Through Drez's gripping narrative style, we meet twelve men, all ordinary soldiers, and learn what the war was like through their eyes, experiencing their own 'twenty-five yards of war.' The men in these pages represent all branches of the military who were sent on impossible missions, where they witnessed triumphs and tragedies. As a result of Drez's ten years of research and over 1,400 interviews, Twenty-Five Yards of War is a tribute to all of the soldiers who fought in World War II -- those who walked away with amazing stories to tell, and those who did not make it home.

Hard Yards

Author: Robert Dillon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646986104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
For 30 years, they have been the heart and soul of a region. Yet the full story of the Newcastle Knights has never been told, until now. As the club enters an exciting new era, the Newcastle Herald has produced a definitive history that encapsulates every win, every loss, every triumph and every controversy, all illustrated with spectacular photographs from our extensive archives.The book, written by award-winning journalist Robert Dillon, is a must-have collectors' item for Knights members and their many other fans.

Yards

Author: Billy Goodnick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985562212
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Award-winning landscape architect Billy Goodnick is here to help you plan the perfect outdoor environment, unique to your family's lifestyle. The book is brimming with design secrets and money-saving tips, with an emphasis on low maintenance, enjoyability, and just plain beauty.--

Hard Yards

Author: JR Carroll
Publisher: Momentum
ISBN: 1760080225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405

Book Description
It's September 2000, and the Olympic Games are about to descend on Sydney. The city is at fever pitch, but Barrett Pike, private investigator, couldn't care less. The excitement in Barrett's life comes via his part-time squeeze, the glamorous and successful Andrea Fox-Fearnor, and the after-dark activities of Sydney's notorious criminals – in particular, the sartorial stand-over man, Ernesto "Hollywood Jack" Tucci. When a violent incident at a restaurant in which Barrett's bull-at-the-gate treatment of an infamous piece of pond scum is witnessed, Barrett is made in an offer even he can't refuse – $150,000 to bodyguard Titus "Bunny" Delfranco, the fastest man in the world. Sounds like easy money, but the sprinter has a million-dollar tag on his head, and an American ex-marine turned bounty hunter, Edward Hickey, is going to have Bunny running for his life. And Barrett, together with his main man, the formidable Geoff O'Mara, is going to have his work cut out staying in the game – and staying alive. Add to this mix a shadowy team of car-bombers, an exotic beauty with gangland connections and a doomsday sect hell bent on revenge, and the result is a complex, nightmarish thriller that pushes the genre about as far as it can go this side of the apocalypse.