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The Unbelievables

Autor: David Bevan

Número de Páginas: 290

At the beginning of April 2015, newly-promoted Leicester City were seven points adrift at the foot of the Premier League. What happened next was truly extraordinary. Not only did Leicester pull off one of the great escapes to survive in the top flight but they continued their form into the following season. The manager who orchestrated Leicester’s promotion and survival, Nigel Pearson, had left the club by then, replaced by the former Chelsea, Juventus and Roma manager Claudio Ranieri. The press gave “the Tinkerman” no hope of staying the course and the bookies installed Leicester as one of the favourites to be relegated. They were priced at 5,000/1 to win the Premier League. With four games remaining, they stand on the edge of history. The season would make stars of Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez. In November, Vardy broke Ruud van Nistelrooy’s record by scoring in eleven consecutive Premier League games. Mahrez’s goals and assists, including magnificent solo goals against ChelseaandManchester City, made him favourite to win the PFA Footballer of the Year award. If Arsenal’s unbeaten season in 2003/04 saw their team dubbed the Invincibles, then Leicester’s exploits in...

The Leicester City Story

Autor: Rob Tanner

Número de Páginas: 231

**A REVISED AND SIGNIFICANTLY UPDATED EDITION OF ROB TANNER'S 5000-1- NOW COVERING THE FIVE YEARS SINCE LEICESTER CITY'S INCREDIBLE PREMIER LEAGUE TITLE WIN.** On 2 May 2016, English football was spectacularly altered as 5000-1 longshots Leicester City were crowned Premier League champions. Their victory broke a long-standing monopoly at the top of the table, and propelled the club into the Champions League for the first time. In The Leicester City Story: Five Years On, acclaimed Athletic Leicester City correspondent Rob Tanner relives City's title win, their summer of celebration and the highs and lows of the next five years that led to their first FA Cup win in 2021. Detailing the dramatic changes in the club's management since 2016, and reflecting on the great legacy of the club's much-loved owner, Khun Vichai, Tanner tells the inside story of a remarkable team still on the rise.

Claudio Ranieri

Autor: Aris Gatas

Número de Páginas: 292

How does a team and a coach, who were nearly forgotten three years ago, achieve the impossible? How do they rise to the top and conquer the Premier League, the toughest league in the world? Everyone is entitled to dream big after Claudio Ranieri's miracle with Leicester City. Sports reporter Aris Gatas has followed Ranieri's course over the last two years, collecting exclusive interviews and reports and using them to create this detailed biography of Ranieri. The last three years had their ups and downs for Claudio Ranieri—from the outcry over the Greek national team's downfall, to the triumph of bringing Leicester to the Premier League title! The Italian coach became a symbol of faith in reaching one's goals. He is a fine example of optimism, confidence, and positive energy. He is the Tinkerman who transformed into the THINKERman. Ranieri's achievements will captivate you. With anecdotal, shocking stories from all those whose lives were changed after the miracle of Leicester, this book is a guide for young people who dream of conquering the remarkable world of soccer, and more besides.

Nómada United

Autor: Nacho González

Número de Páginas: 262

El primer libro de Panenka con La Media Inglesa. Maidstone United siempre ha sido un equipo diferente, y nunca por una buena razón. Nadie ha sufrido una caída tan pronunciada en el fútbol inglés: del profesionalismo a jugar en parques públicos. Ningún otro ha pasado décadas exiliado de su ciudad y sin estadio propio. Su humilde historia cautivó a Nacho González, pero no fue hasta que conoció por casualidad a Sam Bone, su centrocampista titular, que el autor viajó allí para hacerla suya. Este libro cuenta cómo un club que sobrevivió a traidores, estafadores y hasta a criminales en los peores campos del Reino Unido protagonizó en 2024, junto a unos aficionados irreductibles y unos futbolistas que jamás serán millonarios, una de las mayores hazañas que se recuerdan en la FA Cup, el torneo más antiguo del fútbol. Es posible que nunca hayas visto un partido del Maidstone. Pero, después de conocer su aventura, no olvidarás lo que lograron.

Northumberland Words

Autor: Harry Haldane

Número de Páginas: 434

Northumberland Words

Autor: Oliver Heslop

Número de Páginas: 360

Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language

Autor: John Jamieson

Número de Páginas: 710

Giant Days Vol. 5

Autor: John Allison

Número de Páginas: 116

Written by John Allison (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round) and illustrated by Max Sarin, Giant Days Volume 5 finishes off freshman year in style, collecting issues #17-20 of the Eisner Award-nominated series. Their freshman year is finally coming to a close and Daisy, Susan, and Esther say goodbye to Catterick Hall forever. Literally forever. It's being bulldozed and re-purposed as a luxury dorm next semester. But as one door closes, another opens and between end of semester hookups, music festivals, and moving into their first home together, their life experiences are just getting started.

Giant Days #17

Autor: John Allison

Número de Páginas: 27

McGraw's new girlfriend is the Anti-Susan, Esther and Ed get into hot water with a money-making scheme, and Daisy has trouble with a professor on an archaeological dig.

Funny Money

Autor: Warren Murphy , Richard Sapir

Número de Páginas: 200

The San Diego branch of the Secret Service is receiving some absolutely perfect counterfeit U.S. currency in the mail, and getting nervous. A flood of these bogus bucks could cripple the economy - which is just what Mr Gordons threatens to do unless he receives a computer program developed by NASA for use in unmanned space flights. Yet the program is virtually useless within a million miles of earth . . . Just who is this Mr Gordons? What is the source of his mysterious powers? And what is his relationship with the beautiful, brilliant scientist who heads the space research program? Only one man can crack the plot. Remo Williams is The Destroyer, an ex-cop who should be dead, but instead fights for the secret government law-enforcement organisation CURE. Trained in the esoteric martial art of Sinanju by his aged mentor, Chiun, Remo is America's last line of defence. Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.

The Library at Hellebore

Autor: Cassandra Khaw

Número de Páginas: 304

Dark academia meets cosmic horror in this murderous tale of betrayal and broken hearts at an elite academy for the gods and monsters of the world, perfect for fans of The Atlas Six, If We Were Villains and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously powerful: the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers. Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that's what Alessa Li is told when she's kidnapped and forcibly enrolled. But there's more to Hellebore than meets the eye. On graduation day, the faculty go on a ravenous rampage, feasting on Alessa's class. Only Alessa and a group of her classmates escape the carnage. Trapped in the school's library, they must offer a human sacrifice every night, or else the faculty will break down the door and kill everyone.

A Black Forest Walden

Autor: David Farrell Krell

Número de Páginas: 379

Compares life today in the German Black Forest with Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond. Finalist for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Essay Category A Black Forest Walden is a work of philosophical reflection, nature description, and sly humor. In brief chapters, or aphorisms, the American philosopher David Farrell Krell recounts his experiences in a cabin located in the mountains of southern Germany's Black Forest, where he has lived for several decades. Insofar as Krell compares his experiences with those of Henry David Thoreau, who serves as both inspiration and irritation, the book could be described as a critical commentary on Thoreau's Walden. Yet it equally reads as a rigorous yet playful and profoundly literary manifestation of where and how the mind wanders. Hence, the "Marlonbrando" of the subtitle is not the late actor but a feral cat who frequents the cabin and comes to be an important interlocutor, as if playing the role of analyst to the author. The subjects Krell treats are wide-ranging: the changing seasons, environmental issues, romantic love, parent-child relations, European versus American "values," higher education, artistic creativity,...

A Dictionary of the Scottish Language

Autor: John Jamieson

Número de Páginas: 802

Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

Autor: John Ayto , John Simpson

Número de Páginas: 424

Offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney 'abaht' to the American term 'zowie', this is the most authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Merchant Vessels of the United States...

Autor: United States. Coast Guard

Número de Páginas: 1436

A Bibliography of English Etymology

Autor: Anatoly Liberman , Ari Hoptman , Nathan E. Carlson

Número de Páginas: 975

Distinguished linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman set out the frame for this volume in An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology. Here, Liberman's landmark scholarship lay the groundwork for his forthcoming multivolume analytic dictionary of the English language. A Bibliography of English Etymology is a broadly conceptualized reference tool that provides source materials for etymological research. For each word's etymology, there is a bibliographic entry that lists the word origin's primary sources, specifically, where it was first found in use. Featuring the history of more than 13,000 English words, their cognates, and their foreign antonyms, this is a full-fledged compendium of resources indispensable to any scholar of word origins.

The Claudio Ranieri Quote Book

Autor: Blink Publishing

Número de Páginas: 173

On squad building: 'If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?' On his technical advisor: 'My only technical adviser is my mother. When I told her that Damien [Duff] had injured his shoulder again, she said 'Oh no!' Who should replace him? I will call her before the game to ask.' On bookmakers: 'I don't believe in the bookmakers. The bookmakers at the beginning predicted that the [first manager] sacked would be Ranieri. The first!' On Jamie Vardy: 'This is not a footballer. This is a fantastic horse.' We all know the story by now: Leicester City were relegation fodder at the start of the 2015/16 season. Written off, laughed at, berated in the press the team and their manager were dead certs to be kicking off the following season in the Championship. Then, some nine months later, they were crowned Premier League champions, with the majority of the football establishment left scratching their heads as to just how they managed it. This rollercoaster of a season was perfectly captured by their eccentric manager, Claudio Ranieri, whose mixture of charm, wit, weird idioms and...

Lost?

Autor: Anthony Carragher

Número de Páginas: 512

As Liverpool F.C. reach their 125th anniversary, amidst the celebrations, doubts persist. Are they still elite? Can their prolonged title drought be ended? Foreign owners say they came to win but the trophy cabinet lies bare. Where to next for the reds? Lost? explores the gloried past, the moneyed present and the uncertain future of both Liverpool F.C. and the English game at large. Have they lost their way? Liverpool F.C.’s most famous manager, Bill Shankly, declared that the club ‘exists to win trophies’ and for many years this maxim proved true, as Liverpool became one of the most successful clubs in European football and dominated the scene in England for over two decades. Yet recently, the victories have dried up and Liverpool have not won the league title in over a quarter of a century. Football is also in a state of flux as major TV deals have made the Premier league the wealthiest in the world, but the gap between the elite clubs and those striving to catch up widens. Has the game lost it’s soul? Who will rise and who will fall as a new uncharted era in football unfolds? Lost? captures exclusive interviews with key figures including former Liverpool managers,...

Ding Dong Bell

Autor: Percy Marshall Young

Número de Páginas: 146

Eighty nursery rhymes arranged with music under such topics as animals, people, places, things, and nonsense.

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Autor: Francis James Child

Número de Páginas: 542

“The” English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Autor: Child

Número de Páginas: 268

Jamie Vardy: From Nowhere, My Story

Autor: Jamie Vardy

Número de Páginas: 289

The Sunday Times Bestseller and Number 1 Sport Book of 2016 'A tale that's truly inspirational' The Sun An ordinary lad from Sheffield, Jamie Vardy has become known as an against-the-odds footballing hero the world over. Yet a few years ago, things couldn’t have been any more different. Rejected as a teenager by his boyhood club, Jamie thought his chance was gone. But from playing pub football and earning £30 a week at Stocksbridge Park Steels, while still working in a factory, his off-the-cuff performances saw him rise. Jamie had a wild and turbulent youth, but football became his saving grace and, once he filled his boots with goals at FC Halifax Town and Fleetwood Town, he moved to Leicester City. After the miracle of surviving relegation, the team of unlikely outsiders bonded together to achieve the unthinkable: Jamie set the record as the first player to score in 11 consecutive Premier League matches and Leicester beat odds of 5000-1 to become champions. Jamie has now been nominated for the Ballon d’Or, firmly establishing himself as one of England’s leading goal scoring footballers. Not forgetting his roots, however, he has set up the V9 Academy in a bid to find the...

Notes and Queries

Número de Páginas: 1074

Fearless

Autor: Jonathan Northcroft

Número de Páginas: 229

"The odds of the Foxes winning the Premier League at the start of the season were the same as the Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster being proven to exist, Christmas being the warmest day of the year in England or Barack Obama playing cricket for England after he left the Oval Office." -- ESPN On March 21, 2015, Leicester City lost their sixth game in eight matches. Without a victory for two months, they were rock bottom of the English Premier League, heading for certain relegation to the lower division, and about to miss out on a once-in-a-lifetime financial bonanza of TV money and opportunity. As usual, London and Manchester would clean up, the rich would get richer, and the hopes of the small, overlooked, multicultural city would sink. But Leicester started to win. They stayed up; and in the new season they kept on winning. Favorites for relegation, rank outsiders as potential champions (their 5000 -- 1 odds were the longest in the world for any major sporting event), their entire squad had been assembled for less than the cost of a single player for Manchester City. Still, they beat Manchester City and Liverpool, Tottenham and Chelsea: the most incredible cast of written-offs,...

Merchant Vessels of the United States

Número de Páginas: 1176

From 1894/95-1935/36, pt.6 of each volume is issued separately, with titles, 1894/95-1902/03: Code list of merchant vessels of the United States; 1903/04-1935/36: Seagoing vessels of the United States.

Wordbook of Australian Idiom - Aussie Slang

Autor: Kerrin P. Rowe

Número de Páginas: 178

A direct and informative Wordbook of Idiom and Slang which is directed at giving explanation to the meaning of and the correct usage of the Australian English language. There are some words used that may offend as they have converse meanings to other English Speaking countries; however, there is no intent to offend or malign or denigrate anybody. This book is designed to be informative, educational, and full of humor and will give the reader insight to a unique and colorful language.

5000-1: The Leicester City Story 5000-1: The Leicester City Story

Autor: Rob Tanner

Número de Páginas: 316

THE INCREDIBLE AS-IT-HAPPENED STORY OF LEICESTER CITY'S MARCH TO PREMIER LEAGUE VICTORY In August 2015 bookmakers priced Leicester at 5000-1 to win the Premier League – the same odds as Elvis being found alive. On 2 May 2016, the impossible happened – Leicester won, to ecstatic celebrations in the city and around the world. Relive this remarkable season with Rob Tanner, the Leicester Mercury 's chief football writer, from the great escape of 2015 to the curtain-closer at Stamford Bridge, via Ulloa's last-gasp winner at Norwich and Vardy's stunning volley against Liverpool. Detailing the key matches and turning points, Tanner's book tells the inside story of Leicester City's heroic year of triumph – and the players who under Claudio Ranieri's inspired leadership became the most unlikely champions in football history.

Transactions of the Philological Society

Autor: Philological Society (london)

Número de Páginas: 458

Transactions of the Philological Society

Autor: Philological Society (great Britain)

Número de Páginas: 460

List of members included in most vols.

A Dictionary of Reduplicated Words in the English Language

Autor: Henry Benjamin Wheatley

Número de Páginas: 124

transactions of the philological society

Número de Páginas: 464

The Runaround

Autor: Abhishek Deshmane

Número de Páginas: 232

When three ordinary guys, three not so ordinary guys, a traffic policeman and a pregnant lady become part of a botched drug deal, they must face off against a gang of professional killers and their mastermind boss to survive the night. This band of misfits must choose between the desperation of survival and what’s right. What may save their lives, will change their characters forever; what may be the right thing to do, will surely kill them all. What happens next? Well, you’ll have to ‘Runaround’ a bit to figure that out, won’t you now?

Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc

Número de Páginas: 674

Leicester City, 5000 tegen 1

Autor: Rob Tanner

Número de Páginas: 156

LEICESTER CITY, 5000 TEGEN 1 Een verhaal over hoop, vertrouwen en over een nieuwe kampioen van Engeland. Een jaar geleden wisten ze ternauwernood degradatie af te wenden en alle kenners wisten het zeker: Leicester City is in voetbalseizoen 2015/2016 de zwakste schakel in de Premier League. Niets bleek minder waar en op maandag 2 mei 2016 schreef de ploeg uit Leicester geschiedenis door kampioen van de Premier League te worden. Het kampioenschap van Leicester City is een sportsprookje dat zo zeldzaam is, dat de 'bookies' aan het begin van de competitie 5000:1 gaven voor een gok op het kampioenschap van dit team. Ter vergelijking: de kans dat Bono de nieuwe paus zou worden was 1000:1 en zelfs de kans dat Kim Kardashian voor 2020 president van de VS zou worden was volgens hen nog veel waarschijnlijker: 2000 tegen 1. Dit boek neemt je stap voor stap mee door het grootste sportsprookje ooit verteld. Met behulp van de reacties van fans, statistische analyse en informatie van binnenuit lees je hoe Leicester erin is geslaagd om kampioen van Engeland te worden. Het verhaal begint met Leicesters terugkeer naar de Premier League in april 2014. Vanaf die dag wordt je meegenomen door het...

On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries

Autor: Richard Chenevix Trench

Número de Páginas: 544

The World of Football According to Athletico Mince

Autor: Bob Mortimer & Andy Dawson

Número de Páginas: 239

For the first book inspired by their wildly popular podcast, Bob Mortimer and Andy Dawson considered producing an authoritative guide to the past, present and future world of football. But, as in the podcast, they got a bit side-tracked - as well as bringing you some (more or less) completely genuine football facts, Bob and Andy speculate about the lifestyle of baked bean-loving, yellow snake-owning ex-England boss Steve McClaren, and investigate the 'Gangs of the EPL', where football meets infantile bullying. There's also input from the Secret Soccer Superstar - a former player who lifts the lid on what it's really like to be a top, top pro - and the lyrics from some of Bob's most memorable Scottish songs, so that you can sing them to your children, elderly relatives or, indeed, yourself, should you need to be soothed after learning about Robson Green's Extreme Bangers. In summary, it's a bit of a mess - but - it's a beautiful, glorious, hilarious mess... and if you're not reduced to at least one convulsion while reading it, Bob and Andy are going to be very disappointed with you. In fact, they might come round to your house and force you to KISS THE ALDERMAN. 'If you like...

English Dialect Society

Número de Páginas: 354

Fantasy Premier League

Autor: Toby Margetts

Número de Páginas: 202

Fantasy Premier League has become more than a game. It's a phenomenon. With well over 6,000,000 players signing up for the 2019/20 season and around 24 septillion possible lineups, there are untold subtleties that separate 99% of players from the elite 1% who consistently occupy the top of the overall rankings, not to mention taking home the prize pots and bragging rights at the end of each season.This book will show you how to join that 1%. FPL veterans and perennial top 1% finishers Toby and Gianni share everything they've learned from over 10 years of FPL graft - from pre-season scouting to the final sprint, unveiling the patterns and habits that only the best exhibit. It's an invaluable manual of data, managerial nous and the all-too-familiar learnings of despair and heartbreak, neatly packaged up to power your team to the top. Armed with this unprecedented knowledge and know-how, you'll have an enormous edge over anyone you come up against. This book is not a guide to how to play Fantasy Premier League - it's how to win.

Hail, Claudio!

Autor: Gabriele Marcotti , Alberto Polverosi

Número de Páginas: 349

Leicester City's Premier League victory was the 5,000-1 triumph that delighted the world. But how did Claudio Ranieri pull off one of the greatest achievements in sport? This is the inside story of the rise and rise of the butcher’s son from Rome, whose hard work, passion for the game and ability to learn from his mistakes have earned him the respect of players, fans and owners worldwide. Gabriele Marcotti and Alberto Polverosi have known Claudio Ranieri since his early days as a professional footballer. They have closely followed his successes and his failures as he navigated the often topsy-turvy world of football and developed as a player and manager. Hail, Claudio! takes an in-depth look into what sets Ranieri apart as a manager, into precisely how the Premier League was won, and what went wrong following that golden season.