Living on the Volcano: The Secrets of Surviving as a Football Manager - Couverture rigide

Calvin, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1780893272 ISBN 13 : 9781780893273

Editeur : Century, 2015

Synopsis

A close look at the life of football managers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Calvin, one of the UK’s most accomplished sportswriters, has worked in more than eighty countries, covering every major sporting event, including seven summer Olympic Games and six World Cup finals. He was named Sports Writer of the Year for his despatches as a crew member in a round-the-world yacht race and has twice been named Sports Reporter of the Year.

He is a bestselling author, whose book The Nowhere Men won the Times Sports Book of the Year prize in 2014. He became the first author to receive the award in successive years, when Proud, his collaboration with former Wales and British Lions rugby captain Gareth Thomas, was named Sports Book of the Year in 2015.

In the same year the second book of his football trilogy, Living On The Volcano, was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize. No Nonsense, his collaboration with Joey Barton, was nominated for the award in 2016.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

This is a book about football managers, live and uncut. The average lifespan of a manager in the Championship is eight months. New records for volatility are set every season.


What makes these men tick? They are familiar figures, who rarely offer anything more than a glimpse into their personal and professional lives. Who are they? What shapes them? How and why do they do their job? Award-winning writer Michael Calvin provides the answers.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

Award winning author Mike Calvin is back with his new book exposing the lives of football managers.


He goes into lower league pressing rooms and the inner sanctums of the Premier League. He coaxes the humanity out of household names like Brendan Rodgers, Roberto Martinez, Alan Pardew and Mark Hughes. He looks beyond the brand names, and identifies rising stars, like Sean Dyche, Garry Monk, Shaun Derry, Gareth Ainsworth, Karl Robinson and Eddie Howe.

This is a unique insight into a trade where managers require ruthlessness and empathy, idealism and cunning. Never before have the secrets and myths of football management been so laid bare.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Century
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1780893272
• ISBN 13: 9781780893273
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Century Italia S.r.l.; 3.91E+11; info@century-italia.com; ; Strada Tor Tre Ponti, 68; Latina; 4100; Italie