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The Match Dart Mindset explains simple, effective mental strategies and focusing techniques used by expert players, so you can thrive in matches regardless of how long you’ve been playing, or the level you compete at. Pressure-proofing your mindset means more you-on-a-good-day in matches, not just in practice. You’ll learn how to play with relaxed focus and enjoy the game and we all know a happy darts player is a winning darts player. A robust mental game is essential in competitive darts. Unmanaged thoughts and emotions lead to inconsistency.

Brought to you by Penguin. At the age of 16, a boy amongst men, Andy Farrell made his first-team debut for Wigan Warriors – and became a father for the first time. At 18, he won his first senior international cap. At 21, he won his first Man of Steel Award for the Super League player of the...

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY LIKE NO OTHER: SIR ALEX REFLECTS ON HIS RECORD-BREAKING CAREER AT ABERDEEN AND MANCHESTER UNITED 'Sometimes defeats are the best outcomes. To react to adversity is a quality. Even in your lowest periods you are showing strength . . .' For over two decades Sir Alex Ferguson...

For more than a decade, the Old Northamptonians 3rd XV fought, laughed, stumbled, and triumphed their way through the beating heart of Northampton rugby. What began as a scratch side on the brink of collapse became a team that defined a club — and a community. In this warm, honest, and often hilarious memoir, Stuart MacDonald charts the unlikely rise of the self-proclaimed best 3rd XV in the UK. From chaotic away days and lastminute callups to league titles, unforgettable characters, and the quiet heroism of simply turning up, this is grassroots rugby in all its messy, brilliant glory.

Pat Nevin never wanted to be a professional footballer. His future was clear, he'd become a teacher like his brothers. There was only one problem with this - Pat was far too good to avoid attention. Raised in Glasgow's East End, Pat loved the game, playing for hours and obsessively following Celtic. But as he grew up, he also loved Joy Division, wearing his Indie 'gloom boom' coat and going on marches - hardly typical footballer behaviour!

Lower your scores, increase enjoyment. Are you struggling to take your golf game to the next level? Learn the philosophy that has helped thousands of players worldwide lower their scores and improve their relationship with golf. Swing tips come and go, but foundational golf skills last forever.

Close the Gap to Lower Scores. The difference between your best and worst rounds isn't your swing —it's your mentality. Yet the basics of golf psychology are often misunderstood, leading to needless mistakes, higher scores, and inconsistent play. Just as you can’t build a reliable swing with a bad grip or poor alignment, you can’t build a reliable game on a warped perspective. You might pull off good shots, even good rounds, but faulty technique always catches up to you. The same is true mentally.

Is it inevitable that our running performance slides as we get into our forties and beyond? Or are there things we can do to slow or even pause the decline, master our midlife and use experience as a superpower and become an ageless ace?

For the very first time, and straight from the horse's mouth, a top manager's intriguing insights into the daily trials and tribulations, the joyous peaks and soul-destroying troughs of life as a football 'gaffer'. Ever wondered how a transfer deal is done? What a manager says during his pre-match team-talk? What he screams from the technical area? What goes on in training sessions, and on those long away trips? How a manager carefully builds a team, and what he does when the planning is disrupted by injuries?

‘A wonderful overview of tactical development in European football’ Matthew Syed, The Times ‘A fascinating assessment of football in 2019’ Observer An insightful, comprehensive and always entertaining appreciation of how European football has developed over the last three decades by the...

In Inverting the Pyramid, Jonathan Wilson pulls apart the finer details of the world's game, tracing the global history of tactics, from modern pioneers right back to the beginning when chaos reigned. Along the way, he looks at the lives of great players and thinkers who shaped the sport and probes why the English, in particular, have 'proved themselves unwilling to grapple with the abstract'.

Football management is like being a potato—you're never too far from the sack and everyone is constantly chipping away at you. It's not for the faint-hearted and unless you've got skin as thick as rhino and a wicked sense of humour, you've no chance of surviving. Ian Holloway—aka 'Ollie'—has all the above and more besides. He's been there, seen it and done it in his 40 years as player and manager. In the joyful How to Be a Football Manager, Holloway weaves a fantastically rich tapestry of hilarious anecdotes to reveal what being the boss is really like. 

Wicked Smart Golf is NOT just a mental game book. This audiobook delivers proven strategies to improve your game with actionable advice on course management, short game, and effective practice habits. Written by a +2 handicap & mental golf coach, this book introduces a five-pillar system designed to help you play smarter and shoot lower scores.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND A FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 The insider account of the data revolution that has swept through the modern football world written by one of its key architects, Ian Graham. Between 2012 and 2023, Ian...

'Excellent' INDEPENDENT 'A clear-eyed biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'The extraordinary journey of Australia's most important and successful coach, perfectly captured by a writer who knows the immensity of what Ange has accomplished and stands to achieve' GERARD WHATELEY, SPORTS BROADCASTER 'I love...

King Power Stadium, countdown to kick off. Out on the pitch a lone brass player sounds the haunting Post Horn Gallop, for 80 years the home players' entrance tune. Spines tingle. Air is gulped into opposition lungs. Game time, time to begin the chase. Burning fox eyes peer down from between the...

For the first time, Hall of Fame NBA basketball coach Larry Brown details his most memorable coaching moments, his relationships with all-star players, and the deep love of the game that drove his remarkable career. Hall of Fame NBA basketball coach Larry Brown is the only coach to ever win both...

From rock bottom to national champions—this is the blueprint behind Dan Hurley’s UConn resurgence. The UConn men’s basketball program had won three national championships in a span of fifteen years, its most recent just four years earlier. But by 2018, the program was in shambles. The...

In Every Moment Matters, renowned coach educator John O'Sullivan has collected hundreds of interviews with top coaches, sport scientists, psychologists, and athletes and distilled them into a blueprint for becoming a more effective and inspiring leader. Great coaches realize something that others do not: Every moment matters!  

How to Win: Talent Alone Is Not Enough is much more than the story of a tournament. It is the distillation of a philosophy of leadership developed during a lifetime in high-performance environments, from the rugby field to the boardroom. Tapping in to his experience of winning the 2003 World Cup, being a part of the leadership team that delivered Olympic Success in 2012 and lessons drawn from Japan 2019, the author delivers a go-to manual in how to improve both individual and team performance in order to reach the pinnacle in sport and in business.