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Title: Boleyn Boy: My Autobiography

Author: Mark Noble

Narrator: Luke Francis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Release date: December 15, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2

Genres: Sports

Publisher's Summary:

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton Park and became ‘Mr West Ham’: a one-club man who lived the dream. A modern footballing legend, Mark Noble is the embodiment of what it means to be a Hammer, pouring his heart and soul into the club he supported as a boy. Born and raised in Canning Town, Mark joined the West Ham youth squad in 2000 and made his senior-team debut aged just 17. Now, after over 20 years, with a wealth of memories and more than 500 appearances for his boyhood club under his belt, Mark finally looks back at his remarkable career, reflecting on his journey from boot boy to club captain, bossing the midfield, scoring pressure penalties and becoming an inspirational figurehead on and off the pitch. This is the story of a brilliant footballer, a genuine ambassador and a local legend. This is the unforgettable autobiography of Mark Noble.

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Title: The Senior: My Amazing Year as a 59-Year-Old College Football Linebacker

Author: Mike Flynt

Narrator: Guy Branche, James Donaldson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Release date: December 13, 2022

Genres: Sports

Publisher's Summary:

It's Never Too Late to Tackle Your Dreams! Mike Flynt was swapping stories with some old football buddies when he brought up the biggest regret of his life: getting kicked off the college team before his senior year. So, one of his pals said, 'Why not do something about it?' Most 59-year-olds would have laughed. Flynt's only concern was his eligibility. He not only returned to college football, but actually made the team at his alma mater - Sul Ross State, an NCAA division III school. His remarkable story begins with a tough upbringing by a violent father who trained him to fight at every opportunity. His fighting habit took him in and out of jail several times, until a faith conversion turned his life around on the very day he was contemplating suicide. Mike Flynt has much to offer others, not only through his story, but through his belief that it’s never too late for God to heal your heart and fulfill your dreams. Foreword by NBA Superstar LeBron James.

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Title: Ten Hag: The Biography

Author: Maarten Meijer

Narrator: John Hastings

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2022

Genres: Sports

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Good is not good enough. You have to be even better - Erik ten Hag Who is Erik ten Hag? With an air of unperturbability, he ignores critics, follows his own methods and relentlessly pursues perfection on the pitch. His uncanny ability to analyse and solve problems - the 'process' as Ten Hag calls it - has unfailingly led to breakthrough. There is no magic. There is only intelligence at work, personal devotion to players and near-obsessive attention to detail. At Ajax, Ten Hag brooked no dissent and moulded his team into a smoothly operating unit of attack. His team enjoyed an astonishing run, winning three league cups in a row and reaching the Champions League semi-finals for the first time in a quarter of a century. Along the way, they produced some of the brightest and most entertaining football seen in Europe for years. Maarten Meijer's definitive biography follows Erik ten Hag, from his upbringing in the Dutch countryside to his domestic triumphs and European victories. Meijer's book is the ultimate guide to the man with the momentous task of ending a decade of disappointment at Manchester United, and beginning a new era of great and winning football. ©2022 Maarten Meijer (P)2022 Penguin Audio

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Title: Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World

Author: Harry Thompson

Narrator: Glen Mccready

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Release date: November 30, 2022

Genres: Sports

Publisher's Summary:

It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Except…that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, cunning Bajan drug dealers, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiotic Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus and whole armies of pitch-invading penguins, you quickly arrive at a lot more than you bargained for. Harry Thompson's hilarious book tells the story of one of those great madcap enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.

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Title: [Spanish] - El último Maradona: Cuando a Diego le cortaron las piernas

Author: Andrés Burgo, Alejandro Wall

Narrator: Hernán Chiozza

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Release date: November 21, 2022

Genres: Sports

Publisher's Summary:

El último Maradona desvela con lujo de detalles la trama secreta de una de las grandes pesadillas de la historia del fútbol argentino. Diego Armando Maradona quiere jugar el Mundial 94. Sueña con volver a ser el del 86, pero está completamente fuera de forma. Alguien le presenta a Daniel Cerrini, un fisicoculturista que nada tiene que ver con el fútbol. Diego lo contrata para que se encargue de su puesta a punto. Los resultados son, o parecen ser, sorprendentes. Maradona está en plena forma física y futbolística. El médico de la selección, sin embargo, está preocupado. Nadie le ha dicho qué clase de medicamentos está tomando El Diez. Argentina tiene un arranque espectacular en el Mundial. Maradona es la gran figura del equipo. Después del triunfo ante Nigeria, una mujer vestida de enfermera lo pasa a buscar al centro del campo. Diego ha sido sorteado para el control antidoping. En el palco, Julio Humberto Grondona le dice al dirigente Eduardo Deluca que ahora hay que rezar. Grondona deberá optar entre dos lealtades: o respalda a su jugador fetiche o cierra filas con el poder de la FIFA.

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Title: Paul Davis: Arsenal and After

Author: Paul Davis

Narrator: Gary Macdonald

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Release date: November 17, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Sports

Publisher's Summary:

Paul Davis's story takes us on a journey through almost 50 years at the very top in football: a leading player's take on an extraordinary and memorable period in Arsenal's history, during which the club and football changed radically and forever around him. Davis won titles and cups with Arsenal but, to do so, had to battle against career-threatening injuries and to handle the frustrations and injustices of the worst kinds of club and dressing room politics. His subsequent experiences as a coach and as a coach-developer have been just as challenging, just as emotionally charged, and just as significant. It's a life story worth the telling, that's for sure. Paul Davis: Arsenal And Afteroffers more than just a fascinating football story. Paul's mum, Ruby, arrived in England from Jamaica in the late 1950s, as part of the Windrush generation. She brought up Paul and his sister, Sandra, on her own, on a council estate in Stockwell, South London. Much of the Davis family history was – and still is – a mystery to Paul, who never knew or knew anything about his father. He was already a senior player at Arsenal before he discovered he had siblings: the three children Ruby had left behind in Kingston when she'd struck out for a new life in England, thirty years before. As a teenager, Davis was often the only black player wearing Arsenal colours. As often as not, he'd be the only black player on the pitch. With that came challenges: racism in football and beyond in the early 1980s was undiluted and unapologetic. The fight for recognition – for opportunity and for change – has been part of the Davis story ever since. His own emotional experiences are the lens through which he now looks back on everything he's achieved as a player, as a coach and as an educator.

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Title: The Rodfather: Inside the Beautiful (Ugly, Ridiculous, Hilarious) Game

Author: Paul Howard, Roddy Collins

Narrator: Roddy Collins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Release date: November 17, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Sports

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Roddy Collins is a football man - now in the sixth decade of a career as a player (at sixteen clubs), manager (twelve clubs) and commentator. And he is a funny man: an unequalled raconteur with a sharp eye for the absurdities of the professional game and spectacular recall. He has made friends wherever he has gone, along with some high-quality enemies. When John Delaney said he could get Roddy a job if he'd just stop criticising him, Roddy replied that he'd 'rather dig holes in the road'. Now, with the brilliant Paul Howard, Roddy puts it all down on paper for the first time - the adventures, the rows and the craic - in what will be not only one of the funniest but one of the most eye-opening books ever written about professional football. © Roddy Collins & Paul Howard 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: If These Walls Could Talk: Stories From the New York Mets Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box

Author: Mike Puma

Narrator: Barry Abrams

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Release date: November 15, 2022

Genres: Sports

Publisher's Summary:

Mike Puma of the New York Post provides insight into the team's inner sanctum as only he can The New York Mets are one of the most historic teams in Major League Baseball, with superstars over the years including Jacob deGrom, Mike Piazza, David Wright, and Tom Seaver. Aided by dozens of new, exclusive interviews, listeners will gain the perspective of players, coaches, and personnel from Mets history in moments of greatness as well as defeat, making for a keepsake no fan will want to miss. Few fan bases display as much rabid devotion to their team as the New York Mets', win or lose. That spirit is celebrated in this colorful collection of stories about the Lovable Losers.

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Title: Funky: My Defiant Path Through the Wild World of Combat Sports

Author: Ben Askren

Narrator: Ben Askren

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Release date: November 15, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Sports

Publisher's Summary:

One of the most dominant college wrestlers in history, Ben Askren became a folk hero during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, before going on to become a multiple time MMA champion and one of the sport's biggest stars. Here, in Funky, this record-breaking wrestler and polarizing UFC fighter shares how he came to dominate opponents while blazing a trail through competitors in unprecedented ways. Not blessed with natural athleticism, he revolutionized folkstyle wrestling by innovating his own technique, which earned him the famous nickname, 'Funky.' What ensued was an improbable takeover of combat sports by a firebrand who defied tradition, becoming the University of Missouri's first ever national champion while twice winning the prestigious Dan Hodge trophy. Now, Askren opens up about how he bucked convention, how he used his wrestling base to seize the world of cage-fighting, and how he eventually forced UFC president Dana White to end their decade-long public feud via a historic trade. Love him or hate him, win or lose, Ben Askren showed what determination means by staying true to one of his earliest revelations on the mats: 'I was never going to let anybody outwork me.'

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Title: Head On: A Memoir

Author: Larry Csonka

Narrator: Phil Thron

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Release date: November 15, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2

Genres: Sports

Publisher's Summary:

Larry Csonka ran the football with audacity and authority. He lived his off-the-field life with equal abandon. As part of the NFL's 100th Anniversary, he and his undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins teammates were named the best team in NFL history. In Head On, Csonka shares how they achieved their legendary Perfect Season. From quitting football at a young age, to his often-combative relationship with Coach Don Shula, to brazen exploits with his NFL pals, Csonka narrates a life that is colorful, unbridled, and thrilling. Csonka found himself hanging out with Burt Reynolds, Dick Butkus, Lee Majors, Joe Namath, and Elvis Presley during his football years. But his moments outside the spotlight reveal the most about this larger-than-life figure—raising critters and a little hell in his formative years on an Ohio dirt farm, early run-ins with the law, confronting thieves with a sawed-off shotgun, taking sniper fire on a USO tour of Vietnam, and being adrift at night on the Bering Sea with gale-force winds raging. Csonka's Head On is a captivating account of grit, grace, and gumption told by an iconic Hall of Famer who continues to gain ground—figuratively, literally, and unapologetically—every day.