Diamonds in the Rough – Non-League Football's Biggest Success Stories

Diamonds in the Rough – Non-League Football's Biggest Success StoriesDiamonds in the Rough explores the fairy tale phenomenon of footballers who rose from the non league to make their mark at the game's top levels. For all the glitz and glamour of the Premier League and EFL, they are hugely indebted to non league football for the role it has played and continues to play in springboarding so many players to success. The book relives the rise of 100 players from the humble non league who made it to the big time of top

a look at the team's progress through the qualification phase with further information about star players and coaches

A look at the history of Leeds United over the past 100 years told through the eyes of the 36 men who have managed the club since formation in 1919

a period seen by many as the club's lowest ebb after The Owls suffered relegation from Division Two and needed a final-day victory to avoid relegation to Division Four

A detailed who's who which looks at the records of 4

Author Andy Mitten has tracked down eleven of the stars from those Premier League and Champions League winning teams to open the door to both the dressing room and the boardroom at Old Trafford as the club cemented its status as the dominant force in English football

Also includes team photographs and basic player information for the 2nd Division

Size: 161mm x 242mm – 208 pages

At the start of the decade

a lifelong fan of the Hoops who weaves together memories of five decades following the club in with his reports of the games from this season

A reissue of this book first published in 1998 which celebrates the careers of the Manchester United players who died in the 1958 Munich Air Disaster

This is nothing less than the definitive portrait of a true icon of modern football

psychology and mental health in cricket to produce a fascinating study of the sport's toughest players of all time