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    From the history of Irish sports to biographies of international athletics superstars, these books in our sports collection make for excellent reading. Whether you’re passionate about football, rugby, or any other sport, these books bring the drama, dedication, and triumphs of the sports world to life. Find your next great sports read at Chapters Bookstore!

    Constable Nick: Match of the Day Football Almanac [2024] hardback

    €20.99

    Do you remember the Battle of Old Trafford? Shearer's dream debut hat trick? Or how many goals Haaland scored in his first Premier League season? Hope, heartbreak and victory, over...

    of the Day Magazine Match: Match of the Day Annual 2025 [2024] hardback

    €11.99

    What a save!The MOTD annual returns, bursting with fun football trivia, games, puzzles, cartoons and much, much more...Packed with fun football trivia, quizzes, games, puzzles, top 10s, cartoons and more,...

    Ceallachain Sean & O: The Liam MacCarthy Cup [2010] paperback

    €5.99 – €12.99

    First awarded in 1923, Sean Og O Ceallachain and Owen McCann survey every decade since then, recalling many of the most famous All-Ireland hurling finals:* The thunder and lightning final...

    Scott Douglas: Runner's World Complete Guide To Minimalism And Barefoot Running [2013] paperback

    €1.99

    Proponents of running either barefoot or in minimalist shoes argue that by introducing a thick layer of cushioning and an elevated heel between the foot and the ground, modern running...

    Suzanne Schlosberg: FITNESS FOR DUMMIES 4ED W3 [2010] paperback

    €12.99

    The latest and greatest in getting fit and staying that way! Fitness For Dummies, 4th Edition, provides the latest information and advice for properly shaping, conditioning, and strengthening your body...

    Cait Murphy: A History of American Sports in 100 Objects [2016] hardback

    €14.99 – €29.70

    What artifact best captures the spirit of American sports? The bat Babe Ruth used to hit his allegedly called shot, or the ball on which Pete Rose wrote, I'm sorry...

    Amy Lane: I Can Run [2021] paperback

    €6.99 – €14.27

    I CAN RUN is not a running book for 'runners' - it's the must-have running book for anyone who has ever experienced a moment of defeatism and had the little...

    David Mortimer: Classic Rugby Clangers [2015] paperback

    €6.99 – €11.41

    This hilarious collection of stories taken from over 130 years of rugby history recounts some of the moments their perpetrators would rather forget. A relentlessly high-speed game, rugby is particularly...

    Alan Brazil: There's an Awful Lot of Bubbly in Brazil [2006] hardback

    €4.99 – €27.13

    This is a tale about a boy from the back streets of Glasgow who rose from being a fanatical Celtic fan to leading Scotland's World Cup attack with Kenny Dalglish....

    John D Barrow: Mathletics: 100 Amazing Things You Didn't Know About the World of Sports [2013] paperback

    €4.99

    How can sprinter Usain Bolt break his world record without expending any additional effort? What dates of birth give rise to the best professional athletes? Is it better to have...

    Julie Checkoway: THREE YEAR SWIM CLUB Z1 [2016] paperback

    €2.99

    In 1937 an ordinary school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of under privileged children, most of Japanese ancestry, and trained them to become Olympic swimmers. He...

    Cory Wharton-Malcolm: All You Need Is Rhythm And Grit [2024] paperback

    €21.99

    'Everything Wharton-Malcolm does has the aim of helping people achieve the best version of themselves' Evening Standard'In a world where expectations of others is making people drop out of sport,...

    Troy Deeney: Troy Deeney: Redemption [2021] hardback

    €9.99

    ***'Footie book of the year.' - The SunTROY DEENEY is best known as Watford FC's former captain and a thorn in Arsenal's side. But behind the successful and gritty football...

    Attax Match: Match Attax Annual 2025 [2024] hardback

    €11.99

    Discover everything there is to know about your favourite football heroes in the Official Match Attax Annual 2025! Farshore are the #1 annuals publisher in the UK (Bookscan TCM 2023)...

    The Lance Armstrong Foundation: LiveStrong: Inspirational Stories from Cancer Survivors - From Diagnosis to Treatment and Beyond [2006] paperback

    €4.99

    Since the now-ubiquitous LIVESTRONG wristbands became available in May 2004, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, founded by cancer survivor and cycling champion Lance Armstrong, has raised more than $50 million for...

    Ray Mears: Bushcraft Survival [2006] paperback

    €6.99

    In BUSHCRAFT SURVIVAL Ray Mears travels to some of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses in the world, and experiences first hand the survival techniques of different indigenous cultures. From...

    Ray Mears: Bushcraft Survival [2005] hardback

    €4.99

    In BUSHCRAFT SURVIVAL Ray Mears travels to some of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses in the world, and experiences first hand the survival techniques of different indigenous cultures. From...

    Bobby Robson: Bobby Robson: Farewell but not Goodbye - My Autobiography: The Remarkable Life of a Sporting Legend. [2006] paperback

    €3.99 – €4.99

    Revered in Newcastle and the North-East, Sir Bobby Robson is a man whose fame knows no boundaries and who enjoys phenomenal popularity. His playing days with Fulham and West Brom...

    Alan Ball Mbe: Playing Extra Time [2005] paperback

    €1.99

    Alan Ball always wanted to be the best. Small in stature, red-haired and fiery, Alan was one of the most recognisable players of his generation. Fans on the terraces and...

    John Feinstein: One on One: Behind the Scenes with the Greats in the Game [2012] hardback

    €4.99

    After numerous beloved and bestselling sports books, John Feinstein returns to the subjects of his first ten books, crafting a narrative of the most revealing encounters he's had. Feinstein has...

    David Milsted: The Big Book of Sports Insults: 1001 quips and quotes: 1001 unadmiring quips and quotes [2004] hardback

    €1.99

    The Big Book of Sports Insults begins where responsible comment leaves off. Modelled on the successful format of such seminal works as E-Tales, The Big Book of National Insults, and...

    Hippo! Orange: The Little Book of LeBron James [2024] hardback

    €7.99

    King James, the greatest of all time.Named 'The Chosen One' at just age 17, and with the iconic number 23 set to retire with him at the end of his...

    Hayley Kilgallon: Fifty Years of the LGFA [2024] hardback Unladylike

    €15.99 – €24.95

    The first recorded game of ladies' Gaelic football was played in St James' Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game...

    Howard Webb: The Man in the Middle [2016] hardback

    €9.99 – €28.57

    The long-awaited autobiography of Howard Webb, the man who refereed the World Cup final. Webb's first game as a match official came when he was just 18 and his father's...

    Scally John: Extraordinary GAA People [2024] paperback

    €17.99

    The Gaelic Games has been shaped by great players. Since its inception, special players have made hearts soar with daring moves, acheived sporting glory and created everlasting memories. Now Extraordinary...

    Steve. White: The 50 Greatest Rugby Union Players of All Time [2015] paperback

    €5.99

    Throughout the history of rugby union, a select few players have stood out above the rest.Bringing together 50 of the finest, this book reveals the fearless scrum-halves, tricky wingers, explosive...

    Anon: Tales from the Secret Footballer [2014] paperback

    €1.00 – €5.99

    FOOTBALL'S BIGGEST CHARACTERS TELL IT LIKE IT ISWho is the Secret Footballer? Well he's back and this time his mates speak out too.Players, agents, coaches and managers give you access...

    Wade: How To Think Like A Fish [2024]

    €5.99

    Jeremy Wade has caught an unparalleled array of outsize and outlandish fish from challenging locations all over the world - goliath tigerfish from the Congo, arapaima from the Amazon, 'giant...

    Rob Steen: Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport [2015] paperback

    €5.99

    Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014Spectator sport is living, breathing, non-stop theatre for all.Focusing on spectator sports and their accompanying issues, tracing their origins,...

    Ian Wright: A Life in Football: My Autobiography [2017] paperback

    €3.99 – €5.99

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Wrighty's characteristic honesty means his book is far more engrossing than most bland football memoirs' Sunday TimesIan Wright, Arsenal legend, England striker and TV pundit extraordinaire, is...

    Jon Smith: The Deal [2017] paperback

    €5.99

    'Excellent . . . an in-depth excavation of the murky and mysterious world of football business. Smith's candid and often shocking book reveals the true workings of football business that...

    Florence Griffith Joyner: Running For Dummies [1999] paperback

    €9.99 – €22.84

    Running For Dummies is for everyone with a desire to run. If you're a reforming couch potato, it helps ease you into a healthier lifestyle. If you have Olympic aspirations,...

    Michael Calvin: State of Play [2019] paperback

    €5.99 – €14.27

    'For those of you missing your football fix, anything by Michael Calvin is worth a read - the hugely respected sports journalist writes eloquently about the modern game in page...

    Colin Willcock: ABC OF FISHING Z6 [2016] hardback

    €9.99

    The ABC of Fishing, compiled and edited by the late celebrated sporting journalist Colin Willock, should prove to be the answer to every fisherman's - and would be fisherman's -...

    Neil Duncanson: The Fastest Men on Earth: The Story of the Men's 100 Metre Champions [2011] hardback

    €3.99 – €4.99

    It takes just under 10 seconds to run, but to the winner of Athletics' men's 100 metres goes the accolade of 'The Fastest Man on Earth'. "The Fastest Men on...

    Greg Searle: IF NOT NOW WHEN Z90 [2012] hardback

    €4.99

    Twenty years ago, rower Greg Searle won Gold in the Coxed Pair alongside his brother Jonny, at the Barcelona Olympic Games. At the age of 20, he received an MBE,...

    John Jeremiah Sullivan: Blood Horses [2015] paperback

    €4.99

    One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came...

    Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden, and the Golden Age of Boxing [2011] paperback

    €5.99

    Gangsters have been around boxing for ever. When boxing took hold in Madison Square Garden just after the First World War, a new wave of criminals moved in: the Mob....

    Ned Kelly: Manchester United [2003] hardback

    €9.99 – €25.71

    Manchester United FC is, without doubt, the world?s most famous football club, as well as one of the richest and the most successful. To the public and to the millions...

    George Connelly: Celtic's Lost Legend [2019] paperback

    €5.99 – €14.27

    Hailed as the greatest Scottish talent of his generation, George Connelly made 254 appearances for Celtic and played in the Scotland team that qualified for the 1974 World Cup Finals....

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