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Leicester City football books and dvds and a virtual aerial tour of the Walkers Stadium. Great books about current and former Leicester City players and Leicester City managers and the history of Leicester City football club.
Top recommended books include Leicester 'til We Die, Tales from the Boot Camps, Martin O'Neill: The Biography plus many more in the Leicester City online bookshop
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Leicester 'til We Die
There's one in Half Moon Bay, California. There's another one in Oakland, and one in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
They dish out justice in the courts on the one in Philadelphia; the one in San Francisco s-bends itself into the steepest road in town.
But there's only one real Filbert Street: that half-comical collision of little and large stands in a warren of back-to-back, two-up, two-downs on the edge of Leicester city centre.
Like Roker Park, the Baseball Ground, Ayresome Park and the Dell before it, Filbert Street has lost its place in that evocative roll-call of English football grounds.
It may seem odd to mourn: it was a source of ridicule to away supporters and guilty embarrassment to Leicester City Fans.
"A fantastic stand, an adequate stand, and the other two stands are Vauxhall Conference," was Martin O'Neill's withering but accurate assessment of Filbert Street, joking he would lead new signings out backwards from the Carling Stand so they couldn't see the rest of the ground before they signed.
Yes it was home. And like home, you can't wait to leave when you're stuck there, but you muss it like hell the moment you go.
We first hit upon the idea of chronicling the final season at Filbert Street in 1997 when whispers of a move could be heard under all the talk of redeveloping the East and North stands. It proved to be a long wait before we could start. Finally, work did begin on a new stadium and the Leicester Mercury joined forces with Leicester City to document the end of a Leicestershire landmark.
For a newspaper that works like any other, with an eye on the clock and rolling deadlines, this was a new move: a slow-burning assignment with 10 months of work culminating in one single result.
Leicester 'Til We Die is a love letter to Filbert Street that came close to being a Dear John note, as City plummeted to the foot of the table. It's not the whole story of the final disastrous season, nor is it the definitive portrait of life on the terraces or behind the scenes of the club. But we think it captures the flavour of Filbert Street, the ground that has been leicester's centre of gravity for 111 years.
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Tales from the Boot Camps
Away from the glamour and wall-to-wall coverage of the Premiership lies the reality, for the majority of fans and players, of British football. From Claridge's early days with non-league Weymouth, to the Premiership with Leicester, and back to First-Division Portsmouth, Tales from the Boot Camps spans the lows of irregular salary payments and training sessions on dog-fouled carparks at Aldershot, and the highs of the last-minute win in a First Division play-off at Wembley, and on to the Premiership. Controversial, itinerant, but popular wherever he has played, Claridge also talks frankly about his addiction to gambling. Part biography, part autobiography, it is full of insight and dry wit, a unique portrait of British football.
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Martin O'Neill: The Biography
O'Neill is one of the most successful and intriguing of the new manager/coaches to emerge from British football. This biography deals with every aspect of O'Neill's life and remarkable career from his early days as a player in Northern Ireland and joining the tyrannical Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest. It chronicles his managerial triumphs from non-league Grantham Town, and Wycombe Wanderers, to Norwich City and Leicester City, then on to Celtic. The author offers an insight into the beliefs, the lifestyle, the ambitions, the hopes and the fears of a private and complex man. He examines the effect sectarianism had on O'Neill's formative years - O'Neill was the first Roman Catholic captain of Northern Ireland and produced unprecedented success at the 1982 World Cup finals in Spain. But his defining career moment came before Nottingham Forest's first European Cup final when he was dropped by Clough. The impact that had on the young Martin O'Neill formed his philosophy in dealing with players in years to come. This book aims to get to grips with one of the most fascinating individuals in football.
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