Scottish Sporting Legends Scottish Sporting Legends

Scottish Sporting Legends

    • £2.99
    • £2.99

Publisher Description

Scotland may not have won a World Cup (yet!), but many of the country’s sportsmen and women are revered as global legends, including Olympic and US Open champion Andy Murray and winner of six Olympic gold medals, Sir Chris Hoy. In football, the likes of Denis Law, ‘Slim’ Jim Baxter and Jimmy ‘Jinky’ Johnstone would not have looked out of place in the canary yellow of Brazil, while managers Sir Matt Busby, Bill Shankly and Jock Stein have become part of football folklore, as has Sir Alex Ferguson in more recent times.

Amazingly, Scots have reached the top in just about every major sport: Jim Clark and Sir Jackie Stewart in Formula One; Andy Murray in tennis; Ken Buchanan and Benny Lynch in the boxing ring; Chris Hoy in cycling; sprinters Allan Wells and Eric Liddell on the Olympic track; and, as befits a nation renowned as ‘the home of golf’, Sandy Lyle was recognised as the greatest player on the planet upon winning the Masters in 1988.

Scottish sport is the richest of tapestries and in Scottish Sporting Legends the cream of the crop are entertainingly profiled in a revealing collection of pen portraits of stars past and present.

GENRE
Sports & Outdoors
RELEASED
2011
1 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Mainstream Publishing
SIZE
1.7
MB
The Telegraph Book of Champions The Telegraph Book of Champions
2014
Triumph and Tragedy Triumph and Tragedy
2011
Always Believe Always Believe
2021
The Official Celtic Opus – eBook Edition The Official Celtic Opus – eBook Edition
2010
100 Irish Rugby Greats 100 Irish Rugby Greats
2011
Legends of Irish Rugby Legends of Irish Rugby
2012
A Little History of Music A Little History of Music
2023
The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music
2018
Performing Music in the Age of Recording Performing Music in the Age of Recording
2004
Manly Piety in Its Spirit Manly Piety in Its Spirit
2023
Manly Piety in its Realizations Manly Piety in its Realizations
2023
Manly Piety in Its Principles Manly Piety in Its Principles
2023