This edited collection brings together the latest research into the range of sports known as football.
With contributions by a large number of the leading international researchers in the field, the book aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice in football, and to raise the awareness of the value of a scientific approach to the various football codes.
The book contains nearly seventy papers, examining aspects ranging from match analysis and medical aspects of football to metabolism and nutrition, psychology and behaviour, and management and...

Ever since the inaugural Life of Reilly column appeared in the Drogheda Independent's Drogheda Weekend Extra (now the Drogheda Weekend) on 31 January 2003, life has changed utterly in 'Drawda'.
A lifetime resident, local historian and author Tom Reilly has created a veritable institution with his weekly satirical columns.
Reilly insists that his sideways view of the world proves that everybody in the town is completely screwed up, not just him.
"The man's a fool." - Cllr Paul Bell
This selection of over 100 previously published columns has been carefully chosen for inclusion...

'The City That Never Sleeps', is the setting for the real life drama of two New York detectives, Perino and Coyle. Although from different ethnic backgrounds they are an inseparable team. The mayor is coming up for election and the word on the street is that the DA's job is on the line because of the escalating crime rate in the 'Big Apple'. The trauma and effect on their personal lives is taking its toll. An unsolved gang land killing only adds to their woes but things get worse as the streets of New York are terrorized by a serial killer whose macabre trail of mutilated black women has a...

'The City That Never Sleeps', is the setting for the real life drama of two New York detectives, Perino and Coyle. Although from different ethnic backgrounds they are an inseparable team. The mayor is coming up for election and th

The perfect house conceals the perfect crime. Finally putting an end to their days as slaves in the hustle and bustle of the Big apple, Dr Milton Judd and his wife, Monique, pack up their two kids and all their possessions to take up a once in a life time opportunity as chief of staff of the newly built, Nelson Memorial Hospital in the little town of Orlando Florida. James Grant, a multi billionaire businessman built the hospital in memory of his best friend Greg Neilson who died unexpectedly in the prime of his life. Grant convinces Judd he is the man for the job and at last he can truly...

The perfect house conceals the perfect crime. Finally putting an end to their days as slaves in the hustle and bustle of the Big apple, Dr Milton Judd and his wife, Monique, pack up their two kids and all their possessions to take up a once in a life time opportunity as chief of staff of the newly built, Nelson Memorial Hospital in the little town of Orlando Florida. James Grant, a multi billionaire businessman built the hospital in memory of his best friend Greg Neilson who died unexpectedly in the prime of his life. Grant convinces Judd he is the man for the job and at last he can truly...

Helen Baker, a young vivacious divorcee is brutally murdered. Ted, the ex husband, a Vietnam War hero, is cohabiting with a beautiful young air hostess nine years his junior. There is bad blood between father and son, Chris, who's life has been torn apart by the embarrassing divorce and the unhappiness and insecurity of his beloved mother. Baker is going through a tough time, with his ex wife forever demanding more alimony and Trish Taylor his defacto threatening to leave him if he doesn't do something about it. He has the perfect motive! The Forensic and circumstantial evidence is...

Helen Baker, a young vivacious divorcee is brutally murdered. Ted, the ex husband, a Vietnam War hero, is cohabiting with a beautiful young air hostess nine years his junior. There is bad blood between father and son, Chris, who's life has been torn apart by the embarrassing divorce and the unhappiness and insecurity of his beloved mother. Baker is going through a tough time, with his ex wife forever demanding more alimony and Trish Taylor his defacto threatening to leave him if he doesn't do something about it. He has the perfect motive! The Forensic and circumstantial evidence is...