Jeff Connor was born in Manchester and was educated at Bury Grammar School where his studies lost out to sport at the age of 15. A retired ruby player at both codes of union and league he is also a former champion professional hill runner, a keen skier and a five-days-a-week gym addict. He is divorced, lives in Edinburgh and is the rugby correspondent for Scotland »s leading Sunday newspaper, Scotland on Sunday.His previous books include « Wide Eyed and Legless: Inside the Tour de France » and « Creagh Dhu Climber » (short listed for the Boardman/Tasker and Banff Mountain Festival prizes for mountain literature in 1999/2000).
8 Ebooks par Jeff Connor
Jeff Connor & Martin Hannan: Once Were Lions
Drawing on first hand interviews from more than 75 British Lions tourists since the golden age of the fifties, this book captures what it means to be a British Lions rugby player – the historic victo …
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Jeff Connor: Lost Babes
A moving story of how a legendary football team was lost to tragedy – and how this disaster irrevocably altered the lives of the survivors and the bereaved families, and ultimately brought shame on t …
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€8.49
Jeff Connor: Pointless
The inside, in-depth and indiscreet story of a season with Britain’s worst football club, East Stirlingshire. The Shire are lucky if all eleven players make it to a game, they have an average home at …
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€3.99
Jeff Connor: Field of Fire
In 1987, a British-based team competed in the Tour de France for the first time in almost two decades. The ANC-Halfords squad were decimated by the punishing pace, the manager walked out during one o …
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€14.99
Jeff Connor: Giants Of Scottish Rugby
From the heights of the Grand Slams to a near whitewash in the 2000 Six Nations championship, one factor has remained constant in Scottish rugby – its huge resource of characters. Early in the year 2 …
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Jeff Connor: Dougal Haston: The Philosophy Of Risk
The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes, who managed to combine a rock star’s lifestyle with …
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€16.99
Jeff Connor: Wide-Eyed and Legless
A fast-paced, fly-on-the-wall story of courage, endurance, bungling, rows and cheating in sport’s greatest marathon In 1987, the Tour de France was won by Irishman Stephen Roche. It was the first tim …
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€14.99
Jeff Connor: Busby’s Last Crusade
Busby’s Last Crusade is the never to be forgotten fable of Manchester United’s rise from the ashes of Munich in 1958 to the European Cup win 10 years later … and the humble Scot who led them there. W …
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€11.99
