Bøger af Mark Worrall

The Italian Job (a Chelsea thriller starring Antonio Conte: Part One) chronicles Conte's dramatic first campaign as Blues manager. Forging a remarkable emotional bond with players and supporters alike via a unique blend of charisma, passion, philosophy and humility, Antonio Conte transformed the London club into silverware contenders once more... but football's roller coaster ride had some terrifying surprises in store. Glorious unpredictability is an expression that Chelsea author and season ticket holder Mark Worrall coined some time ago to describe the nerve-shredding drama that regularly envelops Stamford Bridge... be that snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, or turning adversity into triumph. Italian Job recounts exactly how Conte took glorious unpredictability to another level. With more outrageous plot twists than a Hitchcock thriller, week-by-week, game-by-game the tension mounts as the 2016/17 season heads towards a suspenseful conclusion. "Every game, every goal and everything in-between. The Italian Job is the definitive account of Antonio Conte's first season as Chelsea manager." Total Football

When Skies Are Grey: Super Frank, Chelsea and the coronavirus crisis every goal, every game and everything in between, the definitive account of the 2019-2020 season"You are my Chelsea, my only Chelsea. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never notice how much I love you, until you've taken my Chelsea away." A traditional anthem sung by Blues supporters for decades takes on true-to-life meaning during the 2019-2020 season when the deadly coronavirus pandemic brings Premier League football to a juddering halt."When Skies Are Grey" is a deep dive into an unprecedented campaign that delivers Hollywood-style drama from the minute Chelsea appoint Club legend and record goal scorer Frank Lampard as manager on 4 July 2019. It's Lampard's destiny to return to Stamford Bridge and despite having to cope with a transfer embargo Blues supporters are tingling with anticipation in the weeks building up to the big kick-off away at Manchester United. The match ends in a 4-0 defeat for the London club, a reality check for the new gaffer, players and fans alike.Undeterred, and increasingly putting his faith in the dazzling array of young talent that blossomed in Chelsea's Academy, Super Frank takes supporters on a gloriously unpredictable rollercoaster ride that gains momentum on 22 February 2020 when the league double over bitter rivals Tottenham Hotspur is completed and hits the buffers on 13 March when elite football in England is suspended because of the spread of coronavirus. 10 days later, with the COVID-19 death toll spiralling, the United Kingdom is placed on lockdown a situation that has far-reaching consequences for society.Helping lift the gloom and make supporters proud, Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich along with players and staff at the Club make a wide-range of thoughtful and generous gestures to provide support to National Health Service staff and key workers. Significant donations are also made to charities.Ultimately, the relentless pursuit of money by the game's power brokers dictates that the Premier League eventually returns on 17 June with all remaining fixtures crammed into six weeks and played behind closed doors. It's a scenario plenty of fans have serious misgivings about as the season resumes and accelerates to a suspense-filled conclusion.Set against a backdrop of fears of the unknown, incessant ITK (in the know) transfer rumours and spectacular social media fallouts, "When Skies Are Grey" provides a unique day-to-day insight into the mind-set of Chelsea supporters as they follow their team during the course of a campaign that will never be forgotten.

Money, sex, drugs, rock and roll, and Chelsea Football Club, Johnny Nipper is deeply preoccupied with them all. For thirty years he's had it all his own way, double crossing and dealing his way through life without a care in the world until the day he gets it all wrong. Wracked by guilt and in fear for his life, Nipper leaves London to begin a new life in Goa where he encounters Chopper Lewis, an old acquaintance from the Stamford Bridge terraces who persuades him to tell his vivid, hip and sexy story. A stylish exploration of the morality of greed, revenge and violence, 'Blue Murder: Chelsea Till I Die' has, in the intervening years since its original publication, established itself as a must-read 'True Crime' masterpiece.

Arrivederci Antonio is the second and final instalment of 2017s best-seller The Italian Job - A Chelsea thriller starring Antonio Conte (part one). During the process of guiding the Blues to the Premier League title in his first season as manager at Stamford Bridge, Conte had become a true man of the people revered by supporters who appreciated his tactical nous and applauded his passion for the game of football and determination to win. Basking in the glow of that title triumph, expectations among the fans were running high in the summer months. Champions League football was back on the agenda and a raft of major signings were being rumoured... star players who would enable Conte to take Chelsea to the next level. Something wasn't quite right though. The Italian was unhappy and he predicted that 2017/2018 would be the most difficult season of his career... he wasn't wrong! Arrivederci Antonio chronicles Conte's gut-wrenching and drawn out demise at the Bridge from a supporter's perspective. Alleged boardroom wrangling's, missed transfer targets, fall outs with the boys from Brazil, fall outs with Jose Mourinho, false 9 experiments, suffering without the ball, suffering with the ball, the search for the 'perfect game', embarrassing defeats... and one final two-fingers-up-at-the-world-style grandstand victory at Wembley make for the type of gloriously unpredictable rollercoaster ride that only Chelsea ever embark on. Set against a backdrop of spectacular #ConteIn #ConteOut #ConteIn #ConteOut supporter spats on social media, Arrivederci Antonio is a unique and entertaining insight into the triumphs, disasters and conclusion of Antonio Conte's mind-bending reign as Chelsea manager.

Chelsea's steady, multi-trophy-winning ascent to football's summit has been well documented. In the modern Blues era, relegation is something that happens to other clubs, while a defeat to bitter London rivals Tottenham Hotspur is as rare an occurrence as a total eclipse of the sun. But life wasn't always quite so carefree at Stamford Bridge. April 1975, Spurs beat Chelsea 2-0 at White Hart Lane -- all but preserving their own top-flight status, while effectively condemning the Blues to Division Two. Managing Chelsea for the first time that day was 35-year old Eddie McCreadie who'd already achieved cult hero status at the Bridge as an integral part of the swashbuckling kings of the King's Road Blues side that lit up the game in the mid-late '60s and early '70s. Set against a gloomy backdrop of economic recession, trouble on the terraces, and a football club on the verge of bankruptcy, Eddie Mac, Eddie Mac forensically details how McCreadie placed his faith in young players and achieved promotion to Division One in 1977. Cheered on by the burgeoning hordes that went by the name of Eddie McCreadie's Blue and White Army, Chelsea were back and seemingly set for great things -- but suddenly Eddie left. Why? The supporters were both perplexed and saddened - the media didn't really have a clue. There were rumours about a row over a company car, but no-one ever got to know the real reason -- until now. In his own inspiring words, McCreadie details his time as Blues boss and explains why he left. Fascinating interviews with players of the day who clearly revered him paint a picture of a maverick manager ahead of his time, while comedian Omid Djalili sets the scene from a supporters' perspective with an insightful foreword. Eddie Mac, Eddie Mac is the greatest Chelsea story never told -- the missing piece of the complex jigsaw puzzle that depicts Blues history.

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