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Italy and sport: the passion that binds together a nation struggling to find its real identity

Who's Who back to its trivial best

From the heroically virtuous to the tearfully metrosexual - the changing face of manliness and Yorkshire cricket

Elegant put-downs from a master of his craft

Extraordinary story of Merckx the machine is subject of fascinating new biography

Sweeping history of how commercialism and greed swallowed the sporting ideal

Tied Up With Notts, by Colin Slater: Half a century of Notts County from the man who has seen it all and told the tale

Didi Man with a big place in Liverpool folklore

Close, D'Oliveira and Packer - the three men at the heart of a cricket revolution

Up Pohnpei -- how an English football journalist took charge of the world's worst national football team and turned them into winners

All On Red offers an insider's view of Liverpool during their golden era

Clough: Confidential, by Dave Armitage: Sequel to popular 150 BC reflects perennial appetite for Brian Clough stories

Inside the Divide: Richard Wilson gets to the heart of Celtic v Rangers rivalry

Arthur Kinnaird - a philanthropic nobleman and unsung football pioneer

Ridley marks milestone with crafted chronicle of the Premier League