Former Glories and New Beginnings is a story told in two parts. It skilfully
recreates not just one magical European trophy-winning night in May 1983, but
the club's golden era of the late 1970s to mid-80s. It also explores the
current era under Dave Cormack's stewardship, which promises to see the Dons
back at the top.
Seventy-four years is a long wait, but with the 2021/22 season that wait
finally ended. Follow Brentford's progress in this diary of the highs and lows
of the biggest season in the history of the club. Only one thing is certain -
whatever the season would bring for the Bees, everyone connected with the club
would be buzzing!
Arsenal Football Club has had some great goal scorers down the years, but it
takes someone special to register a century at the highest level. This volume
catalogues every goal from the 19 centurions who have graced both Highbury and
the Emirates Stadium to claim their well earned places in Arsenal's 100 Club.
Having betrayed King Darius, Miltiades, a duplicitous Athenian renegade on the run from the Persian Empire, is forced to make for the churning instability of new democratic Athens. He has to convince the hostile, frightened Athenians that if they don't fight the Persians then, like him, they are doomed. Athens seethes with enemies who want him dead and the only person he can trust is his Luck Bringer the ungovernable teenaged Mandrocles. Against a background of treachery and violence Miltiades fights his battles in the courts and councils while Mandrocles fights his in the streets, theatre, bars and brothels. As the Persian threat grows and the danger within threatens Miltiades chooses to fight at Marathon where the ragged citizen army, including some of the greatest figures in the ancient world faces the overwhelming might of the Persian Immortals in 24 hours that changed history.