Almost timeless… The book [will be] just as relevant and readable in years to come… A worthy addition to this well-proven series of eclectic and well-written stories

Insightful and easily-digested collection of cycling stories covering a wide range of topics

Inspiring and moving

Sensational

Achingly honest

In a year when some of the highest-profile sporting memoirs have been marked by self-serving narcissism, this is a story of substance

A must read... It is breathtaking

This compelling and exhaustively researched biography resurrects the story of a uniquely fascinating man...The authoritative biography of Johnson for sure, but also one of the best boxing books in recent memory.

'probably the finest book on the uniquely talented and horribly hounded black heavyweight champion from the early years of the 20th century...Johnson was a remarkable man... Little has changed, believe it or not'.

'Great subject, great book....Ward shows us how the great black heavyweight champion overcame a poor education to mix successfully with the glitterati of Europe and America'.

'Geoffrey C Ward offers a detailed and telling portrait of Johnson's life and times'.

'compelling biography...Johnson's life was a chaotic tableaux of women, fights and fast cars...Ward depicts all this in gripping prose...Hats off to Ward for getting as close to the ghost as anyone will'.

Ward has produced a meticulous, well-researched biography of a maverick, a fascinating figure who held on to sport’s most coveted world crown for seven years. Compulsive stuff

Superb… full of great insight

Hamilton through the stories and backstories of others broadens his horizons to explain the phenomenon that was Best and the world that destroyed him. Offering up new material and new perspective, Hamilton, as one reviewer would opined, mastered biography.

Dickinson is tender to the memory of the Essex lad who, for a breathtaking instant, was glorious

Matt's work is the most impressive West Ham book of the year, a genuine and sincere attempt to get to the root of the man. It is an excellent, thought-provoking book

A compelling and complete account

In The Man in Full, acclaimed football writer Matt Dickinson traces the journey of this Essex boy, peeling away the layers of legend and looking at Moore’s life from all sides – in triumph, in failure, in full

Outstanding... this excellent biography comes very close to describing the real Bobby Moore