The inspirational, against-the-odds story of a small football club and how it sustains a nine-month challenge for promotion before the global pandemic stops the team in its tracks. When the season restarts, Wycombe finds itself in the play-offs behind closed doors, an unprecedented opportunity through unprecedented turmoil.
Tennis has never before been blessed with such an array of talented stars doing battle for the sport’s most coveted titles. Games featuring Murray, Nadal, Federer, Djokovic, the Williams sisters and Maria Sharapova are among the most thrilling matches in the history of the game – and Neil Harman has witnessed them all. He is so close to the beating heart of tennis that he has become a confidant to many of the game’s stars and administrators, even at one stage mentoring Victoria Azarenka to help her handle the media pressure at the top of the women’s game. In short, Neil enjoys a privileged access that is unmatched elsewhere in the sport.Here he shares tennis’s most intimate secrets in a book replete with personality, excitement, drama and intrigue. Featuring frank, in-depth interviews with all the leading players, their coaching staff, their agents and managers, Harman presents the game from an insider’s perspective and offers the fresh insights and strong personal views for which he is celebrated. Court Confidential recounts a defining time for modern-day tennis: from Wimbledon to the Olympic Games, from Serena Williams’s battle with illness to Andy Murray’s historic grand slam victory, this is a book for tennis fans everywhere.
The Championships 2013 will go down as one of the most incredible fortnights in the history of Wimbledon. The highlight, of course, was Andy Murray's sensational victory over world No. 1 Novak Djokovic on a Centre Court bathed in glorious sunshine and boiling over with emotion. When Murray put that final, dramatic game to rest and dropped his racket to the floor in disbelief, it signalled the end of a 77-year wait for a British men's singles champion at Wimbledon, and Centre Court and indeed the whole nation exploded with joy. But Murray's historic triumph was just the final act of a Championships that almost defies description. Former champions Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer both departed the tournament before the third round for the first time in Grand Slam history, while 'Wacky Wednesday', one of the most astonishing days ever at Wimbledon, saw seeded players departing the tournament far earlier than had been expected. The second week witnessed another catalogue of extraordinary matches at the All England Club, from Sabine Lisicki's defeat of Ladies' Singles Champion Serena Williams to the epic men's semi-final between Djokovic and Juan Martin Del Potro, the longest in Wimbledon history. There was also the emergence of Marion Bartoli as a Grand Slam contender as she powered her way to victory in the Ladies' Singles Championship without dropping a set. Not to mention the Bryan brothers, who achieved a Grand Slam of Grand Slams in the men's doubles. When the dust had settled and the cheers of Centre Court had finally died down, the Fortnight had concluded with a British Wimbledon men's singles champion and the memories preserved here in these pages of a truly remarkable Championships
All My Own Words charts the extraordinary twists and turns of a special sports writing voyage. Neil Harman rose from local reporter in Southend to become the leading football voice on the Daily Mail and later the man they called 'Mr Tennis' on The Times. It is a story of resignations, sackings and incredible personal access to sporting legends.