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  • CLIVE WOODWARD

  • The Ultimate Biography The REAL Story of the Man Behind the World Cup Win
  • By: Alison Kervin
  • Narrated by: Adrian James
  • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

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CLIVE WOODWARD

By: Alison Kervin
Narrated by: Adrian James
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Summary

The greatest coach England has ever produced? Madmen? Genius? This is the ultimate, award-winning, highly acclaimed biography of Sir Clive Woodward. It has been brought fully up-to-date to celebrate the 10th anniversary of England's rugby World Cup victory.

Learn about ever facet of Woodward's life. What made him great? Who did he upset along the way? What do the players REALLY think of him? What went wrong in football and what did he do to help British Olympians in their training for London 2012. He's brilliantly successful but what is he really like? And what does he do with teams to make them so successful?

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"The best sports biography? Probably. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant." (The Daily Telegraph)

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Great insight to Sir Clive

Excellent insight to the business and sporting life of Sir Clive Woodwood.
Narration spoiled by poor editing as quite a few lines were repeated, unlike Sir Clive no attention to detail

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Great insight but poor editing

Well researched and insightful look at one of World leaders in leadership and management in both sport and business.

audio book should have been narrated by a woman as written by one and sometimes in the 1st person.

also appears not to have been edited -at all- the narrator often repeats lines that he's messed up and they are both left in. wondered for a while if my player was messing up.

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Enjoyable and informative

Really enjoyed this insight into Clive Woodward. The only annoying thing was the amount of times the narrator repeated or half repeated the previous line of the book which got to be fairly irritating. Were they just in a huge hurry!? Anyway I highly recommend it.

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bad editing

Editing is poor.Skips and repeats a lot. But very interesting. I can recommend this book

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Terrible edit of a good book

Sentences were repeated frequently, often in different tones of voice as if it was a pre production edit. Nowhere near the usual quality. Spoiled a good insight into a sporting genius.

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