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BE OUR 12TH MAN - RODNEY RETURNS
Posted on: Tue 13 Oct 2009
From QPR
R's legend Rodney Marsh will be returning to Loftus Road this weekend, as the Hoops lock horns with high-flying Preston North End in the Coca Cola Championship.
The former Rangers striker will be in the QPR Superstore between 1.30-2.00pm to sign copies of the popular Hooped Dreams book, available now for just £9.99.
And as the roll out of our 'Be Our 12th Man' campaign continues, we've taken this opportunity to look back at an extract from Issue One of our popular QPR: The Official Magazine, when the man himself paid tribute to the R's faithful...
Rodney Marsh has always got on well with the fans. There is one relationship in particular he describes as 'sensational, absolutely sensational,' but is at a loss as to the origins.
"I don't know why it happened or how it happened. I would make mistakes and they'd cheer me. They started the 'Rod-nee' chant. When I first came I came with a reputation. They sung that to take the mick. But after I scored 20 goals it became an original and iconic chant.
"Other teams copied it, using other people's names, but it was a Rangers fan's original. The relationship was special and genuine and even after Stan (Bowles) came, they used the chant but with his name. I always had that affinity with the supporters."
It's no surprise then that Marsh will always consider QPR as the closest to his heart. "My Club is QPR, I don't deny that to anyone. QPR was the happiest time of my football life."
The Viking's memoir to Pennant
28 July 2009
From Bookseller.com by Graeme Neill
Independent sports publisher Pennant Books has bought world rights to an autobiography by former world darts champion Andy "The Viking" Fordham.
Managing director Cass Pennant bought rights from Humfrey Hunter at Hunter Profiles for an undisclosed sum.
The book will be published on 28th September in hardback and chart Fordham's darts career and struggle with alcoholism. After 25 years of drinking at least 25 bottles of beer a day, Fordham, who weighed 31 stone at the time, collapsed and nearly died in 2007.
He was told he needed an immediate liver transplant but defied medical opinion as his health turned around and he started on the road to recovery.
Pennant said: "'The Viking' is one of the most popular players of all time and one of the darts world's true characters. Aside from his anecdotes of life on the road and meetings with British celebrities, Andy also tells an immensely human story of self-destruction and redemption that will appeal not only to fans of the sport but to the wider biographical readership."
NEW ACQUISITIONS
18 July 2009
 Pennant Books are delighted to announce what is a real coup in acquiring a first-hand autobiography of darts legend Andy ‘The Viking’ Fordham.When you consider ‘The Viking’ is one of the most popular players of all-time and one of the true characters in the darts world, with a immense personal story and comeback tale that will appeal not only to the darts enthusiasts but also to the wider readership this could well be our William Hill Sports Book Award entry and nomination. Read more ...
 Brian Belton is our most prolific sports book biographer and we are to publish late in the year to coincide with the forth-coming 2010 Winter Olympics his Olympic Gold Run. Celebration of Britain’s greatest bobsleigh triumph and success when Tony Nash and Robin Dixon- now Lord Glentoran won gold for Britain at Innsbruck 1964. The author has the full co-operation of both Nash and Dixon to tell for the first time the story of this remarkable and historic feat also remembered for one of the greatest moments of sportsmanship ever seen at the Winter Olympics. Read more ...
TRUE CRIME
22 June 2009
 ITV’s new season series of Real Crime programs presented and interviewed two Pennant Books authors, when the show presented by the news presenter Mark Austin, re-examined the horrifying case of the murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in 1992 that so shocked the nation.
Colin Stagg was the innocent man wrongly suspected and persecuted; Justice came 16 years later when DNA technology was strong enough to bring the real killer Robert Napper to justice.
 The most horrific murder story that became murders can be read and explored at depth from two very different reading material angles courtesy from the Pennant true crime list. Interest in Pariah published 2008 and co-written with Ted Hynds it is in Colin Stagg’s own words, while the recent publication of Killer in the Shadows: the monstrous crimes of Robert Napper by Laurence Allison and Mary Eyre just goes from strength to strength, proving immensely popular with a hardcore true crime readership.
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