Soccer category: 2494 books
We Ate All the Pies
How Football Swallowed Britain Whole
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
In Who Ate All the Pies?, the gonzo sports journalist explores and celebrates the things we love about the whole culture of the game, tries to explain how we got to where we are now and speculates where we the game is headed. Amongst other things, he explores the history of the football shirt in style...
And the Sun Shines Now
How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
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On 15 April 1989, 96 people were fatally injured on a football terrace at an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield. The Hillsborough disaster was broadcast live on the BBC; it left millions of...
Mr Moon Has Left the Stadium
Confessions of a Matchday Announcer
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
JEREMY NICHOLAS is West Ham United's stadium announcer. A supporter since the age of six, Jeremy's blood runs claret and blue. In the summer of 1998, after decades in the stands, he became the voice of his club - announcing the players, the substitutions, the trials and tribulations, and best of all...
by Harry Redknapp
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
After 40 years in football management, there’s not a lot I haven’t seen. There’ve been big highs, but a fair share of lows too. When I have to make difficult decisions, I make a point of avoiding newspapers, phone-ins, Twitter – all of it. But there’s always a load of armchair-pundits waiting...
Leeds United
Trials and Tribulations
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Leeds United have arguably experienced the most dramatic upheaval in fortunes of any club in the recent history of English football. From their rise to a championship challenge in the Premiership and subsequent participation in the Champions League semi-finals, they plunged to the brink of bankruptcy...
Premier League
A History in 10 Matches
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Tens of millions follow it.
It attracts the finest global talent to play in what is almost a weekly World Cup.
In just 20 years it has transformed football from national embarrassment to Britain's leading cultural export.
It offers dreams and drama, pride and passion, triumph...
by Keith Salmon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A book born out of a once in a lifetime trip to Istanbul. Follow one mans life bound by his passion for Liverpool FC. Watch the Hillsborough and Heysel disasters unfold in front of his very eyes, and see how Istanbul heralds an end to his old life and a start to his new life. The journey takes in the...
by David Edgar; Scot Van den Akker
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Take a stroll down Edmiston Drive with the people who know it best - the fans! The Bear is the unofficial online Rangers fanzine, packed with features to get your blue blood stirring.Edited by David Edgar and Scot Van den Akker, and featuring articles from Bears all over the world, it takes a sideways...
by Michael Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Despite its immense wealth, and the high public profile it enjoys, English football is not a land of milk and honey. The national side has won the World Cup only once when England staged the tournament in 1966 and the woeful performances in recent years would suggest that Sir Alf Ramsey's success...
Glory, Goals and Greed
Twenty Years of the Premier League
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
The FA Premier League was born 20 years ago, on 23 September 1991, and has since established itself as the most popular club competition in world football. At the start, however, there was opposition from the players' union and the Football League. Then the breakaway elite were faced with the exposure...
Fearless
The Amazing Underdog Story of Leicester City, the Greatest Miracle in Sports History
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
The odds of the Foxes winning the Premier League at the start of the season were the same as the Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster being proven to exist, Christmas being the warmest day of the year in England or Barack Obama playing cricket for England after he left the Oval Office.” —ESPN
On...
Shine On Swansea City
2011/12 A Season in the Sun
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
A sensational account of Swansea City’s 2011/12 season in the Premier League covering 12 months in the life of a Welsh football club that in 2002 was just 40 minutes away from extinction and expulsion from the football league. Taking up the story where he left off at the end of Walking on Sunshine,...
Deepest Red
a Manchester United anthology
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Deepest Red is a collection of writing about the myth, madness, and glory that is Manchester United
Edited by lifelong United fan, and journalist, Brian Foley, it brings together writers, bloggers and journalists to provide fresh insight into the club’s history, pinpointing the defining...
The Bottom Corner
A Season with the Dreamers of Non-League Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
‘Not since The Football Man has a book so captured the passion of the game**.** The Bottom Corner is a wonderful journey through life in the lower reaches of the football pyramid**. A** fascinating tale of a very different world of football from that of the overpaid stars of the television age’...