Soccer category: 2494 books
by Pierre H.
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Zinedine Zidane Zidane (name) Real Madrid C.F. Juventus F.C. UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll 1998 FIFA World Cup UEFA Champions League FIFA World Player of the Year FIFA World Cup awards AS Cannes France national under-17 football team France national under-18 football team France national under-21 football team France national football team
The Roman Conquest
Chelsea - Kings of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
After one billion pounds, eight managers in eight years, that 'ghost' goal defeat at Anfield in 2005, a penalty shoot-out defeat in the Moscow final against Manchester United, in 2008 and a scandalous refereeing performance against Barcelona in the semi-final a year later, owner Roman Abramovich got...
Football Leaks
Uncovering the Dirty Deals Behind the Beautiful Game
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
One anonymous football fan.
18.6 million confidential documents.
This is the explosive story of the biggest leak in sporting history, and the shady underworld of modern football.
In 2016, a whistleblower known only as 'John' started to leak a treasure trove of top-secret files...
The European Game
An Adventure to Explore Football on the Continent and its Methods for Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
The European Game is an adventure. Over three months Dan Fieldsend travelled the continent discovering the methods for success used at some of the biggest clubs in Europe, from Ajax and Juventus, to Feyenoord, Inter Milan, Bayern Munch, Benfica, Athletic Bilbao and many more. At each institution he...
Wenger
The Legend
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Arsène Wenger has made a science of football management and turned his players into artists. A surprise appointment at Arsenal FC when he arrived in 1996 and now the most established manager in English football, Wenger managed to convert a sceptical, entrenched footballing culture to his modern way...
by David Squires
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This is football comic-ery, but not as you know it. Welcome to the inimitable work of illustrator David Squires.
Football and comics. Once a hearty Saturday combination to match cartoons and cereal, in recent years they’ve drifted apart. Thankfully for us, Squires is here to change all that.
In...
Do You Speak Football?
A Glossary of Football Words and Phrases from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
'At last, the definitive guide to football phraseology across the world... Sparky and very funny.'
Paul Hayward, Daily Telegraph
**''Amusing and informative in equal measure.'
Oliver Kay, The Times
An expertly compiled and utterly fascinating compendium of the weird and wonderful words...
by Patrick Fort, Jean Philippe
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Get inside the mind of football's most enigmatic icon
‘Zidane is the master’ Pele
One of modern football’s most brilliant players - and one of its most iconic and mysterious figures - Zinedine Zidane’s football career is the stuff of legend. A World Cup-winner with France, he...
by Lee Price
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
German Football is on a roll: winners of the 2014 World Cup, club sides leading the way in Europe, a production line of superb talent coming through the system. Yet, fifteen years ago – at Euro 2000 – it was all so different. Germany suffered one of their most humiliating tournament exits as dismal...
World in Motion
The Inside Story of Italia '90
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Italia '90 was the best and worst of World Cups. It made a global star of England's inspirational Paul Gascoigne and gave fresh confidence to English football but it was also the lowest- scoring of all World Cups, leading directly to the back-pass ban that transformed the sport. World In Motion travels...
Football, Corruption and Lies
Revisiting 'Badfellas', the book FIFA tried to ban
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas,...
Arsenal All 4-1
A Guidebook to an Historic Season Straight from Highbury's Gooner Grapevine
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The 2003-04 football season was a landmark in the Gunners' already illustrious history. Consolation for the Arsenal's costly Cup exits could come in the form of an achievement the like of which might never again be repeated. as they remained undefeated in the Premiership right to the end of a triumphant...
Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters
Travels through England’s Football Provinces
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Daniel Gray is about to turn thirty. Like any sane person, his response is to travel to Luton, Crewe and Hinckley. After a decade's exile in Scotland, he sets out to reacquaint himself with England via what he considers its greatest asset: football.
Watching teams from the Championship (or...
A Great Face for Radio
The Adventures of a Sports Commentator
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Nominated as Best New Writer at the 2010 British Sports Book Awards, John Anderson tells the tale of how a humble insurance clerk from Guildford came to rove the world covering some of the biggest sports stories of the past 25 years. From the Seoul Olympics to a freezing hotel rooftop in Azerbaijan,...