Football (Soccer) category: 2112 books
A-League
The Inside Story of the Tumultuous First Decade
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
In November 2004, shopping centre billionaire Frank Lowy walked into a packed media conference and announced the creation of a new professional football league. Armed with $15 million of government funds, Lowy was about to wake the sleeping giant of Australian sport. The A-League kicked off in 2005....
Squeaky Bum Time
The Wit, Wisdom and Hairdryer of Sir Alex Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Sir Alex Ferguson, who retired in May 2013 as manager of Manchester United is the most success manager English football has ever seen. He was simultaneously the most admired and feared manager in British football. During almost forty years in the dugout, and over half a century in the professional...
by Biggs Alan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Radio 5-Live and BBC 1's match summariser, football journalist Alan Biggs, relates his comical escapades in the world of professional sport in Confessions of a Football Reporter. From his earliest days presenting on cable TV (while skiving off from his regular job at the Derbyshire Times), Biggs gives...
by Vanessa Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
A fantastic new sporting humour series with other titles planned for release over the next year. Superb collection of humorous football quotes, stories, anecdotes, jokes and chants, highlighting some of the key characters of the game such as Jose Mourinho, Sir Alex Ferguson, John Motson, Bill Shankly,...
Suarez
The Remarkable Story Behind Football's Most Explosive Talent
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Bestselling football biographer Luca Caioli tackles his most controversial subject yet - Barcelona, Uruguay and former Liverpool forward Luis Suárez. When in late September 2013 Luis Suárez returned from a landmark ten-match ban for biting an opponent, one in a long line of high-profile misdemeanours,...
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,...
Alex Ferguson
6 Years at United
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Alex Ferguson, once king of Scottish football, gave up the easy life in Aberdeen to follow in the famous footsteps of Sir Matt Busby. Others had flickered and then faded in the shadow cast by the legendary Busby but Ferguson couldn’t resist the call. ‘Football is a strange obsession. Winning is...
Sharpe as a Blade - Part Two
A 70s Trip
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Sharpe as a Blade 2 (A 70s Trip) is the follow up to Sharpe as a Blade one (The 50s and 60s) The book continues the life story of retired football 'lad' Ronnie Sharpe and his love affair with Sheffield United Football Club.
To those who were there, football in the 70s represented a golden...
by Ian Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Ollie is more than just a football book - this is a story of personal grit and determination. Ian Holloway is one of football's most fascinating characters as well as being a highly respected football coach. He controversially moved from Plymouth Argyle, whilst seventh from top in the Championship...
Red Glory
Manchester United and Me
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The definitive insider’s story of life behind the scenes and within the corridors of power at the biggest football club in the world. When Martin Edwards became chairman of Manchester United in 1980, the club's estimated worth was £2 million. When he retired just over two decades later the club...
by Jeff Connor
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
A moving story of how a legendary football team was lost to tragedy – and how this disaster irrevocably altered the lives of the survivors and the bereaved families, and ultimately brought shame on the biggest football club in the world. The Manchester United team Matt Busby had built in the fifties...
Enjoy the Highs, Survive the Lows
A fifty year love affair with football
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Enjoy the Highs, Survive the Lows follows one man’s journey as a lifelong football fan and Spurs supporter. The book details the author’s experiences attending hundreds of matches during the course of fifty years and his often strong opinions regarding the top teams and all things football. In this...
Behind Closed Doors
Life, Laughs and Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2019
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Would a pre-book team-talk be useful before we begin? A few uplifting words to take with you as you pull on the shirt, tie your boots, perform a few light stretches and get ready to go out there and read this? I ought to be able to help. I’ve sat in enough dressing rooms with...
by Iain Macintosh
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Football Fables is a hilarious and fascinating anthology of stories from some of the most exciting names to have played the game. Some are outrageous, some sad, some downright bizarre - all are true, and straight from the mouths of the men who were there when it mattered.
What was it like to...