Football (Soccer) category: 2112 books
Wasting Your Wildcard
The Method and Madness of Fantasy Football
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Every Saturday afternoon, 5.8 million people around the world settle down to see how their team will get on.
But this isn’t the team they support. It’s THEIR team.
They have spent hour after hour assessing injuries, swapping subs and tweaking formations. Because when the day is done...
by Nick Holt
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
You can never take what you love too seriously and The Periodic Table of Football celebrates this fact.
Welcome to The Periodic Table of Football. Instead of hydrogen to helium, here you’ll find Pelé to Sepp Blatter – 108 elements from the football pantheon arranged by their properties...
by Nicolae Sfetcu
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, Poland - Ukraine.
The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2012, will be the 14th European Championship for national football teams sanctioned by UEFA. The final tournament will be hosted by Poland and Ukraine...
by Richard Foster
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Modern football is brilliant, and yet it is also utterly rubbish. For every part of the beautiful game that reminds us why we love it, there's another to drive us up the wall. Half-and-half scarves, designated singing sections, goal music and open letters - the list is endless.
Football's...
All Quiet on the Hooligan Front
Eight Years that Shook Football
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
All Quiet on the Hooligan Front is a compelling exploration into the changing face of football. Covering the years just prior to the Hillsborough disaster up to the present day, it shows how the mood of English football has changed dramatically since the era of hooliganism described in its predecessor,...
The World (game) According to Les Murray
The Greats, the World Cup and the Aussies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Part history, part critique, all commentary, this book shares what it is about football that makes it so irresistible.In his distinctive voice and fired with his unique passion, The World (game) According to Les Murray tells the story of the truly global game of football: where it sprang from,...
The Sack Race
The Story of Football's Gaffers
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The future of football management is a hot topic of debate. An unprecedented spate of sackings in the 2001-02 season and the manner of many of the dismissals filled the back pages. There has even been talk of managers going on strike to defend their ill-treated colleagues.
Packed with big names...
by Dougie Brimson
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2006
One of the great joys of football fandom is that it provides the perfect opportunity to complain and make a point. For example, the referee was biased, the overpaid strikers hopeless, attendance poor, the tea weak and the pies inedible. That, for many fans, is a part of the attraction which football...
The Future of Football
Challenges for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
World football has undergone unprecedented change over the past decade. On the field, the richest European clubs have retained their pre-eminence, but with multinational playing squads backed up by global marketing industries. Club ownership rests increasingly with impersonal shareholders, rather...
by John White
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
There is something for every football fan in "The Premiership Football Miscellany". This title is neither a work of reference, nor a compendium of lists, nor a collection of biographies, nor a compilation of trivia. In fact, it is a glorious mixture of all these things and much more besides. The reader...
by Jamie Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2006
Few footballers have 'Jailhouse Rock' played over the PA when the make their professional debut, but that's what happened to Jamie Lawrence when he came on as a substitute for Sunderland against Middlesbrough in 1993. In a life that has seen him go from prison to the football premiership, Jamie has...
Falling for Football
The teams that shaped our obsession
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
It's the match-day routines and the walk to the ground. It's the ebullient youngster going to their first game and the jaded dad who's seen it all before. It's swapping stickers in the playground and attempting to recreate that astonishing goal in the park with friends. It's the ecstatic high of being...
Hail! Hail!
Classic Celtic Old Firm Clashes
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Some football derbies around the world might have bigger crowds and feature more fanatical fans, but no fixture has as long and passionate a history as the Old Firm derby. For more than 120 years, Glasgow has been divided between the green of Celtic and the blue of Rangers. The first official match...
Big Mal
The High Life and Hard Times of Malcolm Allison, Football Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Malcolm Allison is one of the most controversial figures of the last half-century of English football. Leader of the famed 'West Ham Academy', his playing career was cut short by the loss of a lung to tuberculosis. Disillusioned, he became a professional gambler before acknowledging that football...