Football category: 4223 books
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...
Welcome to Hell?
In Search of the Real Turkish Football
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Ask a British football fan what they know about Turkish football, and they are unlikely to describe scenes of camaraderie, hospitality and humour. They are more likely to mention banners proclaiming 'Welcome to hell'. Or Leeds United supporters stabbed to death on an Istanbul street.
Frustrated...
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...
Sapp Attack
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In his no-holds-barred memoir, Sapp Attack!, Warren Sapp, one of the NFL's most hilarious and candid personalities, reveals a side of football most fans have never before seen.
Big Man. Big Talent. Big Star. Big Mouth. Big Heart. Big Personality. Big Smile. Big Headlines. Warren Sapp, one of...
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...
Sixteen and Counting
The National Championships of Alabama Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians.
Dating back to 1925, when Wallace Wade coached the Crimson Tide to an undefeated season and earned a spot in the Rose Bowl, the driving goal of...
Heisman
The Man Behind the Trophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The first authorized and definitive biography of the man behind the most famous individual award in sports, including never-before-published photos and correspondence.
No other football trophy captures the country’s imagination like the Heisman does. Each September, as the college football...
Fantasy Man
A Former NFL Player's Descent into the Brutality of Fantasy Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The New York Times bestselling author of Slow Getting Up chronicles his descent into the madness of early retirement and fantasy football.
In Slow Getting Up—hailed by Rolling Stone as "the best football memoir of all time"—Nate Jackson told his story face down on the field. Now, in Fantasy...
by Editors of Sports Illustrated
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
For more than 50 years, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has been the gold standard of sports writing, and during that time, football-once a popular college pastime but only a rag-tag professional game-has moved to center stage, taking its unquestioned place as America's most popular sport. This book brings together...
Cheating Is Encouraged
A Hard-Nosed History of the 1970s Raiders
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Straight from the mouths of the legends of the Silver and Black, Cheating Is Encouraged recapitulates the many as infamous stories from the last team to play outlaw” football.
Regardless of whether you loved or hated them, the Oakland Raiders of the 1970s were an amusing cast of outlaws,...