Football category: 4223 books
Navy Football
Return to Glory
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Navy football holds a unique place in college athletics as one of the oldest and most prestigious programs the game has ever known. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Midshipmen were nationally recognized by the major bowl games they played and Heisman Trophy-winning players Joe Bellino and Roger Staubach....
John Lyall
A Life in Football
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Legendary West Ham manager John Lyall, who sadly died in 2006, is remembered with affection as one of the all-time great football managers by former colleagues and football fans alike. Lyall was widely regarded as man of great integrity and is credited with laying down the foundations of the footballing...
by Mark Beams
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Fantasy football is an interactive competition that is held online where participants draft real NFL players and form fantasy teams. The participants are referred to as General Managers of the teams and they are able to perform similar actions that will simulate a real professional organization. Some...
Touchdown Tony
Running with a Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The true story from which the inspirational movie Woodlawn starring Jon Voight, Sean Astin, and C. Thomas Howell, is based on African American running back Tony Nathan and his experiences on a mostly white team in 1970s Birmingham, Alabama, and how his courage and superb athletic ability helped heal...
Nearly Reach the Sky
A Farewell to Upton Park
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Success, failure, heroism, stupidity, talent, skulduggery ... Upton Park has seen it all. If supporting his club for fifty years has taught Brian Williams one thing it's that football fans definitely need a sense of humour - how else would they cope with the trials and tribulations that are part and...
by Tom Wright
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
This is the story of a football team that came back from the brink to become the most successful side in the entire country during the immediate post-war years.Under the leadership of a sometimes brash but charismatic chairman, Hibernian would burst to the forefront of Scottish football during what...
by Lennie Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Lennie - The Autobiography of Lennie Lawrence is the story of one of football's most long-serving and well liked characters. In a career spanning over 30 years "Lennie" is one of football's elite belonging to a unique group of managers including Sir Alex Ferguson, Brian Clough and most recently...
by Fausto Batella
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
10 years of passions, deeds and impossible dreams, with Lamar Hunt, Bob Kap, Robert Carey and Bruno Beneck. “With Spaghetti Football"– intended affectionately, not disparagingly – I tell the story of the stadium named for Lombardi, built in the
Umbrian countryside after a series of curious...
Hope
My Life in Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Hope Powell was a skinny little black girl from South London who only ever wanted to play football. Brought up in a violent home, she was actively discouraged from playing. The original Bend It Like Beckham girl, this is the amazing story of how a kid from a Greenwich housing estate became one of...
Firsts, Lasts & Onlys of Football
Presenting the most amazing football facts from the last 160 years
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Mister Donnelley's compendium of tantalising tales brings you a multitude of intriguing and amusing stories - from the midfielder murdered by a secret police force to a crazed chairman trying to raze to the ground his club's main stand. Marvel at this fascinating exhibition of Firsts, Lasts and Onlys...
Passing Game
Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Benny Friedman, the son of working class immigrants in Cleveland's Jewish ghetto, arrived at the University of Michigan and transformed the game of football forever. At the time, in the 1920s, football was a dull, grinding running game, and the forward pass was a desperation measure. Benny would change...
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Football
Classic Super Bowls! Amazing Playmakers! Historic Dynasties! And Much, Much More!
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
From Lombardi's Packers through Brady and the Patriots, here is the ultimate look at the greatest sporting event in America -- the Super Bowl -- through its greatest quarterbacks, coaches, and highlight-reel plays.
In the second book of the LEGENDS series, ESPN's Howard Bryant delivers THE...
Fantasy Football For Winners
The Kick-Ass Guide to Dominating Your League From the World's Foremost Fantasologist
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2012
Sick of never winning a fantasy title? Then stop complaining and do something about it. Incorporating groundbreaking statistical analysis, graphs, illustrations, and impressively large words like “impressively,” Fantasy Football for Winners gives you the tools to dominate your league year after...
by Steve Pitts
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
As the first-time manager of a provinical non-League football team, former England star Paul Gascoigne promised to fulfil their dreams. Then, in the space of just 39 days, both manager and team saw a dramatic reversal of fortune… Gazza was the English football icon of the 1990s. His magnificent...