Football category: 4223 books
Beyond Broadway Joe
The Super Bowl TEAM That Changed Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the New York Jets' historic achievement, a nostalgic, inside look from the men who composed the team behind Joe Namath’s Super Bowl III win, filled with exclusive insights and stories from the surviving players, coaches, and management of that championship...
Game of My Life Pittsburgh Steelers
Memorable Stories of Steelers Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
After enduring decades as one of professional football’s worst teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers began their streak of dominance in the 1970s, recording four world championships in that decade alone. The Steelers now share the record for most Super Bowl appearances (8) and championships (6).
Now...
Taste of the Town
A Guided Tour of College Football's Best Places to Eat
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
College football culture is captured through the food, small town characters, and college life that makes Saturdays in autumn something fans look forward to every year.
In TASTE OF THE TOWN, Todd Blackledge, host of the enormously popular ESPN segment "Taste of the Town," focuses...
Lost?
Liverpool FC and English Football at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Liverpool F.C.’s most famous manager, Bill Shankly, declared that the club ‘exists to win trophies’ and for many years this maxim proved true, as Liverpool became one of the most successful clubs in European football and dominated the scene in England for over two decades. Yet recently, the...
The Sum of the Parts
The Evolution of the Perfect Team
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2016
What makes a team greater than “The Sum of the Parts”? Ten years ago was a special time for Reading Football Club, a provincial team with a long but largely undistinguished history. Suddenly, all the pieces of the football jigsaw clicked into place to create what was virtually a perfect team...
Nutrition and Football
The FIFA/FMARC Consensus on Sports Nutrition
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2006
*Nutrition and Football *is a FIFA endorsed book which provides the first formal scientific consensus on players’ energy use fluid, and optimal nutritional requirements. Including:
nutrition for pre-season, training, match play and in different climates
analysis of the energy and metabolic...
The Georgia Bulldogs Playbook
Inside the Huddle for the Greatest Plays in Bulldogs History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A detailed breakdown of the most memorable moments in Georgia football
For serious football fans wanting to relive the most unforgettable, extraordinary, and gut-wrenching moments in the University of Georgia’s football history, this account explores the team’s greatest plays, providing context,...
by Nick Constable
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Remember Sergio Aguero's late goal to win the title for Man City? Or, best of all, Geoff Hurst's hat-trick wining the World Cup for England in 1966?
Over half a century, Match of the Day has witnessed some of the greatest moments in football history, week in, week out. From the big shorts and...
Mud Sweat and Shears
Tales from the Turf - Life as a Football league Groundsman
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Mud, Sweat and Shears is the story of Roy Oldfield - groundsman at Burnley FC through the 1970s and 1980s. It tells of how he went from miner to parks and recreation man and eventually became one of football's most-respected turf men. On the pitch he saw more bad times than good, but his offer to 'Av...
The Roar of the Lionesses
Women's Football in England
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Millions watched the 2015 Women's World Cup as the England Lionesses roared in Canada, winning bronze. Their fighting spirit and fabulous skill captured the fascination of the entire country as their campaign unfolded in the small hours of the 2015 summer mornings. On the back of this success, attendances...
A Football Fling
Could Oxford United Really Steal the Heart of a Manchester City Fanatic?
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
When Steve Mingle's financial services company was pulled out of the hat as shirt sponsor at League Two Oxford United in 2013, it sparked a crazy period for the fanatical football follower - for as well as becoming closely involved with the U's, Steve is also a long-standing Manchester City season-ticket...
by Rachele Alpine
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The Cutting Edge meets Step Up in this hilarious M!X novel where the worlds of football and ballet collide.
Brooklyn Gartner eats, sleeps, and breathes ballet. But after her mom gets remarried and moves them to Texas, everything changes. Thanks to her star football player stepbrother, her family...
Bo's Warriors
Bo Schembechler and the Transformation of Michigan Football
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A giant tsunami hit the staid Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan in 1969 when it was announced that Glenn Edward “Bo” Schembechler was to be the new head football coach, replacing the beloved Bump Elliott. Efforts to pronounce the last name correctly came in response to thousands of...
Bobby Brown
A Life in Football, From Goals to the Dugout
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This is Bobby Brown's remarkable life in and out of football, highlighting his debut as Scottish manager in the famous Wembley win over world champions England in 1967. The book charts his progress from schoolboy playing for Queen's Park to Scottish international goalkeeper in wartime and after. Bobby's...