Football category: 4223 books
Always Fighting Irish
Players, Coaches, and Fans Share Their Passion for Notre Dame Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Drawing insight from nearly 100 former players, coaches, and others directly tied to this storied and revered school, fans will read firsthand accounts about what being a part of the legendary football program means. The ultimate compendium of everything that is special about the University of Notre...
by Chas Newkey- Burden
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Arsenal Football Club's list of achievements bear comparison with the very best in world football. Multiple championships, FA Cup and League Cup wins as well as two European trophies have made the club recognised throughout the world and, under the astute management of Arsene Wenger, millions of fans...
by Iain Duff
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
For more than 100 years, Ibrox has been the home of Rangers Football Club. It has been the scene not only of some of this sporting institutions greatest triumphs, but also of two of the worst disasters in British football. Ibrox is an imposing ground that is rich in history and tradition, while boasting...
Quotations from the Public Comments of Arsene Wenger
Manager, Arsenal Football Club
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
When Arsene Wenger was appointed as manager by Arsenal Football Club in 1996, football fans everywhere gave a puzzled look and asked, 'who?'
They were soon to find out just what kind of man had become a part of English football, as Wenger added to Arsenal's first Double win by leading them to another...
England's Eastenders
From Bobby Moore to David Beckham
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Bobby Moore lifting the World Cup at Wembley on a July afternoon in 1966. England had triumphed against West Germany thanks to a hat-trick by Geoff Hurst and a goal by Martin Peters. All three heroic players were from West Ham, the most famous club of London's East End. This is an area synonymous...
by Andy Mitten
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
A celebration of the classic football derby matches. From the Celtic–Rangers rivalry and Tyneside derby to the biggest global clashes from Barcelona to Buenos Aires, journalist Andy Mitten uses the fans' own words and stories to illuminate the conflicts, tensions, histories and culture behind these...
by Danny Baker, Danny Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
At last! The award-winning Baker & Kelly bring you the most entertaining, radical and unreliable football book ever published. The Two Dannys argue the toss, spill the beans and chew that fat about everything and anything from the biggest questions down to stuff they have frankly invented themselves.
Which...
So You Think You're a Dallas Cowboys Fan?
Stars, Stats, Records, and Memories for True Diehards
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
So You Think You’re a Dallas Cowboys Fan? tests and expands your knowledge of America’s Team. Rather than merely posing questions and providing answers, you’ll get details behind each-stories that bring to life players and coaches, games and seasons.
This book, the first in a new sports...
The Lost Boys
Inside Football’s Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
From South America and Africa, kids as young as 13 are leaving poverty-stricken families for a new life in Europe, having been sold the vision of untold riches and the trappings of professional football. This is football's slave trade – the beautiful game turned ugly.
Talent-spotted by scouts,...
Game of My Life Detroit Lions
Memorable Stories of Lions Football
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
It was Thanksgiving Day, 1962. The Detroit Lions handed Green Bay its only loss during the Packers’ championship season. But the Lions didn’t just beat Vince Lombardi’s team-they sacked All-Pro quarterback Bart Starr a league-record eleven times. All-Pro defensive lineman Roger Brown recorded...
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
A Cultural Analysis of Manchester United
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
A unique thematic history of Manchester United from the club's creation as humble Newton Heath in 1878 to its status as the world's greatest football brand, this book gets to the essence of the heart and soul of the club. Key topics explored include the club's ability to rise from the ashes, commitment...
For the Glory
College Football Dreams and Realities Inside Paterno's Program
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Here is the college football experience as seen through the eyes of the young men who play the game. Sportswriter Ken Denlinger takes the reader on a five-year odyssey into the lives of one scholarship class and reveals their experiences at Penn State and in Coach Joe Paterno's program.
Ken...
by Cass Pennant, Rob Silvester
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2004
Portsmouth's 6.57 Crew, named for the time of the train they took to away games, were the most talked-about casual football firm of the 1980s and 1990s. Labelled 'the worst in the land' by the police, this is pompey's true shocking story. For the first time, the firm's insiders reveal the truth behind...
Wings of a Sparrow
A comedy about football, fortune and a fanatical fan
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Rob Cooper, self-confessed football fanatic and editor of the United FC fanzine, Wings Of A Sparrow, returns from watching his team succumb to yet another defeat to discover that not only has he inherited an estate worth in excess of six million pounds, but that it has been left to him by an uncle he...