Football category: 4223 books
by Jim Wexell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The "Immaculate Reception" may have started it all, but the 1979 Pittsburgh Steelers put the stamp on the modern era’s greatest sports dynasty. It’s not even a debate. No other National Football League team in the modern sports era-as defined by Nielson-won so much in so little time. The tag is...
Shearer Wonderland
Duncan Shearer: The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Duncan Shearer's incredible rise from non-league football to the international stage was a football fairytale. But away from football he's also had his share of personal tragedy. Shearer Wonderland now tells the inside story of his remarkable life and career. Discover how he missed out on the chance...
A History of NFL Preseason and Exhibition Games
1986 to 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
For fans of professional football who thought they had read everything about the history of the game, Mark L. Ford breaks new ground with this account of the NFL preseason. Described as “test labs” by Ford, preseason games are a time for trying out new strategies, considering future rule changes,...
The Naughty Nineties
Football's Coming Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Football has reinvented itself. As television money has poured into the game, the traditional working-class fans have poured out - not by choice, but by economic necessity. According to those in charge of the game the football hooligan has at last been eliminated from the landscape. But how true is...
A Matter of Life and Death
A History of Football in 100 Quotations
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH takes the sayings of the great and the good – not to mention the lovers and the loathers – of the beautiful game as starting points for an informal, freewheeling and entertainingly opinionated history of football.
Exploring themes as diverse as the language of...
by Maureen Hunt, Bernie Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
George Best was one of the greatest footballers ever to have walked the Earth - an absolute legend. His ability as an all-round player was, and still is, unsurpassed. He was highly skilful, a tough tackler and great in the air. As well as being an exceptionally gifted sportsman, George also had a...
The 10 Football Matches That Changed the World
And The One That Didn't
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The assertion that 'football isn't a matter of life or death, it's much more important than that' has been verified repeatedly throughout modern history. It has bolstered tyrants and helped depose them; contributed to conflict and created ceasefires. It has been an incubator of racism at home and...
by Dave Basset
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2002
Dave Bassett is one of football's colourful characters. He is the man who led Wimbledon to their FA Cup triumph in 1988. His talents are renowned throughout the football league. In his autobiography he reveals the stories that have been the hallmark of his amazing career.He reveals the truth behind...
Game of My Life Auburn Tigers
Memorable Stories of Tigers Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
What creates a championship team? Spirit, determination, and a legacy that refuses to die. Game of My Life Auburn Tigers is a collection of the greatest Tigers moments from past and present as seen through the eyes of the players themselves. In this vivid collection of sports moments, Mark Murphy...
by Ryder Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
The SEC is an elite conference—without question one of the toughest in the country. It attracts nationally ranked recruiting classes and produces All-Americans and BCS contenders every year. This eBook includes all 14 SEC titles in the 51 QUESTIONS FOR THE DIEHARD FAN trivia series: Alabama, Arkansas,...
Legends of the Buffalo Bills
Marv Levy, Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, and Other Bills Stars
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Legends of the Buffalo Bills, first published in 2003, is not only a story about a National Football League team. It is also the story of the city it occupies and its fans. Original members of The Foolish Club,” a group of owners who bought into the idea of forming the American Football League...
It’S Halftime America
“Use “Football Basics” to Reshape America and Its Politics . . . . a Light History of Football, Politics and the Usa.
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Football is not that complicated, and neither is life. When football players face challenges and return to the basic fundamentals of the game, this helps to win every contest. So it is with the game of life, and more specifically life in the USA. When we get back to basics, and pull together, with hard work by everyone, then we will succeed as a nation.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The football World Cup is unquestionably the biggest sporting event in the world. This fascinating collection of papers examines the background to the 2002 World Cup Finals, held in Korea and Japan, and explores the event's profound social, cultural, political and economic significance.
The...
The Club
Living the Dream at the bottom of English Football
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
English Football has over 92 fully professional clubs. Players in the Premier League teams now earn an average salary of £2.3 million per annum. Meanwhile, on the bottom rung, entire squads make less in a year than Wayne Rooney takes home in a month. An army of young players sacrifice their education...