Football category: 4223 books
Casuals
Football, Fighting and Fashion: The Story of a Terrace Cult
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
First came the Teds, then the Mods, Rockers, Hippies, Skinheads, Suedeheads and Punks. But by the late Seventies, a new youth fashion had appeared in Britain. Its adherents were often linked to violent football gangs, wore designer sportswear and made the bootboys of previous years look like the dinosaurs...
by W. Roger Baker
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2016
**Winners. Leaders. Teachers. **These incredible men shaped the game Americans love.
Which of them won six National Championships?
Who were the "blackshirts?"
Who has the highest win percentage in college football?
This book has all the answers and more.
by Chris Garson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The Cleveland Browns have provided fans in northeast Ohio memories to last a lifetime. For the Garson family, those memories stretch over four generations, beginning with my grandparents and ending, for now, with my son, niece and nephew.
Section 6 is less a football story than it is a story...
by Mike McIntire
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A searing exposé of how the multibillion dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes.
With little public debate or introspection, our institutions of higher learning have become hostages to the rapacious, smash-mouth entertainment conglomerate known, quaintly, as...
Go Blue Devils!
A History of Plattsmouth High School Football, 1893–1979
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Plattsmouth, Nebraska lies at the confluence of the Platte and Missouri rivers. The people of Plattsmouth are proud of their small towns rich history, of their strength and determination as a community. They also share something that larger towns cannot, something that for generations has helped unite...
Parcells
A Football Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Bill Parcells may be the most iconic football coach of our time. During his decades-long tenure as an NFL coach, he turned failing franchises into contenders. He led the ailing New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories, turned the New England Patriots into an NFL powerhouse, reinvigorated the New...
Paying the Price
A Life In Football...and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
In PAYING THE PRICE: A LIFE IN FOOTBALL...AND BEYOND, Earnel Durden traces his life from tumultuous post-war Los Angeles to his time as an assistant coach for the San Diego Chargers and beyond. From his college-career—and the injury that ended it all—to his lifelong association and friendship...
Footy Grounds to Grandstands
Play, Community and the Australian Football League
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Play in the Australian Football League is not what it was. At the game’s founding, Australian football was exactly what the AFL’s Latin motto tells us it is today – ‘the game of the people, for the people’. In its formative years it was played and watched by Australians who loved the game...
Manchester United: The Biography
The Complete Story of the World's Greatest Football Club
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
75 MILLION FANS.
AN ANNUAL INCOME OF MORE THAN £200 MILLION.
AND A STORY THAT HAS NEVER FULLY BEEN TOLD - UNTIL NOW.
'A wonderfully entertaining history' Sunday Telegraph
'When historians 1,000 years from now try to fathom the cult of Manchester United Football Club, White will be a...
by Dougie Brimson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Faultless - Football365As EURO 2000 approached, attention once again focused on the potential threat posed by the activities of football hooligans. Not just those from England, but also from Holland, Belgium, Germany,Italy, France and even Turkey.Yet as this last year has proven, whilst the hooligans...
Leeds United
Trials and Tribulations
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Leeds United have arguably experienced the most dramatic upheaval in fortunes of any club in the recent history of English football. From their rise to a championship challenge in the Premiership and subsequent participation in the Champions League semi-finals, they plunged to the brink of bankruptcy...
Glory, Goals and Greed
Twenty Years of the Premier League
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
The FA Premier League was born 20 years ago, on 23 September 1991, and has since established itself as the most popular club competition in world football. At the start, however, there was opposition from the players' union and the Football League. Then the breakaway elite were faced with the exposure...
Once in a Blue Moon
Life, Love and Manchester City
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Once in a Blue Moon is the story of one man's never-ending affair with Manchester City. It chronicles his childhood growing up in a 1960s Manchester suburb, his awakening to the Blue side of Manchester, and his lifelong passion for the club. More than just another football book, it is an odyssey charting...
The Dallas Cowboys
The Outrageous History of the Biggest, Loudest, Most Hated, Best Loved Football Team in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
The definitive, must-have account of the all-time players, coaches, locker rooms and boardrooms that made the Dallas Cowboys "America's Team."
Since 1960, the Cowboys have never been just about football. From their ego-driven owner and high-profile players to their state-of-the-art...