Football Soccer category: 2112 books

One of Afghanistan’s first books remembered 10 years on in new eBook In 2007, Airman Mal Robinson kept a diary of his time with the RAF in Kandahar, Afghanistan. That diary was published and the book “From Afghanistan to Temazepam” was born. It charted his time in the war zone, coinciding...

'Football looked at in a very different way' Pat Nevin, former Chelsea and Everton star and football media analyst Football – the most mathematical of sports. From shot statistics and league tables to the geometry of passing and managerial strategy, the modern game is filled with numbers,...

‘Not since The Football Man has a book so captured the passion of the game**.** The Bottom Corner is a wonderful journey through life in the lower reaches of the football pyramid**. A** fascinating tale of a very different world of football from that of the overpaid stars of the television age’...

Leopold Method’s Quarterly Edition is a cross-between the world renowned UK football publication the Blizzard and Australian current affairs journal Quarterly Essay. Issue 2 includes pieces on our long involvement in Asia; the women’s game; coaching and the role of sport in immigration. - The Long...

One anonymous football fan. 18.6 million confidential documents. This is the explosive story of the biggest leak in sporting history, and the shady underworld of modern football. In 2016, a whistleblower known only as 'John' started to leak a treasure trove of top-secret files...

What does a football hooligan firm do outside football? In the case of Mark Chester and the infamous Stoke City Naughty Forty, the answer was: live off their wits and burn the candle at both ends. Chester left Stoke in the mid-Eighties in search of something more than the buzz of terrace violence. He...

Overpaid players. Sunday lunchtime kick-offs. Absurd ticket prices. Non-black boots. Football's menu of ills is long. Where has the joy gone? Why do we bother? Saturday, 3pm offers a glorious antidote. It is here to remind you that football can still sing to your heart. Warm, heartfelt and...

AFC Wimbledon are the true phoenix club, formed and owned by supporters who have been on an incredible journey from the Combined Counties League to League Two over the past eleven years. The climb from the ninth tier of the English football pyramid was by no means smooth. Plenty of rocky obstacles...

Football Grounds: A Fans Guide is essential reading for any supporter who intends following their team away from home during the 2017/18 season. Covering all 92 football grounds of the English Premier and Football Leagues as well as the Cup Finals and League Play Offs venue, Wembley Stadium, it is...

• In which year did the first televised football match take place? • What were the first shin pads made out of? • Who held the shortest ever managerial position, at a record-breaking ten minutes? From the humble beginnings of Notts County football club in 1862 to the technical...

Over 40 years spent at the cutting edge of football reporting for "The Daily Mirror," "Daily Express" and "Today" newspapers, gave Derek Potter a unique insight into the characters of legendary personalities in the game. The only non-London based winner of the...

Football has dominated Lou Macari's life. Taken on as an apprentice by Celtic in the wake of their 1967 European Cup triumph, Macari learnt his football the old-fashioned way. He quickly broke into the first team, winning Scottish league titles and Cups in both 1971 and 1972, but it was at Manchester...

Charlton Athletic represent a model of how a Premiership football club should be run. Former manager Alan Curbishley reveals the secrets of the club’s success – from the boardroom and manager’s office down to the dressing room and pitchside – and reflects on how the club went from homeless...

Do you know everything there is to know about football? Are you familiar with all the players and managers who have played an important part in the beautiful game during the past 20 years? Can you recall the cup winners and bring to mind the final scores of all those important matches? If so, this quiz...