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by Michael Keane
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Football in the 1980s is a wide-ranging and quirky look at some of football’s biggest moments, matches and personalities from the decade that fashion forgot. A mixture of facts, trivia and anecdotes, the author covers not only top-flight football, but also the lower leagues, European competitions and the World Cups from both sides of the globe.
British Asians and Football
Culture, Identity, Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
In spite of a great passion in the game and significant involvement at amateur level, British Asians are under-represented in professional football. This book asks how and why this situation has developed, using extensive interviews with British Asian football players to offer an insider’s assessment...
Youth Football Coaching
Developing your team through the season
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Most youth football teams are managed by amateur coaches, parents and teachers who have a love of the game, but often don't have the relevant coaching qualifications or training. You want the best for and out of your team, but where do you start? Youth Football Coaching is essential reading for all...
by John Riddle
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
The King of Cappielow, with a fitting Foreword by Sir Alex Ferguson CBE, is a tribute to the much-loved Scottish footballing legend, Andy Ritchie. He was born in Glasgow in 1956 and developed a passion for football from a young age. As a teenager he went for trials with several English clubs, but in...
From Graveyard to Ambition
The Official History of the Swansea City Supporters Trust
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
It was Dylan Thomas that described Swansea once as 'The Graveyard of Ambition', but back in 2001, a small group of supporters discussed the possibility of forming a supporters' trust. Just three months later that group was thrust to the forefront of a battle to save a football club that had for so...
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...
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...
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...
by Nacho Ferrer
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
The Spaniards’ approach to the beautiful game is not just a matter of radical short passing combinations, or very skilled players, or organized teams during the defensive phase. It is all that and much more.
For many years, in Spain we have been strongly influenced by at least a dozen different...