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Red Men

Liverpool Football Club - The Biography

by John Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

In Red Men, a unique and exhaustively researched history of Liverpool Football Club, John Williams explores the origins and divisive politics of football in the city of Liverpool, and profiles the key men behind the emergence of the club and its early successes. The first great Liverpool manager,...
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Football FAQ

All That's Left to Know About the Clubs, the Players and the Rivalries

by Dave Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015

Football FAQ is a fast, furious, and opinionated guide to the world's most popular game, an all-encompassing history that introduces readers to the biggest clubs, the greatest games, the finest players, and the fiercest rivalries. From Sunderland to Seattle, from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Football FAQ...
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Fifty-Six

The Story of the Bradford Fire

by Martin Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. On May 11 1985, fifty-six people died in a devastating fire at Bradford City's old Valley Parade ground. It was truly horrific, a startling story – and wholly avoidable – but it had only the briefest of inquiries, and it seemed...
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Us v Them

Journeys to the World's Greatest Football Derbies

by Giles Goodhead
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012

Travelling football fanatic Giles Goodhead drags a series of unsuspecting friends and relatives to eight of the world's greatest derby games. From the noisiest (Barcelona) to the scariest (a toss-up between Istanbul and Glasgow) Us vs Them desribes the thrills of gate-crashing grudge matches in cities...
Cover of Little Book of Football
by Michael Heatley
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013

It's nearly a century and a half since the first rules of football were thrased out in a London tavern. The lawmakers gathered there would hardly recognise the game as we now know it, with live television broadcasts and multiple camera angles, websites updating us on the facts and figures of our favourite...
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For Richer, For Poorer

Rangers: The Fight for Survival

by Paul Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012

The start of the 2011–12 season should have marked the dawn of a bold and brave era for Rangers Football Club, as new owner Craig Whyte accepted the keys to Ibrox from Sir David Murray. But football became a sideshow during Whyte’s first campaign as tax rows, court action and the plunge into administration...
Cover of England Player by Player
by Graham Betts
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014

The England Football Team is the oldest national football team in the world, playing their first official match against Scotland in 1872, resulting in a 0 – 0 draw. Over the next 140 years, the national side would play more than 900 matches and select nearly 1,200 players to represent their country....
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I'll See You Out There

Arsenal, Manchester United and the Premier League's Greatest Rivalry

by Mr Rob Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2022

The rivalry between Arsenal and Manchester United in the late 1990s and early 2000s was the greatest in English football history. It is the only time two teams have completely dominated the league for a decade. It was a mixture of the epic and the pathetic, with glorious football, hateful confrontations...
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Lost In France

The Remarkable Life and Death of Leigh Roose, Football's First Superstar

by Spencer Vignes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

In 1914 one of Britain's most famous sportsmen went off to play his part in the First World War. Like millions of others, he would die. Unlike millions of others, nobody knew how or where. Until now. Lost in France is the true story of Leigh Roose: playboy, scholar, soldier and the finest goalkeeper...
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Fergie Rises

How Britain's Greatest Football Manager Was Made At Aberdeen

by Michael Grant
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014

When Sir Alex Ferguson retired at the end of the 2013 season, he was the most successful football manager Britain had ever seen, having won twice as many trophies as his nearest rival. But that success had not come easily. Thirty-five years previously he had arrived at the rain-swept training ground...
Cover of Third Lanark: Champions of Scotland 1903-04
by Thomas Taw
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012

Third Lanark no longer exist. The only League champions in Britain ever to go bust. The end was ignominious: Third could not even afford to buy footballs. But once, they defied all the odds to become Scottish champions. Third Lanark was a club of proud origins, a proud history and a sad ending. Third...
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The Golden Boot

Football's Top Scorers

by Mark Metcalf, Tony Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012

In 1888, Englands Football league came into being and ever since a player has been recognised each year for the highest number of goals scored in the league, First Division or Premier League. The first was John Goodall of Preston North End, with 21 goals, the most recent, Didier Drogba, with 29. The...
Cover of The World's Funniest Football Jokes
by Jim Chumley
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017

What did the manager do when the pitch became flooded? He sent on his subs. God and the devil were having an argument, and Satan proposed a football game between heaven and hell to resolve the dispute. God, in his eternal goodness, pointed out that it wouldn’t be a fair match...
Cover of Football's Funniest Jokes
by Jim Chumley
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017

What did the manager do when the pitch became flooded? He sent on his subs. Football is a funny old game, and not only because of the players’ hairstyles. 'Football’s Funniest Jokes' is guaranteed to raise a chuckle even if you’re still feeling sore about that goal that was NEVER off-side.
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