Football Soccer category: 2112 books
The European Game
An Adventure to Explore Football on the Continent and its Methods for Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
The European Game is an adventure. Over three months Dan Fieldsend travelled the continent discovering the methods for success used at some of the biggest clubs in Europe, from Ajax and Juventus, to Feyenoord, Inter Milan, Bayern Munch, Benfica, Athletic Bilbao and many more. At each institution he...
World in Motion
The Inside Story of Italia '90
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Italia '90 was the best and worst of World Cups. It made a global star of England's inspirational Paul Gascoigne and gave fresh confidence to English football but it was also the lowest- scoring of all World Cups, leading directly to the back-pass ban that transformed the sport. World In Motion travels...
Arsenal All 4-1
A Guidebook to an Historic Season Straight from Highbury's Gooner Grapevine
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The 2003-04 football season was a landmark in the Gunners' already illustrious history. Consolation for the Arsenal's costly Cup exits could come in the form of an achievement the like of which might never again be repeated. as they remained undefeated in the Premiership right to the end of a triumphant...
On the Brink
A Journey Through English Football's North West
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
As the days became shorter and the nights darker, Simon Hughes began a journey through the country's most successful football region during the winter of the 2016/17 English season. Starting in Carlisle and heading south, Hughes went through Barrow, Morecambe and towards the Fylde coast. He trekked...
Red Rebels
The Glazers and the FC Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
In 2004, Manchester United could proclaim itself the richest football club in the world, and boasted global commercial appeal alongside more than a decade of success on the pitch. In early 2005, American businessman Malcolm Glazer targeted a leveraged takeover of the club, and it looked set to be...
El Clasico: Barcelona v Real Madrid
Football's Greatest Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Real Madrid versus Barcelona is regarded by many as the most captivating fixture in world football. But it is not only the on-pitch battles that have forged their rivalry. From General Franco and bloody civil war to the Catalan city of Barcelona's lukewarm reaction to Spain's recent World Cup and...
by Bill Gardner, Cass Pennant
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
He arrived to rally the troops, the main man in the Inter City Firm and his greeting passed into football fan history. 'Afternoon, gentlemen, the name's Bill Gardner.' That introduction alone was often enough to provoke sheer terror in his opponents. He is a genuine legend to anyone who's ever stood...
Above Head Height
A Five-A-Side Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
'The Fever PItch of five-a-side' TONY PARSONS
A must-have for anyone who has ever played and enjoyed amateur football.
James Brown has been playing football since growing up in the backstreets of Leeds. The sudden death of one his long-standing team mates made James ponder the unique...
by Steve Hart
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
The language of football is at times a confusing and complex dialect, and mastering it requires prolonged exposure to the environment in which it is spoken. For those desiring to learn but naturally not prepared to attend Torquay V Burton or the Gun and Magpie on a Saturday afternoon then this book may...
by Douglas Beattie
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Why do football fans decide to support one club over another in cities where intense, deep-seated rivalries exist?What makes them choose: family ties, geography, politics, religion or perhaps race?'Rivals Game' author Douglas Beattie spent two years discovering what lies at the heart of Britain's greatest...
Leeds United - From Darkness into White
The Year of Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The 2007-08 season for Leeds United Football Club will have been anything but regular. At the end of the previous season, one of England's most famous football clubs was relegated to what is in effect the Third Division. Still stricken with mountains of debt accumulated under an earlier regime, the...
No Hunger In Paradise
The Players. The Journey. The Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Shortlisted for the British Sports Book Awards 2018
“What’s your dream, son?”
A six year-old boy, head bowed, mumbles the eternal answer: “Be a footballer….” Steadman Scott, football’s most unlikely talent scout, smiles indulgently, and takes him in from the street. He...
Sir Matt Busby
The Definitive Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The Man Who Made A Football Club
Sir Matt Busby, who took Manchester United to unprecedented glory before seeing the club through profound tragedy, created the global entity that spreads from Old Trafford today.
A player with Manchester City and Liverpool before the Second World War,...
The School of Hard Knox
The Autobiography of Archie Knox
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The School of Hard Knox chronicles the life and career of one of the most admired and respected coaches ever to grace Scottish football, Archie Knox.After his early days at Forfar Athletic, Archie became a key ally for Alex Ferguson at Aberdeen and Manchester United. Together they won the Scottish...