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by Mark Worrall
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
The Italian Job (a Chelsea thriller starring Antonio Conte: Part One) chronicles Conte’s dramatic first campaign as Blues manager. Forging a remarkable emotional bond with players and supporters alike via a unique blend of charisma, passion, philosophy and humility, Antonio Conte transformed the...
by Johnny Meynell
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
In July 2011, DB Publishing produced a £25, 688 page, colour history of Halifax Town Football Club. Written by Johnny Maynell, the book tells you everything you need to know about the club right up to the end of season 2010-2011. For the purposes of the electronic version, the editorial sections...
Scotland in the 70s
The Definitive Account of the Scotland Football Team 1970-1979
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2019
The 1970s saw a change in the fortunes of the Scottish national side. After a gap of 16 years World Cup qualification was achieved for the finals in West Germany in 1974. Credited as the only undefeated side at the tournament, the sobering trip to Argentina four years later prompted more realistic...
Ticket to the Moon
Aston Villa: The Rise and Fall of a European Champion
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Aston Villa's 1982 European Cup win in many ways was the most romantic in football history. And yet, set against the backdrop of English dominance in the competition it is widely a forgotten achievement. Having achieved promotion seven years earlier under the club's iconic manager Ron Saunders, Villa...
by Jimmy Case, Kevin Keegan, Andrew Smart
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Jimmy Case is best remembered for a spectacular FA Cup final goal and a deserved reputation as one of football's genuine hard men. But that does scant justice to a career that covered more than 700 appearances for 7 league clubs and did not end until he retired, through injury, at the age of 41.Raised...
Messi vs. Ronaldo - 2017 Updated Edition
The Greatest Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
In 2009 Real Madrid paid £80m, a then record fee, to sign a ready-made superstar in an effort to keep pace with a Barcelona side that had won it all. In doing so, they sparked a rivalry like no other; Messi vs Ronaldo. The seasons that have followed have been truly spectacular, the battle for supremacy...
Political Football
Lawrie McKinna's Dangerous Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Growing up in darkest Scotland as the son of the local poacher and then rampaging across Europe with a pack of Rangers hooligans is not the best preparation for high office in Australia.
Father at 18, professional footballer at 20, Lawrie McKinna was living the dream until he uprooted for Australia...
Neymar – 2016 Updated Edition
The Unstoppable Rise of Barcelona's Brazilian Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
From a young age, Neymar Junior was identified as a future great of world football. Since then there have been both highs and lows, with triumphs at Santos sometimes overshadowed by the controversies and disappointments of his early days at Barcelona and at the Brazil World Cup. But his pivotal role...
Messi vs Ronaldo
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MBAPP**É AND MESSI, NEYMAR, RONALDO
For years, a personal battle has defined top-level European football – Messi vs Ronaldo. A rivalry like no other.
Since they were first pitted against each other in 2007, the two men’s domination of the record books...
Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo - 2017 Updated Edition
Head to Head with the World's Greatest Players
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Lionel Messi, Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo have risen from humble beginnings in Argentina, Brazil and Portugal to rank among the most exciting talents football has ever seen.
Now Luca Caioli, author of biographies of Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar, asks: ‘Who is the greatest of them all?’ Comparing...
by Brian Glanville
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Brian Glanville's dramatic history of the world's most famous football tournament has become the most authoritative guide to the World Cup. His classic, bestselling account is a vivid celebration of the great players and legendary matches in the competition from Uruguay in 1930 to Brazil in 2014 -...
Messi – 2016 Updated Edition
More Than a Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Lionel Messi is the greatest footballer of our time: a magician with uncanny ability to beat defenders, find space and score goals. At the peak of his powers during Barcelona’s 2015 treble win – a decade on from his first Spanish title – the four-time Ballon d’Or winner has again eclipsed...
Gareth Bale
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The story of one of the most promising young talents in the Premier League, the player who is regarded as one of Europe's hottest football properties
Born in 1989, Bale first attracted the attention of Southampton FC at the age of just nine. In school, he was such a prodigious talent...
From Oblivion to Hampden
Hibs Heroes of 1991
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
From near-extinction to cup-final triumph, this is the story of the team which is remembered by Hibs fans as 'the team that would not die'. From Oblivion to Hampden is the tale of one of the most remarkable cup runs in Scottish football history, as Hibernian Football Club, having survived a hostile takeover...