Football Soccer category: 2112 books

The book is the result of an idea conceived in 2006 and the writing itself begun in October 2007 and took almost two years. Sources for the project, which included official FIFA publications were numerous and varied. These together with other publications and studies published by other authors that...

Before 2012, the idea of Rangers ever playing in the SFL Third Division would have been a joke. But it's a funny old game, and after a tumultuous few months, gone were visits to Celtic Park, Pittodrie, Tynecastle and Easter Road and in came a whole new world with trips to Annan, Elgin, Berwick and...

To find the record crowd for a home game, the record appearance holder, or longest-serving manager look no further than this book on the Reds, packed with facts, stats, trivia, stories, and legends Liverpool, the most prolific trophy-winning club in the history of domestic and European football, has...

For followers of the legendary Rams no phrase sums up the club more aptly than it could only happen at Derby County. This hugely entertaining collection of strange but true tales shows exactly why. Through over one thousand fascinating nuggets of trivia humorous, tragic, strange and utterly bizarre...

Rangers Cult Heroes tells the story of the club through the careers of its 20 greatest icons - the men who made the blue half of Glasgows pulses race. During Paul Smiths journey through a pantheon of Rangers greats, he discovers that there is much more to being a Gers Cult Hero. Each players career is...

In December 1959 the Guardian ran a story on a struggling Second Division club: W. Shankly was appointed manager of Liverpool last night at a salary reported to be £2,500 a year.Five years on, the struggle was just a memory. The Guardian's Eric Todd was at Anfield to watch Shankly's dramatically reshaped...

This book is not your usual whitewash. Irreverent, hilarious and surprising, Wayne Rooney: Boots of Gold is a tarts-and-all biography of England's most famous sportsman and an exposé of the iniquities of some of those who have sought their pound of flesh from his celebrity. Short-tempered and sweary...

He's got no hair but we don't care, walking in a Hartson wonderland.' That famous song was belted out 110 times around Celtic Park as big bad John became one of a select band of players to score a century of goals in the Hoops. Now in his typical no-holds-barred style, the former Arsenal and Wales...

In a 16-year career spent with Chelsea and Southampton, goal-scoring legend Peter Osgood made 560 appearances, scoring 220 goals and winning two FA Cup-winner's medals. He was part of the victorious Chelsea side that defeated the mighty Real Madrid in the 1971 European Cup-Winners Cup final and is...

Manchester United's quest to win the European Cup was forged amidst the charred remains of an Elizabethan airliner that crashed on take-off at Munich's Riem Airport on 6 February 1958. Twenty-three people died in the tragedy, including eight of the famous Busby Babes. From that moment manager Matt...

UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE 2018 WORLD CUP The story of one of the greatest footballers of all time, Barcelona and Argentina's Lionel Messi. 'I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi' Diego Maradona Despite all the fame and adulation,...

Are you an Everton fan? Can you remember back to the team’s glory days of the 1980s? Would you like to revisit all of those magical moments from 1983-1985 or find out more about that time? If so, you are certain to enjoy this new book, researched and illustrated by lifelong Everton supporter, Andy...

Dave Jones is one of the most respected managers in football, who took Cardiff to the FA Cup Final and Wolves to the Premier League. But few fans could possibly identify with the anguish and turmoil that blighted his life. A family man and loving father of four children, Daves world was turned upside...

On 6 February 1958, a plane took off from a snowy Munich airport carrying probably the finest club side the world has ever known. Moments later, the aircraft crashed, killing some of the most legendary names in British football. This book is dedicated to those players - Roger Byrne, Tommy Taylor,...