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West Ham United's elite era began in 1958, when the Hammers secured their place in the top division of English football. Since then it has been a rocky ride. The team has dropped divisions from time to time, but always risen again. Even among the elite, West Ham have seldom shone, other than in occasional...

One of three distinct sections from Jason Dickinson and John Brodies complete history of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. The editorial sections of the book have been broken down into three distinct e-books so that the reader can pick and choose the individual part of the book that most attracts their interest. Matches to Remember is a must-have for all true Owls fans!

If you go to the match, drink beer, go bird watching or read ALS then you may have bumped into Sobs, cos that’s what he spends his time doing too.When we decided to publish our first ever book the obvious author was ALS's resident madman. Who else would be crazy enough to spend a whole year...

In Il mio amico Eric, il celebre film di Ken Loach, a Eric Bishop, il working class hero dell’opera, che gli chiede quale fosse il goal più bello della sua carriera, Éric Cantona risponde: «Il mio goal più bello? È stato un passaggio!». La battuta geniale di Cantona figura non a caso come...

Having risen to the top of the game more than a decade ago, Lionel Messi has matured into the perfect team player, as likely to provide a superlative assist as a masterful match-winner.  As the star of an exceptional Barcelona team, he has won more silverware than most football clubs.  Messi...

The youngest player to score in the World Cup final since Pelé, for the tournament-winning team, in his brief career to date Kylian Mbappé is breaking records at a rate matched by only the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, and is fast becoming one of the biggest names in football. But...

'When The Kop is roaring it really is like having a twelfth man out there on the pitch. They're the best fans in the country - by miles.' Jamie Carragher The Spion Kop is one of the most famous, emotive and atmospheric vantage points in all of sport. The one-time terracing that could 'suck...

The 114-year wait for the Scottish Cup to return to Leith is finally over. Year after year, Hibs fans have had to endure the taunts of rival supporters as their team continually failed to capture what had become its Holy Grail. Then, in the 92nd minute of a pulsating Scottish Cup final at Hampden...

Quick, incisive and versatile, Antoine Griezmann is the ultimate modern forward. Arriving in 2014 to join an Atlético Madrid side persistently challenging for the biggest trophies in Spanish and European football, he quickly established himself as the team’s key player and main goal threat. A Super...

An essential fly-on-the-wall account of the biggest World Cup tournament ever staged. 1998 is the year the World Cup comes home. Almost 70 years since Jules Rimet’s dream first came to fruition, France plays host for the first time to the greatest sporting event in the world. And, with a record-breaking...

Penthouse and Pavement is not a book for glory-hunters. It is a book about pain. It's about the anguish of watching your team lose 9-2 in the very first game you ever saw, about the horrible inevitability of defeat that so many feel so often. It's about despair, dismay and black, frightening, deathly...

George 'Geordie' Armstrong served Arsenal for 27 years as both a player and a coach, before being cruelly taken from his family and his club whilst coaching the Arsenal reserves at London Colney - he collapsed suddenly on the training pitch having suffered a brain haemorrhage in October 2000 - and never...

Liverpool FC is one of the world's leading football clubs - and a host of talented Irish players have played a significant part in its history. Here, Keith Falkiner looks at the proud history of Liverpool F.C. through the eyes of its Irish players, managers and fans taking in the great highs and desperate...

On the first day of January 1973, eleven men wrote a very special chapter in the history of Hibernian Football Club. They were the famous Turnbull's Tornadoes and they humbled arch-rivals Hearts in an epic 7-0 victory at Tynecastle stadium in Edinburgh. Now, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of that...