Football category: 4223 books
Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside
World War II, Army's Undefeated Teams, and College Football's Greatest Backfield Duo
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Heisman Trophy winners Glenn Davis and Felix Blanchard—renowned during their playing days at West Point as “Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside”—were the best-known college football players in the country between 1944 and 1946, and Army was the nation’s top-ranked team under legendary coach Red Blaik....
Leicester City FC Miscellany
Everything you ever needed to know about The Foxes
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The Leicester City FC Miscellany is packed full of fascinating facts, figures, trivia, stats, stories and anecdotes all relating to the long and colourful history of Leicester City Football Club. From the most memorable matches and the men who helped shaped the club’s history; to the more gruesome...
Tellement plus que du foot !
Les plus grandes coupes du monde
Language: French
Release Date: May 16, 2018
La coupe du monde de football est l’évènement le plus suivi sur les cinq continents, loin devant les jeux olympiques. De 1930 à 2018, de Montevideo à Moscou, les auteurs évoquent une quinzaine de mondiaux qui ont fait vibrer des générations de passionnés. Coupes du monde de football controversées...
Shankly's Village
The Extraordinary Life and Times of Glenbuck and its Famous Sons
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Glenbuck is a name that resonates through the history of football in Britain. Once a tiny village in the Ayrshire coalfields, it produced an unprecedented roll call of professional players. Its most famous son, Bill Shankly, shaped not just Liverpool's destiny but exerted a huge influence on the evolution...
Insightful Player
Football Pros Lead a Bold Movement of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
** “Compelling, interesting and important” true stories of hard work, perseverance and success from some of the greatest football players in NFL history (Peter King, Sports Illustrated).**
To play in the National Football League, you have to have something special. A special drive, a special...
Goalless Draws
Illuminating the Genius of Modern Football
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Half-and-half scarves? VARs? England winning penalty shoot-outs?
Modern football can be baffling. But if you're contemplating throwing it all in for the simpler pleasures of quantum mechanics, don't despair just yet: help is at hand.
In Goalless Draws, David Squires unpicks the modern...
Return to Glory
The Story of Clemson's Historic 2015 Season
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Return to Glory is the inside story of Clemson’s magical 2015 football season, featuring stunning photography, stories, analysis and commentary from the award-winning journalists of The Greenville News.There was no holding back the Tigers in 2015. Behind quarterback Deshaun Watson and a stout defense,...
Fight for Old DC
George Preston Marshall, the Integration of the Washington Redskins, and the Rise of a New NFL
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In 1932 laundry-store tycoon George Preston Marshall became part owner of the Boston Braves franchise in the National Football League. To separate his franchise from the baseball team, he renamed it the Redskins in 1933 and then in 1937 moved his team to Washington DC, where the team won two NFL...
by Neal Manning; Dave Allard
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Ipswich Town Uncovered. A football book with a difference. It takes you behind the glory and the cameras and, with only a few holds barred to protect the slightly less than innocent, the authors reveal the best of their stories from the last 50 years. It would be impossible to produce a book like this...
Lessons from Legends
12 Hall of Fame Coaches on Leadership, Life, and Leaving a Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Lessons from Legends may be the greatest collection of college football knowledge ever assembled. With over 260 years, 2,100 wins, 95 conference titles, and 13 National Championships of combined coaching experience, any football fan, coach, or player can learn from the wealth of wisdom contained...
The Worst of Friends
The Betrayal of Joe Mercer
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Before the Thai millions and Abu Dhabi billions, Manchester City was always a club that attracted fierce controversy.
July 1965: Manchester City are on the scrapheap, managerless and languishing in Second Division mediocrity. Desperate to reverse the club's fortunes, the board turns to Joe...
The Country of Football
Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Brazil has done much to shape football/soccer, but how has soccer shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work by historians and researchers from Brazil, the...
Bama Dynasty
The Crimson Tide's Road to College Football Immortality
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Since Nick Saban was hired as head coach at Alabama in 2007, the Crimson Tide have established a record of excellence that is unparalleled in college football's modern era. Featuring stunning action photography from all five championship campaigns and expert analysis from author Christopher Walsh,...
Connecticut Gridiron
Football Minor Leaguers of the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
This narrative history of minor league football teams in Connecticut in the 1960s and 1970s is based on extensive newspaper and periodical research and interviews with nearly 70 former players, broadcasters and journalists. Only a few players—like Marv Hubbard, Lou Piccone and Bob Tucker—made...