Football category: 4223 books
by Graham Betts
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The England Football Team is the oldest national football team in the world, playing their first official match against Scotland in 1872, resulting in a 0 – 0 draw. Over the next 140 years, the national side would play more than 900 matches and select nearly 1,200 players to represent their country....
Martyball
The Life and Triumphs of Marty Schottenheimer, the Coach Who Really Did Win It All
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
No coach in National Football League history endured more playoff heartache than Marty Schottenheimer. Despite racking up two hundred regular-season victories (only five coaches in the entire ninety-year history of the NFL ever won more games), Marty never reached the Super Bowl during his coaching...
I'll See You Out There
Arsenal, Manchester United and the Premier League's Greatest Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2022
The rivalry between Arsenal and Manchester United in the late 1990s and early 2000s was the greatest in English football history. It is the only time two teams have completely dominated the league for a decade. It was a mixture of the epic and the pathetic, with glorious football, hateful confrontations...
Lost In France
The Remarkable Life and Death of Leigh Roose, Football's First Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In 1914 one of Britain's most famous sportsmen went off to play his part in the First World War. Like millions of others, he would die. Unlike millions of others, nobody knew how or where. Until now. Lost in France is the true story of Leigh Roose: playboy, scholar, soldier and the finest goalkeeper...
Who's #1?
100-Plus Years of Controversial National Champions in College Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
There's nothing quite as controversial in American sports as college football's national championship, making it common fodder for talk around the water cooler as well as loftier debates among professional journalists in the sports pages. Walsh takes a comprehensive view of over a century of controversy,...
The Galloping Ghost
Red Grange, an American Football Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
In the 1920s four athletes defined American sports: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Red Grange. They were the country's first athletic pantheon, its Mount Rushmore, and for a few brief years Red Grange outshone them all. The Galloping Ghost tells the remarkable untold story of this fleet-footed...
Fergie Rises
How Britain's Greatest Football Manager Was Made At Aberdeen
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
When Sir Alex Ferguson retired at the end of the 2013 season, he was the most successful football manager Britain had ever seen, having won twice as many trophies as his nearest rival. But that success had not come easily. Thirty-five years previously he had arrived at the rain-swept training ground...
by Thomas Taw
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Third Lanark no longer exist. The only League champions in Britain ever to go bust. The end was ignominious: Third could not even afford to buy footballs. But once, they defied all the odds to become Scottish champions. Third Lanark was a club of proud origins, a proud history and a sad ending. Third...
by Vince Guerrieri
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
On November 2, 1895, the newly formed football team at Fremont High School journeyed to Sandusky to play its first game against Sandusky High School. It was the beginning of the second-oldest high school football rivalry in Ohio. Since then, the teams have met 106 times in the regular season and once...
Passeport Foot Solidaire 2015-2016
Guide pratique pour les jeunes footballers
Language: French
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Les informations et conseils nécessaires, afin d’éviter les erreurs et pièges du parcours sportifDes millions de filles et de garçons rêvent d’une carrière dans le football, mais la plupart n’ont pas le minimum d’informations nécessaires. Des centaines de milliers changent de club, de...
Reaching Higher
Mark Dantonio and the Rise of Michigan State Football
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
After winning 13 games in 2013 and 11 in 2014, Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio was anything but satisfied. Dantonio announced in the summer that his 2015 team’s motto would be, “reach higher.” The Spartans did just that. Behind quarterback Conner Cook and one of the nation’s top defenses,...
Forever Red
Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
On any given workday, any little thing might send Steve Smith’s thoughts spinning back to Saturday—last Saturday, Saturday two weeks ago, Saturday two years ago, back into the thrilling minutiae of game day—until reality reminds him: this is not how well-adjusted adults act. Steve Smith is not...
Game of My Life Auburn Tigers
Memorable Stories of Tigers Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
What creates a championship team? Spirit, determination, and a legacy that refuses to die. Game of My Life Auburn Tigers is a collection of the greatest Tigers moments from past and present as seen through the eyes of the players themselves. In this newly-updated collection, Mark Murphy has brought...
The Golden Boot
Football's Top Scorers
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
In 1888, Englands Football league came into being and ever since a player has been recognised each year for the highest number of goals scored in the league, First Division or Premier League. The first was John Goodall of Preston North End, with 21 goals, the most recent, Didier Drogba, with 29. The...