Football category: 4223 books
The Sheff Wed Quiz Book
250 Questions on the History and Players
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Do you support Sheffield Wednesday Football Club? Have you attended every match and followed their progress throughout the season? Are you familiar with the history of this popular team? If you answered yes to any of these questions this quiz book is for you.With so many fascinating facts about The Owls...
by Geoff Tibballs
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Liverpool Football Club is rarely out of the news and always is the subject of interest from in and out of the world of football. From Kenny Dalglish, Alan Hansen and Graeme Souness through Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Jamie Redknapp to Jamie Carragher, Steven Gerrard and John Henry, few clubs can...
by Graham Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Barcelona are the greatest football team in the world, the greatest for a generation and possibly the greatest of all time.This is the untold inside story of how the best and most loved football team in the world came to redefine how the game is played.We start with the 2011 Champions League final...
by Ciaran Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
His once glowing olive complexion was dull, and bags hung heavily under his eyes. With his enthusiasm for football seemingly eroded, José Mourinho’s tumultuous three-year reign as Real Madrid manager came to an end. The Special One had seemingly lost his stardust as he saw his side limp out in...
by Clive Batty
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Who does Jose Mourinho think he is? In his short time in English football, he's put almost everybody's nose out of joint with his sharp tongue. He described himself as 'the special one', then called Arsene Wenger a 'voyeur'. He was banned by UEFA for criticising referee Anders Frisk, who subsequently...
The Unbroken Line
The Untold Story of Gridiron Greats and Their Struggle to Save Professional Football
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The Unbroken Line is the riveting story of how truly heartless the business of professional football was and is from the poor pension plans and inadequate medical benefits to the greed of union leadership which the authors argue takes advantage of and turns its back on the very individuals who make...
by Dougie Brimson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Football Hooliganism, so long regarded as the English Disease, is rife throughout the European game. Yet, while the English scene has been well documented, no one has ever exposed the extent to which the hooligan problem has come to infect the game on the Continent. Until now.
ULTRAS
The A-Z of Europes Most Feared Soccer Hooligans
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
They used to call it the English disease. Football Hooliganism was rampant on the terraces of English clubs through the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s and is still very much alive today but on a different level. Over the last decade Europe's football clubs have took on the mantle and brought new levels of...
Behind the Curtain
Football in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
From the war-ravaged streets of Sarajevo, where turning up for training involved dodging snipers' bullets, to the crumbling splendour of Budapest's Bozsik Stadium, where the likes of Puskás and Kocsis masterminded the fall of England, the landscape of Eastern Europe has changed immeasurably since...
The European Game
An Adventure to Explore Football on the Continent and its Methods for Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
The European Game is an adventure. Over three months Dan Fieldsend travelled the continent discovering the methods for success used at some of the biggest clubs in Europe, from Ajax and Juventus, to Feyenoord, Inter Milan, Bayern Munch, Benfica, Athletic Bilbao and many more. At each institution he...
World in Motion
The Inside Story of Italia '90
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Italia '90 was the best and worst of World Cups. It made a global star of England's inspirational Paul Gascoigne and gave fresh confidence to English football but it was also the lowest- scoring of all World Cups, leading directly to the back-pass ban that transformed the sport. World In Motion travels...
Arsenal All 4-1
A Guidebook to an Historic Season Straight from Highbury's Gooner Grapevine
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The 2003-04 football season was a landmark in the Gunners' already illustrious history. Consolation for the Arsenal's costly Cup exits could come in the form of an achievement the like of which might never again be repeated. as they remained undefeated in the Premiership right to the end of a triumphant...
On the Brink
A Journey Through English Football's North West
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
As the days became shorter and the nights darker, Simon Hughes began a journey through the country's most successful football region during the winter of the 2016/17 English season. Starting in Carlisle and heading south, Hughes went through Barrow, Morecambe and towards the Fylde coast. He trekked...
Red Rebels
The Glazers and the FC Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
In 2004, Manchester United could proclaim itself the richest football club in the world, and boasted global commercial appeal alongside more than a decade of success on the pitch. In early 2005, American businessman Malcolm Glazer targeted a leveraged takeover of the club, and it looked set to be...