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The Alabama Crimson Tide's 2015-16 Championship Football Season
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
It was fitting that Alabama and Clemson put on one of college’s football’s greatest ever championship games on a magical January night in Glendale, Arizona, with a dazzling display of athleticism, power and heart. When it was done, the Crimson Tide emerged with a jaw-dropping 45-40 victory and...
The Rise of the Seminoles
FSU Football Under Bobby Bowden
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Rise of the Seminoles is the fairy-tale story of Florida State University football. From 197375, the football team at FSU had a combined record of 429. The next season, Bobby Bowden took over as head football coach and, over the next thirty-three years, led FSU to twenty-one bowl game wins...
Psychology in Football
Working with Elite and Professional Players
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
How can the skills of the sport psychologist be put to best use within a football club?
How can a sport psychologist help elite footballers perform at their maximum level?
In this groundbreaking guide to the role of the sport psychologist within elite and professional football, leading sport psychologist...
by Johnny Depot
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Are you ready for some football? This famous sentence has been the crying call for gamblers across the globe since Monday Night Football came to TV. The NFL is the sports bettor weakness, his heroine, if you will. Anyone who bets sports will tell you that the NFL is king. Just ask Vegas, where more...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Every football fan has heard Vince Lombardi’s famous adage: “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” The same is true of Knute Rockne’s exhortation to “Win one for the Gipper.” Quotes like these have become part of football’s lore.
Less well known is Alex Karras’s advice...
Fantasy Football Tips
201 Ways to Win Through Player Rankings, Cheat Sheets and Better Drafting
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
From the award winning author of Fantasy Football Guidebook (and three other fantasy football books) comes the ultimate step by step guide to success; including methods of drafting, ranking players, creating cheat sheets and drafting like an expert. Finally, an easy to use and understand book, with...
Past Time
Simulation Football Leagues, Living in the Past, and Learning to Love Football Again
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Author Ted Kluck found, online, a community of computer nerds and football enthusiasts so rooted in the past and so uninterested in the future that they have created algorithms and computer software that can accurately simulate football games, seasons, and careers using fields of data that already...
by Ray Dozier
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Since 1895, the University of Oklahoma football program has amassed some impressive numbers: seven national championships, 47 consecutive wins, 44 conference championships, 28 bowl wins, five Heisman Trophy winners, and more than 150 All-America players. In Legends of Oklahoma Sooners Football, Ray...
by Hay, Roy, Murray
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
A History of Football in Australia, written by Roy Hay and Bill Murray, is the fascinating story of the fastest growing sport in Australia and the ties it has to our culture and identity. In coming years football will continue to excite sports fans throughout Australia. The Socceroos will contest...
International Football Kits (True Colours)
The Illustrated Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
International Football Kits (True Colours) charts the evolving football strip design of the world's leading national football teams, from 1966 to the present day.
Guaranteed to bring back memories of your favourite team's kits and help you discover new ones, this groundbreaking book features...
The Global Football Industry
Marketing Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
In recent years, football’s status as "the world’s sport" has shown little sign of waning. From increasing participation at grassroots levels and to the highly lucrative media rights deals secured by the top elite clubs, the game appears to be thriving as it continues to excite and enthral...
Football and Community in the Global Context
Studies in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Football clubs across the world continue to embody many of the collective symbols, identifications and processes of connectivity which have long been associated with the notion of ‘community’. In recent years, however, the very term ‘community’ has become the focus of renewed interest within...
The Football Man
People & Passions in Soccer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
‘ Football matters, as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others… Football is inherent in the people… There is more eccentricity in deliberately disregarding it than in devoting a life to it. The way we play the game, organize it and reward it reflects the kind of community we are’
Written...
Global and Local Football
Politics and Europeanization on the Fringes of the EU
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local football culture help us to understand the powerful international forces at play within the modern game?
Based on long-term and detailed ethnographic...