Football Soccer category: 2112 books
The Wenger Revolution
Twenty Years of Arsenal
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Arsène Wenger is leaving Arsenal at the end of the 2018 season. The Wenger Revolution is a celebration of his first twenty years with the club.
In September 1996 a Frenchman, so little known in English football that fans asked "Arsène Who?†?, walked into Arsenal. In the subsequent...
by Simon Goodyear
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2011
Full of fans memoires from the past, Villa related poems, historical facts, a bit of trivia, some one-liners, a few original photographs and some excellent stories from a number of former Villa players and a few celebrities, this is an informative book that all Villa fans (and football fans in general),...
Ta Ra Fergie
The Legacy of the World's Greatest Football Manager
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
The story of United from a fan's perspective, covering Alex Ferguson's reignIn December 1989, United fanatic Pete Molyneux raised a banner calling for Alex Ferguson's head, sparking the biggest protest in Old Trafford's 100 years. For manager and supporter alike it was their darkest hour. Pete never...
by Bob MacCallum
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
A sporting Hall of Fame is a rather American institution but Rangers became one of the first football clubs (if not the first one) in Britain to set up its own Hall of Fame to honour the greatest figures from its past. The clubs owner, Sir David Murray, established the Hall of Fame in 2000 as a way of...
There's Only One Sauzee
When Le God Graced Easter Road
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
When Alex McLeish persuaded European legend Franck Sauzée to sign for Hibernian Football Club in February 1999, it was the club's biggest coup since the signing of George Best. Many people questioned the Gallic Great's motivations, afraid that he was merely coming to pick up his salary and quietly...
Follow, Follow
Classic Rangers Old Firm Clashes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
For more than 120 years, Rangers and Celtic have vied for supremacy in one of the world's sporting hotbeds. The rivalry between the two teams is among the fiercest anywhere in sport, making an Old Firm derby much more than a football game. Controversy is rarely far away when the Glasgow giants meet,...
by Mike Prestage
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
WHEN Manchester United's directors appointed Matt Busby manager in 1945 they made the most significant decision in the club's history. In his first six years in charge, United never finished lower than fourth in the top flight and won the FA Cup in 1948. In 1952 they secured their first League title...
Reliving the Dream
The Triumph and Tears of Manchester United's 1968 European Cup Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Manchester United are one of the biggest football clubs in the world. Their fame has spread to the most remote corners on earth. The legend grew out of one man's obsession with taking his club to the pinnacle of the European game. Matt Busby was a visionary as well as an exceptional manager, and he...
The Gooners Quiz Book
1,000 Questions on Arsenal Football Club
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Will you do the Gooners proud as you display an impressive knowledge of your favourite club, Arsenal, or will you instead prove yourself to be a complete goon, as trip over your own feet in search of the answers to the 1,000 cunning questions in this quiz book? Covering every aspect of the club’s history...
Old Big 'Ead
The Wit & Wisdom of Brian Clough
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
He’ s British football’ s philosopher manqué . The most successful England manager we never had and a genuine footballing legend. To many, an outspoken working class hero. To others – mainly his targets – he was a bolshy northern gobshite. Never less than opinionated, often controversial...
by Luis Villarejo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 13, 2013
«El gol es el orgasmo del fútbol», escribió Eduardo Galeano. El escritor uruguayo no se quedó ahí. Según Galeano, cuando se marca un gol: «la multitud delira y el estadio se olvida de que es cemento y se desprende de la tierra y se va al aire». Hay goles que cambian la historia y que se incorporan...
Thirty-One Nil
On the Road With Football's Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
In a tiny, decaying aluminium smelting town in southern Tajikistan, a short drive from a raging war zone, Afghanistan take on Palestine in the first Asian qualifier for 2014's World Cup in Brazil. Every player on both teams is risking something by playing: their careers, their families, even their...
Manchester United 1907-11
The First Halcyon Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Manchester United may be world famous today, but back in 1907 the club had yet to win either the League Championship or the FA Cup. Things were to change dramatically over the following four seasons, during which time the club moved to Old Trafford under the management of Ernest Mangnall, and captured...
Highs, Lows & Bakayokos
Everton in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
The 1990s, what a time to be an Evertonian! Brushes with relegation, financial ups and downs, a club drifting without purpose; it was a decade that saw Everton fall off the pace, abandoning the club's long-held position as a member of English football's elite. Highs, Lows & Bakayokos explores this trans-formative...