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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 74 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book A People
    A People's History of Football - by Mickael Correia

    £16.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780745346861 | ISBN 10: 0745346863

    A unique people's history of football, providing a global and diverse perspective from its origins to the present day.  'A fascinating journey through the game's history [as] a vehicle of change' Shaka Hislop  'Correia takes us around ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Accidental Footballer by Pat Nevin
    The Accidental Footballer - by Pat Nevin

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913183387 | ISBN 10: 1913183386

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  ‘A heroic outsider – a pleasure to read.’ – The Guardian  ‘A fulsome evocation of football before the Premier League.’ – The i  ‘Such a good storyteller... joyous.’ – Financial ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Roaring Red Front: The World
    The Roaring Red Front: The World's Top Left-Wing Clubs - by Stewart McGill and Vince Raison

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781801501446 | ISBN 10: 1801501440

    With the world turning rightwards and democracy looking at its most precarious since the 1930s, the emergence of a global network of left-wing, anti-fascist and anti-racist football fans has been one of the few shining lights in dark times. Some supp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scheisse! We
    Scheisse! We're Going Up! The Unexpected Rise of Berlin's Rebel Football Club - by Kit Holden

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780715654439 | ISBN 10: 0715654438

    CLUB ON THE RISE. A CITY IN FLUX. THIS IS UNION BERLIN.  No football club in the world has fans like 1. FC Union Berlin. The underdogs from East Berlin have stuck it to the Stasi, built their own stadium and even given blood to save their club. B ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Woman
    A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Football - by Suzanne Wrack

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783352159 | ISBN 10: 1783352159

    The inspirational, agenda-changing story of women’s football around the world.   A Woman’s Game explores the history of women’s football from the Victorian era – with players in high-heeled boots – to the present day. It is the story ... more

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  • Cover image of book Your Show by Ashley Hickson-Lovence
    Your Show - by Ashley Hickson-Lovence

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571366798 | ISBN 10: 0571366791

    The brilliant novelisation of the life of Uriah Rennie, the Premier League’s first and only Black referee.  From Jamaica to Sheffield to the recently formed Premier League, Uri rises through the ranks as a referee, making it to the the high ... more

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  • Cover image of book A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game by Calum Jacobs
    A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game - by Calum Jacobs

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529118704 | ISBN 10: 1529118700

    "A New Formation is quite simply one of the most important football books ever written. What we often like to imagine as the history of football has, for the most part, been written entirely through the white male gaze. In this collection of essays A ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Life by Megan Rapinoe
    One Life - by Megan Rapinoe

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781984881182 | ISBN 10: 1984881183

    An instant New York Times bestseller!   Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women’s World Cup champion, reveals for the first time her life both on and off the field. Guided by her personal journey into social justice, brimmin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Klopp: My Liverpool Romance by Anthony Quinn
    Klopp: My Liverpool Romance - by Anthony Quinn

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571364978 | ISBN 10: 0571364977

    As featured in the Guardian's Biggest Books of Autumn 2020  In the first book by a British writer about this extraordinary football manager, lifelong Liverpool fan Anthony Quinn has crafted a uniquely revealing love-letter to Jurgen Klopp.  In e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Football Without Borders: The Lives and Times of a Refugee Football Club by Chris Allen
    Football Without Borders: The Lives and Times of a Refugee Football Club - by Chris Allen

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838346805 | ISBN 10: 1838346805

    Football Without Borders is the story of one man's search for the soul of football.  Having become disillusioned with the corporatisation of top-level football in the early 1990s, Chris Allen embarks on a love affair with non-league football.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Football
    Football's Black Pioneers: The Stories of the First Black Players to Represent the 92 League Clubs - by Bill Hern and David Gleave

    £16.00   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781999900854 | ISBN 10: 1999900855

    A new perspective on the lives, careers and experiences of groundbreaking black footballers in England.  Ninety-two chapters tell the unique stories of the first black footballers to play for each of the English Football League clubs. Four years ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jurgen Klopp: The Biography by Elmar Neveling
    Jurgen Klopp: The Biography - by Elmar Neveling

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529109252 | ISBN 10: 1529109256

    Updated to include the Premier League Victory 2020."It is the intensity of the football, of how the people live football in Liverpool, all the Liverpool fans around the world. It is not a normal club, it is a special club."(Jurgen Klopp) Jürgen K ... more

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  • Cover image of book Different Class: Fashion, Football & Funk - The Story of Laurie Cunningham by Dermot Kavanagh
    Different Class: Fashion, Football & Funk - The Story of Laurie Cunningham - by Dermot Kavanagh

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783527373 | ISBN 10: 1783527374

    A biography of England's first professional black footballer, who represented Leyton Orient, West Bromwich Albion and became the first Englishman to play for Real Madrid.  Shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the British Sports Book Award ... more

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  • Cover image of book Numero 6: Reliving a Historic Year Following Liverpool Football Club by The Anfield Wrap, edited by Josh Sexton
    Numero 6: Reliving a Historic Year Following Liverpool Football Club - by The Anfield Wrap, edited by Josh Sexton

    £14.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781909245990 | ISBN 10: 1909245992

    Numero 6 relives an unforgettable and historic year for Liverpool Football Club. A year of inexorable hope, unprecedented success and European adventure; where domestic disappointment was swiftly followed by incredible, dramatic triumphs on the highe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Salah - King of The Kop by Frank Worrall
    Salah - King of The Kop - by Frank Worrall

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781789460117 | ISBN 10: 1789460115

    This is the story of the new King of the Kop.   When Mohamed Salah signed for Liverpool from Rome in 2017, his record fee was initially greeted with some scepticism. While he'd been singled out as a future star back in Egypt, and performed wel ... more

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  • Cover image of book Soccer Vs. The State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics by Gabriel Kuhn
    Soccer Vs. The State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics - by Gabriel Kuhn

    £18.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781629635729 | ISBN 10: 1629635723

    Soccer has turned into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Professionalism and commercialization dominate its global image. Yet the game retains a rebellious side, maybe more so than any other sport co-opted by moneymakers and corrupt politicians. From ... more

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  • Cover image of book Football Leaks: Uncovering the Dirty Deals Behind the Beautiful Game by Rafael Buschmann and Michael Wulzinger
    Football Leaks: Uncovering the Dirty Deals Behind the Beautiful Game - by Rafael Buschmann and Michael Wulzinger

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783351404 | ISBN 10: 1783351403

    One anonymous football fan. 18.6 million confidential documents. This is the explosive story of the biggest leak in sporting history – and the shady underworld of modern football.   In 2016, a whistle-blower known only as ‘John’ st ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under the Lights and In the Dark: Untold Stories of Women
    Under the Lights and In the Dark: Untold Stories of Women's Soccer - by Gwendolyn Oxenham

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785783197 | ISBN 10: 178578319x

    Under the Lights and In the Dark takes an unprecedented look inside the lives of professional football players around the world – from precarious positions in underfunded teams and leagues, to sold-out stadiums and bright lights. Award-winning film ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fall of the House of Fifa by David Conn
    The Fall of the House of Fifa - by David Conn

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780224100458 | ISBN 10: 0224100459

    The Fall of the House of Fifa is the definitive story of Fifa's rise - and the most spectacular fall sport has ever seen.   1904: 'No person should be allowed to arrange matches for personal profit' - Fifa congress   A century later: 'F ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Natural by Ross Raisin
    A Natural - by Ross Raisin

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784702786 | ISBN 10: 1784702781

    Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened.   The Premier League academy of his boyhood has let him go. At n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Play Like a Girl: How a Soccer School in Kenya
    Play Like a Girl: How a Soccer School in Kenya's Slums Started a Revolution - by Ellie Roscher

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781632280572 | ISBN 10: 1632280574

    Growing up and living in Kibera, Kenya, Abdul Kassim was well aware of the disproportionate number of challenges faced by women due to the extreme gender inequalities that persist in the slums. After being raised by his aunts, mother, and grandmother ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Win: Lessons from the Premier League by Anon
    How to Win: Lessons from the Premier League - by Anon

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783351244 | ISBN 10: 1783351241

    What separates the good from the truly great players? How do football managers get the best out of their team?   How do you come back from a crushing defeat to win?   In How to Win The Secret Footballer teams up with The Secret Psych ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Book of Liverpool FC by Geoff Tibballs
    The Little Book of Liverpool FC - by Geoff Tibballs

    £5.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780979663 | ISBN 10: 1780979665

    Revised and updated, in a new format for the 2017-18 season, The Little Book of Liverpool FC celebrates the club's continued success at home and abroad.  From Kenny Dalglish, Alan Hansen and Graeme Souness through Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler ... more

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  • Cover image of book Football
    Football's Coming Out: Life As a Gay Fan and Player - by Neil Beasley

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780992658564 | ISBN 10: 099265856x

    Being gay in football - as fan or player - is to risk the homophobia that has run through the game for years. But things are changing. Gradually a few brave professional players have come out. And someone like Neil Beasley now feels able to tell his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under the Lights and in the Dark: Untold Stories of Women
    Under the Lights and in the Dark: Untold Stories of Women's Soccer - by Gwendolyn Oxenham

    £14.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785781537 | ISBN 10: 1785781537

    In 2004 football author, journalist and award-winning documentary maker Gwendolyn Oxenham played futebol feminino for Santos FC, Brazil. The team hitchhiked to practice, shared their field with a horse and wore hand-me-downs from the men’s team. I ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ring of Fire: Liverpool into the 21st Century: The Players
    Ring of Fire: Liverpool into the 21st Century: The Players' Stories - by Simon Hughes

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780552172738 | ISBN 10: 0552172731

    Following the success of Simon Hughes’ Red Machine and Men in White Suits, books which depicted Liverpool FC’s domination during the 1980s and its subsequent fall in the 1990s, Ring of Fire focuses on the 2000s and the primary characters who prop ... more

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  • Cover image of book And the Sun Shines Now: How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain by Adrian Tempany
    And the Sun Shines Now: How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain - by Adrian Tempany

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571295128 | ISBN 10: 0571295126

    On 15 April 1989, 96 people were fatally injured on a football terrace at an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield. The Hillsborough disaster was broadcast live on the BBC; it left millions of people traumatised, and English football in ruins.   And the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hillsborough Voices: The Real Story Told by the People Themselves by Kevin Sampson, in association with the Hillsborough Justice Campaign
    Hillsborough Voices: The Real Story Told by the People Themselves - by Kevin Sampson, in association with the Hillsborough Justice Campaign

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780091955625 | ISBN 10: 0091955629

    On 15 April 1989 the world witnessed one of the worst football disasters occur at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield: 96 people were crushed to death and another 766 injured in what later was admitted to be caused by a shocking failure by police. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Roar of the Lionesses: Women
    The Roar of the Lionesses: Women's Football in England (Updated Edition) - by Carrie Dunn

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785311512 | ISBN 10: 1785311514

    Millions watched the 2015 Women's World Cup as the England Lionesses roared in Canada, winning bronze. Their fighting spirit and fabulous skill captured the fascination of the entire country as their campaign unfolded in the small hours of the 2015 s ... more

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  • Cover image of book 61 Minutes in Munich: The Story of Liverpool FC
    61 Minutes in Munich: The Story of Liverpool FC's First Black Footballer - by Howard Gayle

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909245396 | ISBN 10: 1909245399

    In April 1981, Howard Gayle was summoned from the substitutes’ bench and sent on to play for Liverpool in the second leg of a European Cup semi-final at German champions Bayern Munich.   The previous October, by filling the same role at Manc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women
    Women's Football: The Secret History - by Tim Tate

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782197720 | ISBN 10: 1782197729

    Boxing Day 1920, and 53,000 men, women and children pack inside Goodison Park. The extraordinary crowds have come to watch two local rivals play a match for charity. But this is no ordinary charity fixture. Eleven of the players are international cel ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hope: My Life in Football by Hope Powell
    Hope: My Life in Football - by Hope Powell

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472925565 | ISBN 10: 1472925564

    Hope Powell was a skinny little black girl from South London who only ever wanted to play football. Brought up in a violent home, she was actively discouraged from playing. The original Bend It Like Beckham girl, this is the amazing story of how a ki ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lost Boys: Inside Football
    The Lost Boys: Inside Football's Slave Trade - by Ed Hawkins

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472914965 | ISBN 10: 1472914961

    From South America and Africa, kids as young as 13 are leaving poverty-stricken families for a new life in Europe, having been sold the vision of untold riches and the trappings of professional football. This is football's slave trade – the beautif ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Footballer: Access All Areas by The Secret Footballer
    The Secret Footballer: Access All Areas - by The Secret Footballer

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783350605 | ISBN 10: 1783350601

    Forgive your enemies, they say. Keep their addresses and keep notes, I say.   In Access All Areas, you'll learn how to buy three Premier League points for just GBP25,000, what it's really like to face a Football Association disciplinary hearing, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Topical Times for These Times: A Book of Liverpool Football by Ken Grant
    The Topical Times for These Times: A Book of Liverpool Football - by Ken Grant

    £35.00   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780993232381 | ISBN 10: 0993232388

    Since the 1980’s Ken Grant has photographed football culture in Liverpool, his home city. From youth games and local bar teams playing in district park leagues, to the weekly rituals of match days at Liverpool and Everton, he has photographed the spo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hillsborough: The Truth (Updated edition) by Phil Scraton
    Hillsborough: The Truth (Updated edition) - by Phil Scraton

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910948019 | ISBN 10: 1910948012

    This is the definitive, unique account of the disaster in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. It details the appalling treatment endured by the bereaved and survivors in the immediate aftermath, t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hillsborough Disaster: In Their Own Words by Mike Nicholson
    The Hillsborough Disaster: In Their Own Words - by Mike Nicholson

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781445634869 | ISBN 10: 1445634864

    "Hillsborough will be remembered as one of the biggest injustices of the twentieth century, because those who were there to protect the public turned against them in their hour of need. The power of print media was at its absolute peak at that time, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dirty Game: Uncovering the Scandal at FIFA by Andrew Jennings
    The Dirty Game: Uncovering the Scandal at FIFA - by Andrew Jennings

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784754112 | ISBN 10: 1784754110

    In The Dirty Game, investigative reporter and BBC Panorama presenter Andrew Jennings, who has been heralded around the world for his decade-long pursuit of this story, uncovers the eye-watering level of fraud and criminal activity at the heart of FIF ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Story by Steven Gerrard
    My Story - by Steven Gerrard

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781405924412 | ISBN 10: 1405924411

    Steven Gerrard - legendary captain of Liverpool and England - tells the story of the highs and lows of a twenty-year career at the top of English and world football.  As the only player ever to have scored in a FA cup final, a league cup final, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup by Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert
    The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup - by Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781471149375 | ISBN 10: 1471149374

    When FIFA awarded the tiny desert state of Qatar the rights to host the 2022 World Cup, the news was greeted with disbelief and allegations of corruption. How had a country with almost no football infrastructure or tradition, a high terror risk and s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Footballer
    The Secret Footballer's Guide to the Modern Game - by The Secret Footballer

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783350841 | ISBN 10: 1783350849

    The outspoken anonymous author is back with the ultimate book to challenge conventional footballing wisdom.  With his trademark wit, intelligence and candour, the Secret Footballer will guide you through formations, tactics, mind games and ever ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beating Berlusconi! by John Graham Davies
    Beating Berlusconi! - by John Graham Davies

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780953182619 | ISBN 10: 0953182614

    Despite threats from his wife, in May 2005 Kenny Noonan travels to Istanbul to watch Liverpool play AC Milan in the Champions League Final. He carries the scars of thirty years as a football fan and a Liverpudlian: the 1981 riots, the Thatcher years, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pitch Black: The Story of Black British Footballers by Emy Onuora
    Pitch Black: The Story of Black British Footballers - by Emy Onuora

    £16.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849548144 | ISBN 10: 1849548145

    When Paul Canoville took to the pitch for Chelsea in 1982, he was prepared for abuse. When the monkey chanting and the banana throwing started, he wasn't surprised. He wasn't prepared, however, for the abuse to be coming from his own side.   C ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire by Martin Fletcher
    Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire - by Martin Fletcher

    £16.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472920164 | ISBN 10: 1472920163

    On May 11 1985, fifty-six people died in a devastating fire at Bradford City's old Valley Parade ground. It was truly horrific, a startling story – and wholly avoidable – but it had only the briefest of inquiries, and it seemed its lessons were not l ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football by David Goldblatt
    The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football - by David Goldblatt

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241955260 | ISBN 10: 0241955262

    In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very centre of our popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment industry. What does it mean when football becomes so ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Three Degrees: The Men Who Changed British Football Forever by Paul Rees
    The Three Degrees: The Men Who Changed British Football Forever - by Paul Rees

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472119261 | ISBN 10: 1472119266

    The Dark Side of British Football in the 1970s  When Cyrille Regis became one of the first black players to be selected for the full England team, he was sent a package in the mail. Inside it was a silver bullet and a note that read: 'You'll ge ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Book of Everton by Becky Tallentire
    The Little Book of Everton - by Becky Tallentire

    £4.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780975856 | ISBN 10: 1780975856

    Traditionally one of the Big Five English football clubs, although Everton haven't won many trophies in recent years, they are currently undergoing a revival thanks to the management of David Moyes and leadership of Bill Kenwright, the club's owner. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shocking Brazil: Six Games That Shook the World Cup by Fernando Duarte
    Shocking Brazil: Six Games That Shook the World Cup - by Fernando Duarte

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781909715165 | ISBN 10: 1909715166

    The Brazilian game has become synonymous with excellence, success and beautiful, irresistible football. Supporters from every part of the globe are able to recount joyful tales about Brazil’s unmatched achievements, especially ones of World Cup glory ... more

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  • Cover image of book Punk Football: The Rise of Fan Ownership in English Football by Jim Keoghan
    Punk Football: The Rise of Fan Ownership in English Football - by Jim Keoghan

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781909626362 | ISBN 10: 1909626368

    Punk Football tells the story of how supporters have made the incredible journey from the terraces to the boardroom. Initially intrigued by the rise of AFC Wimbledon, the supporter-owned club set up after Wimbledon FC's relocation to Milton Keynes, J ... more

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  • Cover image of book Futebol Nation: A Footballing History of Brazil by David Goldblatt
    Futebol Nation: A Footballing History of Brazil - by David Goldblatt

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241969779 | ISBN 10: 0241969778

    No nation has so closely aligned its national identity with playing and watching football as Brazil.   Football is regarded as a thing of joy, its yellow shirts a delightful amalgam of sport and art, entwined with its cultures of music and re ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pirates, Punks & Politics FC St. Pauli: Falling in Love with a Radical Football Club by Nick Davidson
    Pirates, Punks & Politics FC St. Pauli: Falling in Love with a Radical Football Club - by Nick Davidson

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781907524417 | ISBN 10: 190752441x

    FC Sankt Pauli – the football club in the red-light district of Hamburg; a transvestite chairman; terraces populated by punks, pimps and prostitutes; a club run by anarchists, united under the skull and crossbones flag. This is the cliché that has be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life by Alex Bellos
    Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life - by Alex Bellos

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408854167 | ISBN 10: 1408854163

    The Brazilian football team is one of the wonders of the modern world and legendary names like Pelé, Garrincha and Ronaldo inspire awe in football-lovers everywhere. But in Latin America’s largest country, football also symbolises racial harmony, the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tales from the Secret Footballer by The  Secret Footballer
    Tales from the Secret Footballer - by The Secret Footballer

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781783350087 | ISBN 10: 1783350083

    From the bestselling author of I am the Secret Footballer   FOOTBALL'S BIGGEST CHARACTERS TELL IT LIKE IT IS   The Secret Footballer is back. And this time his mates speak out too.   Players, agents, coaches and managers give you ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Am The Secret Footballer: Lifting the Lid on the Beautiful Game by Anonymous
    I Am The Secret Footballer: Lifting the Lid on the Beautiful Game - by Anonymous

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781783350049 | ISBN 10: 1783350040

    This updated edition of the bestselling and wildly popular I Am the Secret Footballer features a new introduction and an additional chapter.   The anonymous writer of The Guardian's "Secret Footballer" column gives Premiere League fans an insider' ... more

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  • Cover image of book Does Your Rabbi Know You
    Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here? - by Anthony Clavane

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857388148 | ISBN 10: 0857388142

    Ever since the children of penniless immigrants caught the train from Whitechapel to White Hart Lane – to be greeted with the refrain: ‘Does Your Rabbi Know You’re Here?’ – this forgotten tribe have helped to shape the Beautiful Game.   In tel ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Didi Man: My Love Affair with Liverpool by Dietmar Hamann
    The Didi Man: My Love Affair with Liverpool - by Dietmar Hamann

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780755362813 | ISBN 10: 0755362810

    A warm and highly entertaining account of Dietmar Hamman's personal story, The Didi Man was a Sunday Times bestseller on hardback publication.   Dietmar 'Didi' Hamann is a complete one-off. The foreigner with a Scouse accent. The German who n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Football: Those Were the Days by Captain William Featherstone-Dawes
    Football: Those Were the Days - by Captain William Featherstone-Dawes

    £9.99   hardback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781907554445 | ISBN 10: 1907554440

    In the good old days of association football there was no such thing as WAGs, the balls were made from rhino hide and players made their way to the ground by tram. And the rudest thing you could say to a referee was: “Hoy, referee! Do you need specta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tackling Life by Charlie Oatway
    Tackling Life - by Charlie Oatway

    £1.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780552161787 | ISBN 10: 0552161780

    Charlie Oatway was born into a family who were often in prison and always on the wrong side of the law. Unable to learn his lessons in school, Charlie was soon involved in petty crime and it seemed his life would follow that of his dad and uncles. He ... more

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  • Cover image of book Africa United: How Football Explains Africa by Steve Bloomfield
    Africa United: How Football Explains Africa - by Steve Bloomfield

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847676597 | ISBN 10: 1847676596

    A superb portrait of the divided continent of Africa, told through one fo the few things that unites it.   Football inspires competition and inflames passions nowhere as strongly as in Africa. Take the player born and raised in Congo who scored th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hammered by Mark Ward
    Hammered - by Mark Ward

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781843582724 | ISBN 10: 1843582724

    Mark Ward enjoyed all the trappings of success as one of the most popular and highly-rated right wingers in football. 'Wardy' proved an overnight sensation at Oldham and continued to be a star at West Ham, Man City and Everton before inspiring Birmin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Red Book of Liverpool FC by Darren Phillips
    The Little Red Book of Liverpool FC - by Darren Phillips

    £9.99   hardback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780752454412 | ISBN 10: 0752454412

    The Little Book of Liverpool FC – a book on the Reds like no other, packed with facts, stats, trivia, stories and legends. Liverpool, the most prolific trophy-winning club in the history of domestic and European football, has a rich and varied histor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
    Unseen Academicals - by Terry Pratchett

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780552153379 | ISBN 10: 0552153370

    Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else.   The prospect of the Big Match draws in a stre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Outcasts United: An American Town, A Refugee Team, and One Woman
    Outcasts United: An American Town, A Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference - by Warren St John

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007330799 | ISBN 10: 0007330790

    The incredible true story of a a football team in the United States made up of refugee children.  Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement centre in the 1990s, becoming home to scores of families ... more

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  • Cover image of book Carra: My Autobiography by Jamie Carragher
    Carra: My Autobiography - by Jamie Carragher

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780552157421 | ISBN 10: 0552157422

    For the Anfield faithful, Jamie Carragher represents everything that is great about Liverpool Football Club, prompting the Kop to sing ‘we all dream of a team of Carraghers’. The club’s vice-captain, longest-serving player and one of a select band of ... more

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  • Cover image of book More Than Just a Game: Football v Apartheid - The Most Important Football Story Ever Told by Chuck Korr and Marvin Close
    More Than Just a Game: Football v Apartheid - The Most Important Football Story Ever Told - by Chuck Korr and Marvin Close

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007302994 | ISBN 10: 0007302991

    "It is amazing to think that a game that people take for granted all around the world, was the very same game that gave a group of prisoners sanity - and in a way, gave us the resolve to carry on the struggle"(Anthony Suze, Robben Island Prisoner) ... more

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  • Cover image of book Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football by Jonathan Wilson
    Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football - by Jonathan Wilson

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780752879451 | ISBN 10: 0752879456

    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 Puskas and Kocsis masterminded the fall of England, the landscape o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Played in Liverpool: Charting the Heritage of a City at Play by Ray Physick
    Played in Liverpool: Charting the Heritage of a City at Play - by Ray Physick

    £14.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781850749905 | ISBN 10: 1850749906

    Becher's Brook at Aintree, the legendary Kop at Anfield, the 18th tee at Hoylake - just three hallowed Liverpool landmarks on the map of international sport. But sporting heritage on Merseyside permeates the entire region and its unique cultural lega ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach
    My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes - by Gary Imlach

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780224072687 | ISBN 10: 0224072684

    Stewart Imlach was an ordinary neighbourhood soccer star of his time. A brilliant winger who thrilled the crowd on Saturdays, then worked alongside them in the off-season; who represented Scotland in the 1958 World Cup and never received a cap for hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Football My Arse! - The Funniest Football Book You Will Ever Read by Ricky Tomlinson
    Football My Arse! - The Funniest Football Book You Will Ever Read - by Ricky Tomlinson

    £6.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780751537352 | ISBN 10: 0751537357

    'I have always collected football stories like other people collect stamps, and it's great to get this opportunity to stick them in a book.' From the bestseling author of Ricky comes this collection of hilarious anecdotes about football, with stories ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Football Explains the World by Franklin Foer
    How Football Explains the World - by Franklin Foer

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099492269 | ISBN 10: 0099492261

    As we all know, football is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It also provides a window into our world. In this remarkable book, American journalist and football fan Franklin Foer takes us on a striking tour through the worlds of football ... more

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  • Cover image of book It
    It's Not Your Leg Son... The Book of Shankly - by Compiled by Alex Murphy

    £5.00   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780954417741 | ISBN 10: 0954417747

    This humble son of Ayshire won the hearts and minds of football fans across the globe with his warmth, wit and wisdom. Here is a tribute to Bill Shankly in his own words...  "Brian Clough is worse than the rain in Manchester. At least God stops th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Football Against the Enemy by Simon Kuper
    Football Against the Enemy - by Simon Kuper

    £9.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780752848778 | ISBN 10: 0752848771

    Football is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It can start - or stop - wars, it can fuel revolutions or it can keep dictators in power.  Simon Kuper travelled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre eff ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everton Football Club 1878-1946 by John Rowlands
    Everton Football Club 1878-1946 - by John Rowlands

    £10.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780752422596 | ISBN 10: 0752422596

    This collection of original material and photographs charts the history of this proud and well-supported club, from its early days, when the tema was still playing at Stanley Park, through to 1946. It illustrates the highlights of the period of the c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Goodison Park Voices: Recollections of Supporters by David Paul
    Goodison Park Voices: Recollections of Supporters - by David Paul

    £9.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780752415482 | ISBN 10: 0752415484

    As one of the greatest clubs in the country, Everton FC has a past its fans can be proud of. This book collects the memories of those supporters, both young and old. It is not a complete history of the club, but a rich assortment of anecdotes as tol ... more

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