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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 10 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 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 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

    £16.99   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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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