Author : David Clayton
Publisher : Carlton Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,50 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781787393356
"Our city, our story. Manchester City, one of England's most famous clubs, celebrate their 125th anniversary in 2019. City are now the benchmark for Premier League successs and theis beautifully illustrated book looks back at the Club's greatest moments, players and managers, right up the the new culture of football under inspirational coach Pep Guardiola.
Author : David Conn
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1623655773
Richer Than God is an authoritative, emotional, provocative account of Manchester City's takeover by Sheikh Mansour, culminating in their remarkable last minute Premier League title victory in May 2012. By placing the club's extraordinary current rise in the wider context of its patchy modern history, this is also the story of English football's transformation--from the battlegrounds of the 1980s to today's moneyed, seated, global entertainment. Conn is led to question the very nature of football clubs and being a supporter, the underlying values and running of what used to be called "the people's game." A labor of love, this powerfully told account of Manchester City's fall and rise, based on meticulous research over many years, and exclusive access and interviews with key figures, is written in the gripping, revelatory style Conn has made his trademark.
Author : Colin Mitchell
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Soccer teams
ISBN : 9781780094496
The History of English Football Clubs is a comprehensive chronicle of the 133 football clubs to have played in English leagues over the last 150 years. From current Premier League juggernauts Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea to League Two minnows like Bradford (2013 FA Cup finalists) and AFC Wimbledon. Each club has a proud history of its own, not to mention a legion of passionate, usually lifelong fans. Among these 133 are 41 clubs that lost their league status in years past, realising their supporters' worst fears. In his lively and engaging voice, Shoot magazine editor Colin Mitchell tells the fascinating stories of these English sporting institutions. Text is illuminated by rare historical images, while statistics detail important achievements, players and events. This intriguing, inclusive book is a must read for any football fan, revealing the legends and legacies behind every English club, whether brave, beloved, beleaguered or forgotten.
Author : Tony Matthews
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1445617374
This book explores the history of Manchester City players over the past 125 years.
Author : Tony Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1351709674
This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people around the world. The book explores how the world’s football codes - soccer, rugby league, rugby union, American, Australian, Canadian and Gaelic - developed as part of the commercialised leisure industry in the nineteenth century. Football, however and wherever it was played, was a product of the second industrial revolution, the rise of the mass media, and the spirit of the age of the masses. Important reading for students of sports studies, history, sociology, development and management, this book is also a valuable resource for scholars and academics involved in the study of football in all its forms, as well as an engrossing read for anyone interested in the early history of football.
Author : Simon Kuper
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1568588860
Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America dominate the sport internationally...and why do the Germans play with such an efficient but robotic style? These are questions every soccer aficionado has asked. Soccernomics answers them. Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology, and business to cast a new and entertaining light on how the game works, Soccernomics reveals the often surprisingly counterintuitive truths about soccer. An essential guide for the 2010 World Cup, Soccernomics is a new way of looking at the world's most popular game.
Author : Gary James
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category : Manchester (England)
ISBN : 9780955812705
The full story of football in Manchester covering the growth of the game and the region's clubs. This is a fascinating story and reveals, for the first time, the true formation date of Manchester United, the amazing story of Manchester Central, and the unjust banning of Manchester's first truly great side (City).
Author : Mark Metcalf
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1445618605
A fascinating insight the formation of the Football League, including the discovery of who really scored the first-ever League goal.
Author : Guillem Balague
Publisher : Seven Dials
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1409143767
'A must-read for anyone who's doubted Pep's influence, from handing the power to Barça's homegrown crop to never betraying his childhood romanticism of the game Four Four Two 'Balague's insightful biography presents Guardiola as a relentless perfectionist - a man obsessed with the minutiae of football, often unable to switch off' SPORT This fully updated edition of the international bestseller includes Manchester City's incredible 2017-18 league triumph Pep Guardiola is the most successful and sought-after football coach in the world. After being appointed first-team manager in 2008, he transformed Barcelona into arguably the greatest club side of all time, winning thirteen trophies in four years, and he won the Double twice in his three years in charge of Bayern Munich. He then faced his biggest challenge yet when he joined Manchester City in 2016: to turn them into a team that consistently wins in the most difficult of leagues and a regular challenger in the Champions League. But in only his second year at the club, he had turned a good side into memorable one, leading them to the Premier League title in record-breaking style . . . and doing it the Guardiola way. Guillem Balagué has followed Pep's career from the outset and has had direct access to the man and his inner circle for this updated edition. This then is the definitive portrait of Pep Guardiola and his relentless pursuit of footballing perfection.
Author : Jonathan Wilson
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1568589263
"An outstanding work the [soccer] book of the decade." -- Sunday Business Post Inverting the Pyramid is a pioneering soccer book that chronicles the evolution of soccer tactics and the lives of the itinerant coaching geniuses who have spread their distinctive styles across the globe. Through Jonathan Wilson's brilliant historical detective work we learn how the South Americans shrugged off the British colonial order to add their own finesse to the game; how the Europeans harnessed individual technique and built it into a team structure; how the game once featured five forwards up front, while now a lone striker is not uncommon. Inverting the Pyramid provides a definitive understanding of the tactical genius of modern-day Barcelona, for the first time showing how their style of play developed from Dutch "Total Football," which itself was an evolution of the Scottish passing game invented by Queens Park in the 1870s and taken on by Tottenham Hotspur in the 1930s. Inverting the Pyramid has been called the "Big Daddy" (Zonal Marking) of soccer tactics books; it is essential for any coach, fan, player, or fantasy manager of the beautiful game.
