Author : Barney Ronay
Publisher : Random House
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Soccer
ISBN : 0091913640
This football book provides everything that made the game fun to watch in the 60s, 70s and 80s. It includes features such as Worst Haircut, Most Ludicrous Hobby, Most Garish Tracksuit, Most Unconvincing 'Out on the Town' Moment, Tackiest House, and Most Contrived PR Stunt.
Author : Stuart Barnes
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2020-09-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781907524615
The Nationwide football annual is now in its 133rd year and is still the best value soccer yearbook in the market, living up to its billing as 'soccer's pocket encyclopedia'. As usual the book is packed full of information vital for the football fan; from team line-ups to international results; from international appearances and goalscorers to the sort of trivia to keep a pub quiz in questions for another 132 years!
Author : Ian Preece
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781472114945
The Independent's Best Sports Book of the Year, 2015 Christmas Day 1959 and legions of schoolboys up and down the country feverishly unwrapped the very first Topical Times Football Book. On the cover Bobby Charlton smacked a leather ball out of a pillar-box red background and, although this wasn't the first yearbook, it heralded the golden age of the Christmas football annual. As the sixties progressed, the shelves in Woolworth's and the local newsagent began to bulge with titles reflecting the expanding, exciting world of football - Charles Buchan's Soccer Gift Book nestled next to the International Football Book and the Midlands Soccer Annual. These annuals were educational and insightful, taking the reader into the changing rooms, the supporters' club lounges, and the manager's mind ahead of a tough season. Beautifully illustrated, they helped shape the football consciousness of a generation. In The Heyday of The Football Annual Ian Preece and Doug Cheeseman bottle the essence of these publications. They travel back in time to a world where Forfar Athletic and Doncaster Rovers had equal billing with Manchester United and Arsenal, where debate raged over the use of goal average, and Huddersfield v Carlisle was the main game on Match of the Day. Along the way, leading football writers Richard Williams, Jonathan Wilson, Patrick Collins and Derek Hammond, among others, share their memories - not only of 'soccer' annuals but of an era when the unveiling of Dundee's new stand was deemed worthy of a two-page spread, and Scunthorpe's pre-season tour to Ibiza merited a lengthy feature. This was a world where footballers grew chrysanthemums for a hobby, drank tea down the local café to pass the time, and Coventry City were the go-ahead club of the future. For better, and (certainly) for worse, it's a world long gone.
Author : Paul Gascoigne
Publisher : Simon & Schuster UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780857204486
Even people who don't know football know who 'Gazza' is. The man born as Paul John Gascoigne to a working-class family in the North-East has found headlines on the front pages almost as often as the back pages throughout his life, thanks in great part to his more than colourful lifestyle. But it is for his time as a footballer of the very highest order that Gazza's name will forever live in sporting history. During a career that spanned more than ten different clubs, among them Newcastle United, Tottenham, Lazio and Rangers, and which included countless unforgettable England performances, Gazza established himself as one of the sport's all-time greats: a master of skill, flair and invention like none that his country had produced before nor perhaps ever will again. Told in Gazza's own unique voice and fully illustrated with hundreds of photos from the moments that he feels defined his career,Glorious: My World, Football and Meis a celebration, offering an unrivalled insight into the mind of this greatest of footballers.
Author : Graham Betts
Publisher : G2. Records
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Soccer
ISBN : 9781909217126
Written by football fan and statistician Graham Betts, "The Little Book of Football Legends" is part of the fantastic "Legends of Sport" series featuring Football, Golf, Rugby, Cricket and Grand Prix. It is packed with 4 page profiles of 30 of the world's most admired and revered footballers. "The Little Book of Football Legends" includes key statistics about each legend, illustrated with some of the best known photographs of them together with a fascinating profile of their career. Featuring such greats as Pele, Maradona, Dalglish, Ronaldo and Ronaldinho, this is a great look at the legends of world football.
Author : Bill Murray
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Soccer
ISBN : 9780252067181
Known as much for the emotional outbursts and violence of its fans as for its own stars, soccer (or football, as it is known outside the United States) is a global game. Its international controlling body, FIFA, boasts more members than the United Nations. Bill Murray traces the growth of what during pre-industrial times was called "the simplest game" through its codification in the nineteenth century to the 1994 World Cup, held for the first time in the United States. Murray weaves the sport's growth into the culture and politics of the countries where it has been taken up, analyzing its reputation as a game that has seen more riots and on-field brawls than all other types of football combined. He vividly illustrates how soccer has become the world's most popular sport, one that has resisted the interference of politicians, dictators, and profiteers and - more recently - the demands of television, through which it has spread to virtually every corner of the globe. The World's Game will be entertaining and enlightening to anyone from the most avid, knowledgeable fan to those who merely hope to learn a little about the sport.
Author : Laurel Brake
Publisher : Academia Press
Page : 1059 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9038213409
A large-scale reference work covering the journalism industry in 19th-Century Britain.
Author : Rob Jovanovic
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780752873121
For your average 1960s or 70s schoolboy, the week was largely given over to amassing a football card collection, and later, the sticker annual. The cards were swapped with schoolmates, fought over, and more were purchased—yet somehow you still ended up with only the Birmingham City first team. In this history of the football card and sticker annual, Rob Jovanovic traces the history of the playing card right back to the golden age of the cigarette card, charting its development through the decades up to the modern-day sticker album. In doing so, the book provides a nostalgic, photographic history of the game.
Author : Clive Batty
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Soccer
ISBN : 9781909534872
10th edition of this popular, bright and quirky annual football records book. Crammed with records, facts, stats and amazing feats from the world's greatest game, The Vision Book of Football Records 2019 is the perfect Christmas present for football fans of all ages. It includes an entry on every English league team and all the Scottish SPL clubs plus the major European and world clubs from Brasil to Barcelona and an all-star squad of current and former football legends.
Author : Robert M. Ours
Publisher : Westholme Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
In Bowl Games: College Football's Greatest Tradition, historian Robert M. Ours shows how these games established college football as a national sport. Bowl games were also used as charity events and morale boosters during the Great Depression and both world wars, and were among the first public forums that challenged segregation in the South. In addition, Ours traces the steady march toward using bowls to determine a national championship as well as the increase in payouts. The book includes period photographs, year-by-year bowl game summaries, and a complete list of every major NCAA-sanctioned bowl played up to 2005.
