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Author: Tim Bradford
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2006-08-03
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 014101556X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing everything about British football which you'll never find in Rothmans, this book covers every celebrity fan, pitch invasion and dodgy signing, as well as looking at murkier topics such as boardroom politics and match-fixing. Originally published: 2005.
Author: Saturday Comes When
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780140515756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive A-Z covers all aspects of the beautiful game, from 'abandoned matches' to 'Wrexham FC' via celebrity fans, mascots, pitch invasions and the Bosman ruling. Every club in the English League and the Scottish League has a separate entry, FIFA, UEFA, the PFA and the Football Supporters Association are covered, and the murkier areas of football such as boardroom politics and match-fixing are explored and explained with When Saturday Comes' inimitable mix of humour and intelligence.
Author: Daniel Gray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-10-06
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1472925122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOverpaid players. Sunday lunchtime kick-offs. Absurd ticket prices. Non-black boots. Football's menu of ills is long. Where has the joy gone? Why do we bother? Saturday, 3pm offers a glorious antidote. It is here to remind you that football can still sing to your heart. Warm, heartfelt and witty, here are fifty short essays of prose poetry dedicated to what is good in the game. These are not wallowing nostalgia; they are things that remain sweet and right: seeing a ground from the train, brackets on vidiprinters, ball hitting bar, Jimmy Armfield's voice, listening to the results in a traffic jam, football towns and autograph-hunters. This is fan culture at its finest, words to transport you somewhere else and identify with, words to hide away in a pub and luxuriate in. Saturday, 3pm is a book of love letters to football and a clarion call, helping us find the romance in the game all over again.
Author: Tim Lovejoy
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0099519593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTim Lovejoy loves football. Along with Helen Chamberlain, he presented Soccer AM for more than a decade. But why does Tim love football? What does he hate about football? And did he really once support Watford as a kid?
Author: James Montague
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Company
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781845963699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'When Friday Comes' is an insightful, humorous account of James Montague's journey through the Middle East, during which he encounters a rioting group of fanatical young Jews who do a passable line in mockney, and the Iraqi national team, who strip him and make him dance for them on their team bus.
Author: Mark Beech
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-09-18
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0312548184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe stirring story of the 1958 undefeated Army football team and the controversial coach who inspired Vince Lombardi. Combining the triumph of "The Junction Boys" with the heroics of "The Long Gray Line," Beech captures a unique period in the history of football and the military.
Author: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2009-02-24
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0307371220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Dazzling. . . . Profound and urgent" —Observer "A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence. . . . Everyone should read Saturday" —Financial Times Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane—ablaze with fire like a meteor—arcing across the London sky. Over the course of the following day, unease gathers about Perowne, as he moves among hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors who’ve taken to the streets in the aftermath of 9/11. A minor car accident brings him into confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive man, who to Perowne’s professional eye appears to be profoundly unwell. But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance at the Perowne family home that Henry’s earlier fears seem about to be realized. . .
Author: Sid Lowe
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: 2014-03-18
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1568584512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFear and Loathing in La Liga is the definitive history of the greatest rivalry in world sport: FC Barcelona vs. Real Madrid. It's Messi vs. Ronaldo, Guardiola vs. Mourinho, the nation against the state, freedom fighters vs. Franco's fascists, plus majestic goals and mesmerizing skills. It's the best two teams on the planet going head-to-head. It's more than a game. It's a war. It's El Cláco. Only, it's not quite that simple. Spanish soccer expert and historian Sid Lowe covers 100 years of rivalry, athletic beauty, and excellence. Fear and Loathing in La Liga is a nuanced, revisionist, and brilliantly informed history that goes beyond sport. Lowe weaves together this story of the rivalry with the history and culture of Spain, emphasizing that it is "never about just the soccer." With exclusive testimonies and astonishing anecdotes, he takes us inside this epic battle, including the wounds left by the Civil War, Madrid's golden age in the fifties when they won five European cups, Johan Cruyff's Barcelona Dream Team, the doomed Galáico experiment, and LuíFigo's "betrayal." By exploring the history, politics, culture, economics, and language -- while never forgetting the drama on the field -- Lowe demonstrates the relationship between these two soccer giants and reveals the true story behind their explosive rivalry.
Author: Carine Fabius
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Published: 2013-02
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0978500393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCo-narrated by the Baron Samedi, Vodou Spirit of Death, Saturday Comes is an atmospheric tale of love and hate; of Haiti's long-smoldering societal and class issues; of the magic, which reigns over the everyday lives of Haitian natives, and of the unseen forces that draw human beings together. It is a cold, wet, living nightmare when 12-year-old Maya St. Fleur finds herself on a makeshift boat bulging with other Haitians fleeing their island for a better life in the States. The sordid degradation and horror of that trip will mark her for life. The name of the one who has coerced her to leave the country and family she loves is Henri Chenet-perpetrator of unspeakable acts against her mother; blackmailer; and father of the boy who makes her heart beat with young love. Consumed with a desire for vengeance, she nevertheless vows to, one day, kill the son he cherishes above all else. Years later, she reconnects with her childhood love in Miami, and they fall for each other all over again. Will she be able to follow through with her dark, murderous plan hatched so long ago?a
Author: Paul Canoville
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2012-12-18
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0755364783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaul Canovilles story is one of extreme racist bigotry, shattering career-ending injury, a decline into drug abuse, battles against cancer, family tragedy and a determination to beat the odds. Canoville was Chelsea's first black first-team player, making his debut in 1982. But as he warmed up on the touchline, his own supporters began chanting 'We don't want the nigger!' The racist bile continued whenever he played, but within a year he had won over the terraces with his explosive pace and skill. Canoville fell out with the Chelsea board and moved to Reading in 1986, where injury suddenly ended his career at the age of 24. This started a downward spiral including the death of his baby in his arms, two bouts of life-threatening lymph cancer, drug abuse and homelessness. But Canoville fought back. In this explosive and shocking story, Paul finally explains why, despite everything, he is more positive than ever and has remained a fervent Chelsea fan all his life. This is a story of hope - eventually - overcoming adversity.
