Pitch Invasion – Adidas, Puma and The Making of Modern Sport By Barbara Smit Ok strictly speaking this book isn’t exclusively a football book but the telling of a family story. That family is the Dassler family. Two brothers grew up, had a company they ran together, before splitting up & owning their own companies. […]
Posted on December 20th, 2010 by scott
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an international, professional Premier League superstar? Of course you have, we all have! But for a look at what it is like you need to buy this DVD. It tracks Everton & Australian star man Tim Cahill for half year in 2009. The production […]
Posted on December 18th, 2010 by scott
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Paul Le Guen: Enigma By Graham Spiers This book written by Times journalist Graham Spiers takes us through a year in the life Paul Le Guen will never forget or want to remember! It tells us of the meetings Paul had with Rangers to take over from Alex McLeish, his 1st day, his fascination with […]
Posted on December 5th, 2010 by scott
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El Diego by Diego Maradona Wonderful, erratic, untruthful & entertaining all words that describe both the man Diego Maradona & the man’s autobiography. He talks about his childhood, his big impact in the footballing world, his disappointment in his exclusion from the World Cup winning Argentine team of 1978, his bitterness at his Barca days, […]
Posted on November 30th, 2010 by scott
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Football Fables by Iain Macintosh Now I love football biographies, mainly from players or coaches over the age of 35. Im not interested in 21 year olds starting their careers buying Bentleys and going out with Big Brother contestants. They might be fantastic footballers but have not lived enough of life for me to to […]
Posted on May 8th, 2010 by scott
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Arsene Wenger: The Biography by Xavier Rivoire Now Wenger has always been a very intriguing character to me. So when it came to choosing a book to take with me in a car trip from Glasgow to Rome and back, I picked ‘Arsene Wenger: The Biography’. By the way I was not driving. It didn’t […]
Posted on April 2nd, 2010 by scott
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Garrincha by Ruy Castro. Now this book is absolutely fascinating. Garrincha was the George Best of Brazilian football. He was a superstar in the 50s and 6os, winning 50 caps scoring 12 goals. Every time he and Pele played in the same team Brazil never lost. Unfortunately like Best he had a thing for the ladies and was also […]
Posted on November 11th, 2009 by scott
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