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  • 1974

    Football In The Seventies

    by Marvin Close ...
    1974 whisks you back half a century to discover the major matches, stories and controversies that lit up football in that momentous year.From the author of 1923: Life in Football One Hundred Years Ago and 1953: Life in Football Seventy Years Ago.Britain in 1974 was a land of strikes, electricity cuts, a three-day working week and the country's first official recession for 50 years. Floodlit ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • ''Hope You Die of Cancer"

    Life in Non-League Football

    by Marvin Close ...
    A million miles away from the rich uplands of the Premier League lies the Poundland world of non-league football. A far grittier version of the beautiful game, it's a glorious ragbag of former EFL clubs on the down, impoverished minnows and ambitious outfits on the make, played by a mix of full-time, part-time and amateur performers. This is the inside story of life in the lower reaches of English ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1953

    Life in Football Seventy Years Ago

    by Marvin Close ...
    1953 offers a unique snapshot of life in and around football during Queen Elizabeth II' s coronation year – exploring the matches, personalities and events that lit up the game.Wembley saw its most exciting FA Cup Final ever with Stanley Matthews finally lifting the trophy. The top flight witnessed its closest-ever finish, and internationally the Mighty Magyars gave England a footballing lesson, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1923

    Life in Football One Hundred Years Ago

    by Marvin Close ...
    1923: Life in Football 100 Years Ago takes a deep dive into the matches, personalities and events that lit up the game a century ago. Based on exhaustive archival research, it' s also a social history that reveals how fans and footballers lived their day to day lives and how they were affected by the year' s happenings. What they ate, drank and how they spent their leisure time. How players ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Than Just a Game

    Soccer vs. Apartheid: The Most Important Soccer Story Ever Told

    Timed perfectly for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Chuck Korr and Marvin Close's More Than Just a Game tells the timeless true story of how political prisoners under apartheid found hope and dignity through soccer.In the hell that was Robben Island, inmates united courageously in an act of protest. Beginning in 1964, they requested the right to play soccer during their exercise periods. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    The Must-Read Autobiography from the Legendary Footballer and Co-host of The Overlap

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  • The Gaffer: The Trials and Tribulations of a Football Manager

    by Neil Warnock ...
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  • Playing the Enemy

    Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

    by John Carlin ...
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  • Carra: My Autobiography

    For the Anfield faithful, Jamie Carragher represents everything that is great about Liverpool Football Club, prompting the Kop to sing 'we all dream of a team of Carraghers'. The club's vice-captain, longest-serving player and one of a select band of players to have made more than 500 appearances for the Reds, Carra never gives less than 100 per cent for the cause. He is the embodiment of old ... Read more

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  • Big Sam: My Autobiography

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    Football fans will love this insight into the life and mind of Big Sam. With nearly 20 years as a player - plus almost 25 years as a coach and manager - under his belt, Sam Allardyce is one of the most recognisable figures in British football.'Big Sam' has been a robust defensive general throughout the seventies and eighties, and an imposing touchline presence as a gaffer since 1994.Over the last ... Read more

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  • Jonny: My Autobiography

    Jonny Wilkinson's career has crossed three decades and four World Cups. He has accumulated phenomenal achievements, world points records, an impressive list of broken body parts, and a drop goal that will be remembered for ever. But the peculiar calmness with which he played the game masked a very different reality. In JONNY, he reveals the extraordinary psychology that he had to tame in order to ... Read more

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