Postwar Britain seen through a lifetime’s obsession with the goalkeeper, that most British of positions, the last to succumb to continental influence, and a beguiling story of Peter Chapman’s own dream to play in goal culminating in the moment when he faced the mighty Zico …
An essential fly-on-the-wall account of the biggest World Cup tournament ever staged.
Another bumper collection of footballing faux-pas and mangled manager-speak as the bestselling series enters its third season.
Football is, in Pele’s words, ‘the beautiful game’ . Eduardo Galeano has written a series of football epiphanies from the global history of football when the rays of light have glittered from the passion of the game.
Football is, in Pele’s words, ‘the beautiful game’ . Eduardo Galeano has written a series of football epiphanies from the global history of football when the rays of light have glittered from the passion of the game.
The successor to the hugely successful collection of football wisdom, outrage and verbal mayhem, The Wrong Kind of Shirts, this time including the t-shirts!
Best Seat in the House is a love letter from a passionate, unswerving fan to basketball, the New York Knickerbockers and their thirty-year relationship through disappointment, triumph, bad calls and air balls. It’s a slam dunk.
A hilarious collection of the confusing outpourings of British football managers and pundits.
