Books about footie

[Billy Dean]

Can anyone recommend any good ones?

Just finished reading Anatomy of England by Jonathan Wilson. Basically tells a history of English football through 10 games, good and bad.

 

[Toast]

 

[Toast]

 

[Yid4life]

The Glory Game - Hunter Davies
The Nowhere Men - Michael Calvin

 

[Billy Dean]

Gonna make a start on La Roja by Jimmy Burns tonight

 

[duncs pigeon]

Scally lol. (It is a good read btw). Tony Adams addicted, is a good read, also Brian Clough.

 

[Toast]

Scally lol. (It is a good read btw). Tony Adams addicted, is a good read, also Brian Clough.

Read all them.
Adams has a new one out btw.
Not looked at it yet.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

The Beatiful Team (in search of Pele and the 1970 Brazilians) - Garry Jenkins

 

[hullefc]

The Odd Man Out, a book about Ron Saunders at Villa. A very good read.

 

[Walken]

I've recommended it before, but Gary Imlach's 'my father and other working class heroes' is a fine read, with some nice everton connections

 

[verreauxi]

"The Numbers Game" is great; a money-ball approach to football; lots of good data analysis that is easy to read.

"The Nowhere Men" is also good, about the PL scouts.

"The Mixer" is a history of the PL and how it has changed; very easy to read.

"The Ball is Round" is a massive, compendious history of the game from the beginning.

"How Soccer explains the World" "Soccernomics" are both good, global analyses of the modern game.

"Brilliant Orange" is a cool, cultural history of soccer in the Netherlands

"Soccer against the Enemy" is a cool exploration of soccer rivalries throughout the world.

 

[gonetomorrow]

The Glory Game - Hunter Davies
The Nowhere Men - Michael Calvin

The Glory Game is brilliant. Way ahead of its time. I think Davies wrote for the Sunday Times which was a fantastic paper in those days (before the dirty Digger got his mitts on it).

He also wrote the first Beatles biography - also excellent.

 

[Billy Dean]

"The Numbers Game" is great; a money-ball approach to football; lots of good data analysis that is easy to read.

"The Nowhere Men" is also good, about the PL scouts.

"The Mixer" is a history of the PL and how it has changed; very easy to read.

"The Ball is Round" is a massive, compendious history of the game from the beginning.

"How Soccer explains the World" "Soccernomics" are both good, global analyses of the modern game.

"Brilliant Orange" is a cool, cultural history of soccer in the Netherlands

"Soccer against the Enemy" is a cool exploration of soccer rivalries throughout the world.

Gonna read the ball is round once I'm done with la roja

 

[Walken]

Simon Kuper's 'football against the enemy' some interesting stuff in there

 

[davmaher]

My son got me Das Reboot by Raphael Honigstein for Xmas last year, which I really enjoyed. It's built around Germany winning the last World Cup, but also covers how they developed and changed their whole system over the 15 years or so prior to that.