Football (Soccer, Association football)

  • A beautiful game

    £25.00

    Life is a beautiful game – but how should you play it? For Sven-Goran Eriksson the game is almost over. As one of the world’s most revered and respected football managers, he has led some of the finest sportsmen on Earth – led them to great victories as well as heartbreaking defeats. But to reach dizzying heights, you must risk crushing lows. And, always, there is the next challenge. Now, facing life’s ultimate test, Sven looks back on what he has achieved, experienced and learned over a lifetime in service to the beautiful game of football. It is a journey that has taken him, from a small club in his native Sweden, across every continent, competing on the world’s stage. Recently diagnosed with terminal cancer, Sven talks candidly about his extraordinary successes (as well as overcoming his failures). He shares the lessons he has learned on the way – about life, leadership and love.

    Read moreDone

  • Arsène who?

    £10.99

    With unparalleled behind-the-scenes insights, ‘Arsene Who?’ dives into Arsene Wenger’s revolutionary management at Arsenal, which changed the face of English football. Featuring 150 contributions from those who were involved in the Wenger revolution, this book includes contributions from key players Ian Wright, Lee Dixon, Ray Parlour, Emmanuel Petit, Marc Overmars, Nigel Winterburn, David Platt, Wenger’s assistant Pat Rice, physios Gary and Colin Lewin, and even the kit man, Vic Ackers. Exposing personal relationships, conflicts and a Copernican Revolution in football philosophy, this is the story of how Wenger changed the club for good.

    Read moreDone

  • Match Annual 2025

    £9.99

    The number one footie annual for fans everywhere!

    Read moreDone

  • Transformer

    £20.00

    Before Klopp’s arrival in 2015, the city of Liverpool had not seen such great success since The Beatles. Neil Atkinson explores how Klopp, heralded as one of the most charismatic and successful managers in the history of football, has taken Liverpool FC to great heights over the past nine years. As Klopp’s departure nears, Atkinson looks back on the trailblazing manager’s time in Liverpool, the legacy he leaves behind and what it means for Liverpool: the club and the city. Weaving this story around 11 key games, taken from Klopp’s first season to his last, Atkinson considers how Liverpool has evolved into one of the greatest teams in football, with millions of supporters across the globe, and how Klopp and his philosophy have restored to the city, devastated by Hillsborough and its aftermath as well as other economic travails, a genuine sense of hope, pride and community.

    Read moreDone

  • Unfit and improper persons

    £12.99

    Ever dreamed of setting up your own football club? Join the team behind The Price of Football podcast as they start a (fictional) football club and discover what’s really going on behind the scenes of the beautiful game. Buying a football club will set you back a few quid, but you’ve also got to pass the Premier League and EFL’s ‘fit and proper persons test’. That all seems like a bit of a faff to the team behind the award-winning podcast The Price of Football, so acclaimed comedy writer Kevin Day, football finance expert Kieran Maguire and producer Guy Kilty start an imaginary club instead. In ‘Unfit and Improper Persons’ they take West Park Rovers on a hilarious journey from the lowest level of the FA pyramid right up to the English Football League, the Premier League and, if fortune favours the fictional, into the heart of Europe.

    Read moreDone

  • Extra time beckons, penalties loom

    £20.00

    The follow-up to ‘Football Clichés’ – a cult classic about the language of football – this book is a playful, yet deadly serious guide from Hurrey as he rules on countless infringements – both glaring and subtle – of football’s linguistic laws.

    Read moreDone

  • Match of the Day football almanac

    £16.99

    Do you remember the Battle of Old Trafford? Shearer’s dream debut hat trick? Or how many goals Haaland scored in his first Premier League season? Hope, heartbreak and victory, over the past 60 years Match of the Day has shown it all. From bombastic debuts in August to May’s nail-biting end-of-season title races, the football calendar is filled with legendary moments. Packed full of stories from 60 years of football history, the ‘Match of the Day Football Almanac’ is your ultimate guide to the highs and lows of the football season. Featuring the most legendary footballing stories from the last 60 years of Match of the Day, this month-by-month guide includes giant-killing FA Cup battles, the birth of the Premier League and the dawn of VAR, all culminating in legendary World Cup and Euros tournaments – with stats and insights from the experts at Match of the Day along the way.

    Read moreDone

  • How to win the Premier League

    £22.00

    This is an insider account of the data revolution that has swept through the modern football world written by one of its key architects, Ian Graham. Between 2012 and 2023, Ian Graham worked as Liverpool FC’s Director of Research. His tenure coincided with the club’s greatest period of success since the 1980s, including winning the Premier League in 2020 – Liverpool’s first league title after an agonising 29 years. Here, Graham reveals the fascinating data that informed some of the club’s most pivotal moments of the past decade, from the appointment of Jurgen Klopp as manager in 2015 to the signing of Mohamed Salah in 2017.

    Add to basketDone

  • The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines

    £12.99

    An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League tactics, published to coincide with 25 years of the competition.

    Read moreDone

  • The house of Beckham

    £22.00

    The explosive new book from Britain’s leading investigative biographer, Tom Bower

    Read moreDone

  • UEFA EURO 2024

    £16.99

    One of the most eagerly anticipated events on the sporting calendar, the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship will take place in Germany in June-July 2024, with 24 teams competing for the most prestigious international prize in the European game. ‘UEFA EURO 2024’ covers every aspect of the tournament, including a comprehensive analysis of each national team and its chances of success, and a detailed look at the players expected to grab the headlines. It also contains a guide to the 10 stadiums and host cities, a fill-in tournament chart, the story of qualifying and a selection of magic moments.

    Read moreDone

  • Va-va-voom

    £20.00

    In this fascinating and exhaustively researched book, the first of its kind in the English language, Tom Williams brings to life French football’s chequered coming of age over the last 40 years. He details how the starry-eyed romanticism that characterised the national team in the early 1980s gave way to an Italian-style pragmatism that would lead Les Bleus to the summit of the international game in the late 1990s and examines how a succession of star-studded club sides grappled with the thorny (and distinctly un-French) notion of how to win. He delves into French football’s rich history and explains the myriad ways – tactical, technical and cultural – in which France has shaped the game’s evolution around the world. Featuring exclusive interviews with great figures of the French game, this is a book no football fan will want to miss.

    Read moreDone
Nomad Books