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Roy Race is a totally normal 16-year-old. He just happens to be the best striker in Melchester, too… Roy’s always dreamed of becoming a professional footballer and playing for Melchester Rovers, the team he’s supported his entire life, but he never thought he’d get a chance – until now!
Kieran Trippier is the boy from Bury whose free-kick skills earned him the nickname ‘The Bury Beckham’. His determined defending and amazing goal-scoring have made him a Tottenham Hotspur hero – and, at the 2018 World Cup, his dramatic goal against Croatia almost earned England a place in the World Cup Final. The sky is the limit for England’s new flying full-back, and now you can read the exciting story of his journey.
The autobiography of the iconic, hugely influential and well-loved former English football player and manager.
‘Agüero’ is the tale of the boy who would go on to re-write football history forever. His dramatic 94th minute goal on the final day of the 2011/12 season, to snatch the title from under rivals Manchester United’s noses, was the most electric moment in Premier League history. This is how the small boy from Argentina became the biggest hero of all.
A cock-eyed compilation of match reports, correspondence, and reminiscences from pundits, commentators, players, officials and spectators who weren’t there but should have been.
‘Bale’ tracks the Welsh wizard’s impressive rise from talented schoolboy to Real Madrid star. This is the inspiring story of how Gareth Bale beat the odds and became the most expensive player in football history.
Focused around that World Cup victory, Peter Chapman’s wryly evocative memoir ‘Out of Time’ captures the spirit of that year and paints a vivid portrait of a young man, a football team and a whole country all trying to find their new place in the world.
Ian Wright, Arsenal legend, England striker and TV pundit extraordinaire, is one of the most interesting and relevant figures in modern football. His journey from a South London council estate to national treasure is everybody’s dream. From Sunday morning football directly to Crystal Palace; from ‘boring, boring Arsenal’ to inside the Wenger Revolution; from Saturday afternoons on the pitch to Saturday evenings on primetime television; from a week in prison to inspiring youth offenders, Ian reveals all about his life and career in this book.
When do footballers poo? Can you play football on Mars? What is a magic sponge? You will find the answers to these questions and more in chapters on subjects such as history, geography, biology and maths.
During the last two decades, football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to being the very centre of our popular culture – what was once an economic basket case is now a booming entertainment industry. In this book David Goldblatt looks at how the alliance of the big clubs, FA administrators and Sky television created the Premiership out of the ashes of the 1980s.
In 1863 a group of victorian Oxbridge graduates, frustrated by the confusing riot of competing rules which characterized the game of football, drew up the first standard set of rules, creating the First Rule Book of the FA, recently recognised as one of the twelve books that changed the world.
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