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  • How Britain Brought Football to the World

    by Stuart Laycock, Philip Laycock ...
    'Delighted to learn from this very enjoyable new book that the first ever game of football played in Austria was won by the Vienna Cricket Club.' - Tom Holland, Historian and BroadcasterHave we matched Wembley 1966 and 2022, or lost again on penalties? As a football fan in the Home Nations, there is at least one thing of which you can be sure. Even if sometimes other countries play it better than ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unexpected Britain

    A Journey Through Our Hidden History

    by Stuart Laycock, Philip Laycock ...
    Many Britons like to think they have a basic understanding of Britain’s amazing history. The Roman invasion, Alfred and the Danes, 1066, Magna Carta, Bannockburn, Agincourt, the Wars of the Roses, Henry VIII and his wives, the Reformation, etc., etc. The trouble is that concentrating on just a few over-familiar landmarks like these can give a distorted picture of the land we live in. What would ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Little Book of England

    by Stuart Laycock, Philip Laycock ...
    Series series Little Book of
    Did you know?• The first African community to arrive in England was stationed at Aballava on Hadrian's Wall to keep out the Picts.• Admiral Robert FitzRoy, creator of the Met Office, was so upset by criticism of his weather forecasts that he shot himself.• While studying at Cambridge, Charles Darwin formed the 'Glutton Club' for the purpose of eating unusual animals.• Ada Lovelace wrote a computer ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Football Against The Enemy

    by Simon Kuper ...
    'GREAT' Independent'TERRIFIC' Guardian'WONDERFUL' Time Out'QUALITY' Mail on Sunday'DEFINITIVE' FourFourTwoWinner of the William Hill Sports Book AwardFeatured in FourFourTwo's list of 'The 10 Best Football Books Ever'Featured in Esquire's 'Best Sports Bo... ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • The Ball is Round

    A Global History of Football

    by David Goldblatt ...
    THE DEFINITIVE, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED BOOK ABOUT FOOTBALL'Football conquered the world with its capacity to astonish, and this is its definitive history' The IndependentThere may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Soccer Against the Enemy

    How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power

    by Simon Kuper ...
    Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death for millions around the world, an international lingua franca. Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. At the same time he tried to discover what makes different countries play a simple game so differently. Kuper ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • How They Stole the Game

    by David Yallop ...
    What's wrong with Football today? In June 2011, Sepp Blatter was elected - uncontested - as president of Fifa once more. Despite attempts to halt the vote amidst allegations and accusations of corruption, the show went on.As How They Stole The Game, David Yallop's classic expose of the dark heart behind the beautiful game showed when it was first published, Football was rotten from the top down. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The World Cup, A Very Peculiar History

    by David Arscott ...
    Series Book 28 - A Very Peculiar History
    In 'The World Cup, A Very Peculiar History', author David Arscott tackles the big subjects at the heart of the beautiful game, including how the tournament first kicked off, the dirty tactics used throughout the years and the most memorable managers in the history of football. Filled to the brim with quirky quotes, fantastic facts and surprising statistics, this is the perfect accompaniment to any ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Billionaires Club

    The Unstoppable Rise of Football’s Super-rich Owners WINNER FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR, SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2018

    by James Montague ...
    A compelling examination of football club ownership in the era of the super-richOnce upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want with our beautiful ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

  • Mammoth Book Of The World Cup

    by Nick Holt ...
    Series Book 279 - Mammoth Books
    An all-encompassing, chronological guide to football's World Cup, one of the world's few truly international events, in good time for the June 2018 kick-off in Russia. From its beginnings in 1930 to the modern all-singing, all-dancing self-styled 'greatest show on Earth', every tournament is covered with features on major stars and great games, as well as stories about some less celebrated names ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The World Cup: The Complete History

    by Terry Crouch, James Corbett ...
    Now in its fourth edition, The World Cup: The Complete History, is the only book to give a truly encyclopedic guide to the greatest football show on earth. Fully revised and updated in time for the 2014 finals in Brazil, the book is renowned for its remarkable comprehensiveness. Featuring a separate chapter for every competition; every single result of every match; every single player in every ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thirty-One Nil

    On the Road With Football's Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey

    by James Montague ...
    WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSA brilliant book - Rory SmithThe story of the immense struggle to qualify for the World Cup, Thirty-One Nil roams from American Samoa to Zambia in a remarkable and insightful journey that gets under the skin of world football.In a tiny, decaying aluminium smelting town in southern Tajikistan, a short drive from a raging war ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD