The first edition of The Price of Football quickly established itself as the go-to guide to understanding football club finance for the serious fan. Kieran Maguire, one of the UK’s top football finance analysts, shows how professional clubs operate as businesses and explains, in non-technical language, how to read, understand and interrogate club accounts. As a clear-headed analysis and presentation of the financial imperatives and challenges facing football clubs across the English and Scottish...
Origins and Birth of the Europe of football
‘The Europe of football’ is one of the aspects of the history of European integration that has generated the smallest amount of academic research. However, the successive invention of sporting traditions with a European calling since the Belle Epoque, followed by the creation of various European cups during the interwar constitute at the same time an original form of ‘Europe-building’ and a lasting contribution to the creation of a European space and spirit. The target of the authors in this bo...
The Official Queens Park Ranges Football Club Quiz Book
by Chris Cowlin
The Goal Gourmet: The Peter Kitchen Story
by Neilson N Kaufman and Michael Peter Kitchen
From the laws of physics on a skateboard to the effects of weather on a ball, this series explores the science behind these amazin sports. Explore core science concepts in an engaging, high-interest format, with step-by-step guides to teach readers how to perform key moved in each sport; as well as providing fascinating facts and achievements.
Ever since the children of penniless immigrants caught the train from Whitechapel to White Hart Lane - to be greeted with the refrain: 'Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?' - this forgotten tribe have helped to shape the Beautiful Game. In telling the fascinating lives of these largely unsung trailblazers, Clavane uncovers a hidden history of Jewish involvement in English football. From Louis Bookman, the first Jew to play in England's top division, to the pugnacious winger Mark Lazarus, whose las...
As a young boy growing up in Cornwall, Mike Trebilcock dreamed of playing in an FA Cup Final at Wembley. On Saturday 14th May 1966 his dream came true in spectacular fashion when, to the roars of the 100,000-strong crowd, he scored twice in five minutes to help Everton beat Sheffield Wednesday 3-2. It was one of the greatest FA Cup Final fightbacks of all time. This is the story of Mike's footballing career, culminating in that epic Wembley match. Today Mike is a dedicated coach, helping young f...
In his conversations with Hunter Davies, Manchester United's popular striker Dwight Yorke tells of his childhood in Tobago and of his determination to play soccer. He talks about the experiences of leaving his family and friends to make a new life in Birmingham, playing for Aston Villa, and he candidly discusses his move to Manchester United. Combined with Hunter Davies' interviews with the people Yorke met along his way, this book is an exploration of the true character of this footballing hero...
No sport in the world evokes greater passion among its followers than soccer. A national survey of under-16s has shown soccer to be the most favoured sport among school children in the United Kingdom. This book demonstrates how to harness this enthusiasm among young people to build a strong soccer team. - Including everything from the warm up to the winning goal, this comprehensive guide is the only manual you will ever need. - Each technique is reinforced by step-by-step photographs and simple...
