Football Books

Podcast: Managing Matabeleland

Matabeleland at the CONIFA World Cup 2018 [Credit: Chris Hansen and CONIFA] We talk to football coach and writer Justin…

6 years ago

Podcast: David Squires on Cartooning Football

We talk to cartoonist David Squires, whose illustrations appear in The Guardian (UK) and L'Equipe (France), as well as in…

6 years ago

Best Italian football books, blogs and podcasts

During the World Cup, we posted a literary guide to football in the 32 participating countries at Russia 2018. One…

7 years ago

World Cup Books 2018: A Literary Guide to 32 Countries

I am on a mission to find a cracking read on each of the 32 countries competing at Russia 2018.…

7 years ago

Book Review: World in Motion by Simon Hart

English and Irish football fans, in particular, remember Italia ’90 fondly. Gazza’s tears, Nessun Dorma, Totò Schillaci’s wild staring eyes,…

7 years ago

Book Review: The Story of the World Cup

Brian Glanville’s famous book has been updated for Russia 2018, and he pulls no punches in his latest update covering…

7 years ago

Book Review: When Friday Comes

The Middle East is obsessed with football. While the wealth of Qatar and Dubai has attracted players at the tail…

7 years ago

Book Review: The Death and Life of Australian Soccer

Sydney-based football writer Gary Andrews casts his eye over Joe Gorman’s assessment of soccer Down Under in The Death and…

7 years ago

Football Book Review: Mister by Rory Smith

England is the big underachiever in world football and an English manager hasn’t even won their own domestic championship since…

8 years ago

Book Review: Behind the Curtain

Almost a decade before Jonathan Wilson wrote the brilliant Angels with Dirty Faces, he chronicled his travels in the former…

8 years ago