The team’s inspirational captain, Tony Adams, was sent to prison, a more rigorous fixture schedule, a mid-match brawl that led to the only points deduction to have ever been given to a club – before or since – are just some of the crazy circumstances that the Arsenal team of 90/91 had to overcome. With an entry on each of the 24 clubs competing in the WSL and Championship as well as the England national team, the book also contains a foreword by UEFA women’s football chief and former FIFA World Best Player Nadine Keßler. All the key statistics, league tables and results are included. Arsenal are my release, my escape from the real world which, for ninety minutes, doesn’t exist. How long have we been saying how football is so far removed from the real world? Well, it turns out that has finally come in useful!”

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This is a unique account of an unprecedented and, at times, traumatic year for Arsenal, on and off the pitch, as seen through the eyes of a LOYAL Arsenal supporter of over 40 years. Enter the Ultimate Football Heroes Hall of Fame! These legends of the game have made their mark on footballing history. Dig deeper and you’ll find books framed against the game’s irrational passions and ambitions that are among the best books written about anything. Don’t believe me? Have a look at my Top 10. It should have been 11, but Ayrshire Junior football teams always get one sent off early for dissent. So, in that spirit, here are the 10 still on the field as the final whistle blows. Often lighthearted, occasionally serious, constantly passionate and honest; this is an insight into the rollercoaster of emotions experienced during a season like no other. Tottenham’s Three Lions is the most comprehensive and thorough retrospective look at the club’s proud record of producing top quality players for the England national team.This is the fifth edition of our unique, ground-breaking book – the first and only book of its kind. Already recognized as the authority on the women’s game, ‘The Women’s Football Yearbook’ is the definitive annual – offering unrivalled information, photos, facts and figures on all England’s leading teams. The first book was published in September – and tells the remarkable story of Villa’s first 75 years, an era when the club dominated football… the Kings of Birmingham and renowned across the globe. My new novel There’s Only One Danny Garvey is set in 1996. It is a book set in a footballing context, but it isn’t a book about football. Just as The Damned United (listed below) is a book that examines, through a stream-of-consciousness narrative, the obsessions of a man being played out in an often-illogical, unforgiving, alpha male-dominated environment. There’s a lot more than a simple game at stake.

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A series of fun football biographies telling the life-stories of the biggest and best footballers and their incredible journeys from childhood to super-star professional players. The Manchester United Book of the Seventies is the most comprehensive and thorough retrospective look at the decade imaginable, including match reports, player profiles, in-depth statistical information, a month by month diary, plus a multitude of rarely seen or long-forgotten photos and memorabilia. AS WE APPROACH ASTON VILLA’S 150-YEAR LANDMARK, A STUNNING NEW BOOK PROJECT HAS BEEN COMMISSIONED TO CELEBRATE THE CLUB’S PROUD HISTORY. LIMITED EDITION GOLD FINAL EDITION A limited edition print run of the updated Griffin Park book has been produced that includes the final two seasons at our proud old stadium – featuring photographs and memories from the club’s stunning 5-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday that proved to be the last competitive match Bees supporters could attend in person – as well as the last-ever match against Swansea City in the play-offs.

My sometime colleagues from Nutmeg magazine have produced a beautiful, evocative, gritty love-letter to the Scottish game. Daniel’s poetic descriptions and Alan’s alluring photographs capture the attraction of football at all levels, but the book is especially affecting when they visit grounds where the players voices can be heard over the fans on the terracing. Supporters can easily become obsessed by tactics and formations. Whether the “diamond” trumps the “ false nine” or whether 4-3-3 is just 4-5-1 with lazier forwards? And for those who (pre-Covid) lived for those never-ending pub arguments with no hope of resolution, this book is their bible. Although it stops short of explaining the theory of the ‘67th-minute’ goal. That’s explored in detail in There’s Only One Danny Garvey. We have unearthed hundreds of never-used or long-forgotten photographs, reproduced alongside a match report from every game, a player profile of every Villa player (with a photo), interviews with some of the stand-out players, as well as league tables and statistical information season by season. George ‘Geordie’ Armstrong served Arsenal for 27 years as both a player and a coach, before being cruelly taken from his family and his club whilst coaching the Arsenal reserves at London Colney – he collapsed suddenly on the training pitch having suffered a brain haemorrhage in October 2000 – and never recovered. Winning the European Cup in 1982 is, without a doubt, the finest hour in Aston Villa’s illustrious history. There was no invited ‘Super League’ nonsense in those days, to become the Champions of Europe Villa had to be the Champions of England… Real Champions playing other Real Champions. So, to many Villa supporters, 26 May 1982 was the most special, most important, time in their lives.

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Discover how Grealish battled through many ups and downs, like suffering relegation, and overcame these obstacles at each turn. Or follow the journey of the world's most lethal striker and England captain Harry Kane. Plus many more! The football book was once a Christmas staple. No visit from Santa to the Ross household was complete without the Shoot! Annual or the Topical Times Football Book. These photo-based publications, along with the obligatory My Story by a star player, established a lowly perception of football books as either pictorial and aimed at children, or as cliche-ridden as a post-match interview with an impatient manager. But football is a metaphor for life, isn’t it? Surely the perfect vehicle to convey the frailties of human existence?Peace’s masterful novel depicting the 44-day tenure of Brian Clough as manager of Leeds United depicts how his paranoia and loneliness (and irrationality) grow with his increasing isolation. Insomnia takes hold and the Clough of the novel struggles to understand why the skills and practices that made him a brilliant football player – prior to career-ending injury – and then a mercurial manager, have apparently deserted him.