Soccer

Now in its 120th edition, this pocket encyclopedia of football facts contains everything you need to know about the game - league and non-league - in Britain, Ireland and throughout Europe; plus, in World Cup year, a comprehensive review of the qualifying rounds and finals tournament in Germany. Fro... More

The biggest event on the cricket calender is to be held in south Africa from February 8th to March 23rd,2003. The list of cricket nations participating includes: India, Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, England.Peter Murray has published and written several sporting books and magazines over the past 2... More

Even people who don't know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to play the game, he won the World Cup three times and is Brazil's all-time record goalscorer. But how did this man ... More

This book does not offer all the answers to leading a happy life but it comes pretty close. It covers topics ranging from emotional security, dealing with crisis, managing stress and spirituality amongst others. Lucidly the author picks up various problems that once face in the modern world, how to ... More

Global popular culture and big business have revolutionized the East in a generation. British football, sport of the masses and now commercial super power, has travelled with this tide of change in the East in its own right. The development of British football as a major participatory sport in Japan... More

This book presents an original economic analysis of the English professional football industry. The economic influences on decisions taken by owners, managers, players and spectators are all considered, using theoretical and empirical methods of economic investigation. The empirical analysis draws o... More

Andy Gray has been at the forefront of British soccer for over three decades. Now, for the first time, he tells his own remarkable story, and that of the modern game. From a fanatical footballing household in Glasgow, Andy worked his way to become a teenage prodigy at Dundee. But it was in England t... More

This book examines France's hosting of the soccer World Cup, held in ten cities in summer 1998. It covers the major socio-economic, political, cultural and sporting dimensions of this global sports event, including bidding for and organizing the Finals, the improvement of sporting and transport infr... More

The soccer World Cup is unquestionably the biggest sporting event in the world. This fascinating collection of papers examines the background to the 2002 World Cup Finals, to be held in Korea and Japan, and explores the event's profound social, cultural, political and economic significance. The book... More

This examination of changes taking place in the world of football focuses on its growing commercialization. It covers such topics as fans being becoming shareholders, with a say in the running of the clubs, and the setting-up of a government-sponsored scheme to support shareholder trusts.This examin... More

Highlighting the changing role of fans in European football, "Fanatics" tackles questions of power, national and regional identities and race and racism in this increasingly popular sport. It combines new approaches to the study of fan culture with critical assessments of the commercialization of th... More

Soccer leagues worldwide are being dominated by clubs who are becoming richer and more powerful. Enormous corporate investment, deals with media giants, merchandising and dedicated TV channels mean that soccer teams are as concerned with the affairs of the boardroom as what is going on on the field.... More

During 1930's Britain, football became increasingly commercialized, and the rise and development of both local and national media, in particular broadcast media, enabled players to become widely recognized outside of their immediate local context for the first time. Tracing the origins, playing care... More

The book argues that established European football histories do not correspond with the facts. Football, as played by the "masses" previous to the public school codes is almost always portrayed as wild and quite barbaric, but Harvey shows evidence suggesting this view to be a serious over-simplifica... More

This book gives a fascinating history of the English experience of sport, following its development through the centuries from its earliest beginnings in social play and pastimes, via its adoption as an alternative to the clock-watching routine of urban life, to its modern incarnation as a global bu... More

The first history of Italian football to be written in English, 'Calcio' is a mix of serious analysis and comic storytelling, with vivid descriptions of games, goals, dives, missed penalties, riots and scandals in the richest and toughest league in the world. 'Calcio' tells the story of Italian fo... More

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