For over half a century, Match of the Day has been essential viewing for football fans, whatever their allegiance and no programme has captured the star-studded era of the Premier League better.
Updated to include Klopp s final season at Anfield "e;It is the intensity of the football, of how the people live football in Liverpool, all the Liverpool fans around the world.
'A superb go-to guide for anyone seeking context on why Qatar won the 2022 World Cup bid' Daily ExpressThe Fall of the House of Fifa is the definitive story of Fifa's rise and the most spectacular fall sport has ever seen.
From the author of Paper Lion Following his turn as a Detroit Lions rookie in Paper Lion, George Plimpton returns to the field of American football and focuses on the careers of his Lions teammates, Alex Mad Duck Karras and John the Bear Gordy.
In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions pre-season training camp and in doing so set the bar for participatory sports journalism.
*Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014* The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface.
**WINNER British Sports Book Awards SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR****Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award**Gareth Thomas had it all.
For fans of books by Jimmy Bullard, Paul Merson, The Sidemen and the F2 FreestylersMessi might be the most skilful, Ronaldo might have the best shot, but according to FIFA it's 16-stone Adebayo Akinfenwa who's the strongest footballer in the world.
The definitive account of Leicester City's astonishing rise from relegation certainties to Premier League title winners: the greatest achievement in the modern football era.
When Jonah Lomu trampled over Tony Underwood in the World Cup semi-final in 1995, the greatest star rugby union has ever seen was launched on the world.
Andr s Iniesta is the Barcelona and Spain legend, rated by the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Paul Scholes as one of the greatest footballers of all time.
In rugby, there are the Flash Harrys and the Glory Boys: the fly-halves who run, kick and dazzle; the scrum-halves who nip and dart; the wingers who step and glide.
On January 6, 1975, Nottingham Forest were thirteenth in the old Second Division, five points above the relegation places and straying dangerously close to establishing a permanent place for themselves among football's nowhere men.
'For me, he is England's greatest ever player' - Gary Lineker'Sir Bobby was a hero to millions, not just in Manchester or the United Kingdom, but wherever football is played around the world' - Manchester United FCSir Bobby Charlton is widely acknowledged as the greatest player ever to wear an England shirt.
'For me, he is England's greatest ever player' Gary Lineker'Sir Bobby was a hero to millions, not just in Manchester or the United Kingdom, but wherever football is played around the world' Manchester United FCSir Bobby Charlton was Manchester United through and through.
Sir Bobby Charlton reckons that if John Charles were playing today, his transfer value would be 70 million; and in a recent poll of Italian football fans, they voted him the greatest foreign player ever to play in their league, ahead of Maradona and Platini.
Tom Finney personifies a vanished golden era of football, playing his entire career under the maximum wage and never wavering in his loyalty to Preston North End.
In an era of superstar prima donnas, Stuart Pearce's total commitment on the pitch earned him the affection of football fans everywhere, who nicknamed him Psycho.
