Football variants and related games

Derek Niven sets out to tell the history of the Lisbon Lions from a completely new slant.

Winner of the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Children's Book of the YearSmall, skinny and short-sighted .

'Fifty Years of Flicking Football' is a concise history of the game of - table football - 'Subbuteo', from its inception in 1946 to the modern day.

'The Ultimate Directory of English and Scottish Football Grounds (1888-2005)' is a 240 page best selling book (with several reprints since it was first published in 2005), which provides the reader with information relating to the 323 grounds in total (206 in England and 117 in Scotland) on which League matches have been played from the first, in 1888.

This is the moving story of high school students in an isolated village at the top of Alaska starting a football team.

This is the moving story of high school students in an isolated village at the top of Alaska starting a football team.

For over 130 years the British & Irish Lions have stood out as a symbol of the ethics, values and romance at the heart of rugby union.

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Sportswomen in Cinema considers both documentary and fiction films from a variety of periods and cultures, by directors including Kathryn Bigelow, Gurinder Chadha, Im Soon-rye, George Kukor, Ida Lupino, and Leni Riefenstahl.

Jews don't do football.

Richer Than God is an authoritative, provocative, investigative account of Manchester City's history, culminating in its transformation as Sheikh Mansour seeks to spend the formerly miserable Manchester club into the European elite.

AN EPIC SWINDLE is the inside story of how Liverpool FC came within hours of being re-possessed by the banks after the shambolic 44-month reign of American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world.

A sharply written, action-packed chronicle of Denver Broncos championship history.

Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians.

A rollicking memoir from the linebacker at the heart of the most famous Alabama football play of all time No university has won more football championships than Alabama, and Barry Krauss played a key role in one of them.

The fascinating story of the 1899 Sewanee football team's remarkable, unassailable winning streak.

Over the past forty years, football has surpassed baseball as America's favorite game.

"e;Vince Lombardi-who relished his undergraduate studies in philosophy-would have loved this book.

';Beautifully researched and engagingly told, this book captures the bitter conflicts and surprising continuities that marked the emergence of a national style in Brazil as it tells the story of the men and women who, despite their many differences, together created ';the beautiful game.

In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the origins of soccer in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity as "e;foot-ball"e; at the end of the nineteenth century to its subsequent mythologization as the specifically Brazilian "e;futebol,"e; o jogo bonito (the beautiful game).

For the young men of Dunbar-the low-income, historically segregated neighborhoods of Fort Myers, Florida-avoiding the path that leads to easy money as a drug dealer often means choosing complete devotion to football and dreams of NFL stardom.

Zcalo Public Squares 10 Best Books We Read This Year, 2014How the game of soccer became a part of everyday life and national identity in Latin AmericaGet ready for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympicsboth held in Brazilwith the story of Latin Americas most popular sport.

This collection of incisive articles gives a leading team of international philosophers a free kick toward exploring the complex and often hidden contours of the world of soccer.

Who comprised the most productive pairs in the history of professional team sports?

There is no sporting event more popular than the World Cup.

On a July afternoon in 1999, this country's proudest moment in soccer occurred in Pasadena, California.

If you attend a soccer match in Buenos Aires of the local Atlanta Athletic Club, you will likely hear the rival teams chanting anti-Semitic slogans.

Andy Bollen explores the history, tradition and violent nature of football's biggest clashes.

';An evocative tale about a tiny Texas town and its undying love for their community and football team.

The 466 men who have held the increasingly demanding and prestigious position of Head Coach in the National Football League and the two leagues that merged into it (the All America Football Conference of the 1940s and the American Football League of the 1960s) form an exclusive club.

Fred "e;Duke"e; Slater was the greatest African American football player of the first half of the 20th century.

This is a comprehensive reference work covering Joe Namath's entire professional football career, following it season by season and game by game.

Each year, more than 575 awards and trophies are presented to college football players and coaches around the country.

From 1976 until 1994, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost far more games than they won.