Fully revised and updated for the 2010 World Cup Finals, ENGLAND EXPECTS is the definitive history of the England Football team. From the inaugural international matches in the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of Fabio Capello's reign, it is an engrossing and graphic narrative history of the inside stories, dramas and shattered dreams of our nation's footballers. The second edition of ENGLAND EXPECTS is completely revised to include a new introduction, a new chapter detailing all the agonies of the 2006 World Cup and the contrasting fortunes of England's managers since then.

England Expects: A History of the England Football Team

Sports & Outdoors

Corbett, James

Hiking & Camping

deCoubertin Books

In one year as a journalist Webb Miller covered thirty-three murders and three hangings in Chicago, was kidnapped by an American tycoon and covered the Western Front. Later he broke news of the First World War armistice, witnessed a guillotine execution, befriended Mussolini, interviewed Hitler, rode a Zeppelin across the Atlantic, reported from the front line in the Spanish Civil War and Italy's invasion of Abyssinia and accompanied Gandhi on the Great Salt March. First published in 1935, "I Found No Peace" is a forgotten classic, written with great poignancy and élan and heavily influenced by Miller's hero Henry David Thoreau. Part-history, part-memoir this is one of the most evocative and close-to-the-action accounts ever written about the modern world's defining era.

I Found No Peace: A Journey Through the Age of Extremes

Biographies & Memoirs

Miller, Webb

Professionals & Academics

For half a century, Edward Payson Weston was one of the most famous people in the English-speaking world as the first age of international celebrity unfolded. The godfather of the pedestrianism movement - a sport that took the Victorian world by storm - he criss-crossed Britain and America on foot earning fame, fortune and notoriety in an athletic career that saw him complete some of the most amazing endurance feats ever witnessed. The story of a dreamer, schemer and ladies man, who met with presidents and royalty, crooks and knaves, A Man in a Hurry is one man's athletic journey from the Gold Rush to the Jazz Age. With its colourful detail, historical context and readable style, the co-authors have skillfully recreated a vanished world to tell one of the most amazing stories in sporting history and provide an important addition to the sports literature canon.

A Man in a Hurry: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Edward Payson Weston, the World's Greatest Walker

Nick Harris

Helen Harris

PAUL MARSHALL

Biographies

Considered among the greatest goalkeepers of all time and one of English football's defining figures over a career that spanned more than two decades, Neville Southall tells his life story. Uncompromising, unorthodox and often unkempt, Southall's career followed an incredible trajectory: from football-mad binman to the greatest goalkeeper in the world.

Neville Southall

In January 2011 millions of Egyptians took part in mass protests that ended the iron rule of its military dictator, Hosni Mubarak. Across the Middle East, from Algeria to Yemen, millions took to the streets, overthrowing despotic and violent regimes that had clung onto power for generations.Meanwhile, on the football pitch, a different sort of revolution was taking place. The wealthy Gulf-based owners of Manchester City plotted the club's dominance of English football while Qatar celebrated its unlikely accession as 2022 World Cup hosts. Middle Eastern money impacted the fortunes of clubs in England, Spain, France and Italy.There has never been much to unite the Middle East. For decades, centuries even, words and images of a hostile, alien land have dominated the news agenda. But just under the surface, beneath the wars, the insurgencies and revolutions, there is one thing the region can agree on: football.For seven years James Montague has travelled the Middle East uncovering stories of the beautiful game's survival and resurgence. Whilst the region has often been divided, sometimes violently, along religious, political and ethnic lines, football is the Middle East's one, great uniting thread.Montague travelled to every country in the Middle East, from Yemen to Gaza to Lebanon to Egypt to Iran, to uncover the stories that proved much more than a region's obsession with the game.When Friday Comes is an account of Montague's journey across this volatile land, that saw him man the barricades with Egypt's football ultras, meet Libya's revolutionary national team players, chew qhat with the Yemeni FA and watch Hezbollah's very own football team in Lebanon.What started with a journey to understand a region blighted by despots, ended with the Arab Spring and the Middle East's huge wealth in natural resources being used to start a new era of dominance in world football.When Friday Comes will take you to every corner of the Middle East where football thrives and where the game played an important, sometimes crucial, part in the Arab Spring. But, more importantly, the Middle East and its extreme wealth also provides a window on this rising power, and how football in the rest of the world could be changed forever.

When Friday Comes: Football, War and Revolution in the Middle East

History

Montague, James

Middle East

Howard Kendall is one of the greats of English football management and among the defining figures in the history of Everton Football Club. A schoolboy prodigy footballer, he first joined the club from Preston in 1967, forming - with Alan Ball and Colin Harvey - one of the most distinguished midfield partnerships ever witnessed in English football. He won the League Championship in 1970 and later captained the club. He returned to Goodison as manager in 1981, reviving Everton as they embarked on the most successful period in their history. Everton, Kendall said, was like a marriage, while other clubs he served - including Athletic Bilbao and Manchester City - were mere love affairs. Now he lifts the lid on a 30-year career that established his reputation as a managerial and playing legend. Forthright, revealing and often very funny, Kendall's long-awaited autobiography reveals his epic love affair with the game he served with such distinction, tracing the highs and lows, the characters, the laughter, the tears, and the many triumphs.

Love Affairs and Marriage: My Life in Football

Kendall, Howard

Ask any Everton fan whose allegiance stretches back to the 1950s to name their favourite player and the answer will be familiar and enthusiastically uttered: Dave Hickson.Hickson, the only man to turn out for all three Merseyside teams, captivated the city during the decade with his outrageously brave centre forward play. A swashbuckling cavalier, he played like a human battering ram, running through opposing defences with the verve of a Boy's Own hero. With his trademark blond quiff, he looked the part too.In the final months of his life, Hickson finally sat down to record his life story. From being scouted by the legendary Dixie Dean, playing in front of 70,000 plus crowds and vanquishing the mighty Manchester United, to being kicked out of an FA Cup semi final and playing under Bill Shankly this is a compelling and evocative tale of one of football's bygone era.Hickson lovingly recalls a world in which heroes lived alongside their fans and on a Saturday gave everything to bring them pride and joy. With contributions from friends and former teammates, The Cannonball Kid is a beautiful and absorbing story that, like the great man himself, is full of good humour, charm and class.

The Cannonball Kid

Hickson, Dave

In this huge landmark book, authors Arnie Baldursson and Gudmundur Magnusson have chronicled the individuals and incidents that made Liverpool Football Club one of the most famous institutions in world football.With full biographical entries on every man to pull on a Liverpool shirt, including some 420,000 words, hundreds of full colour photographs and utilising new and original research, the Liverpool Encyclopedia crosses new boundaries in the study of the Anfield giants.Beautifully laid out and lavishly illustrated, this will be an heirloom passed down between generations of Reds' fans. Coming just two years after the success of Liverpool: The Complete Record, Baldursson and Magnusson have created another indispensible addition to every Liverpool supporters' library.The Liverpool Encyclopedia includes:Full profiles, biographical and career information of EVERY Liverpool player to make a competitive appearance since the club's creation in 1892.More than 1100 photographs, including many rare and some previously unseen pictures.In depth profiles of every man to manage Liverpool.Articles on significant figures and moments in Anfield history.Facts, figures and statistics from the renowned LFChistory.net website; the benchmark in Reds' historical accuracy. Printed in full colour, expertly written and extravagantly illustrated throughout its 656 full colour pages, this is the essential reference work for every Liverpool supporter and student of English football.The authors' previous book, Liverpool: The Complete Record, was published to critical acclaim by deCoubertin Books in 2011.

Liverpool Encylopedia

Reference

Baldursson, Arnie

Magnusson, Gudmunder

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Love Affairs and Marriage: 1970 League Champion: My Life in Football

Now in its fourth edition, The World Cup: The Complete History, is the only book to give a truly encyclopedic guide to the greatest football show on earth.Fully revised and updated in time for the 2014 finals in Brazil, the book is renowned for its remarkable comprehensiveness. Featuring a separate chapter for every competition; every single result of every match; every single player in every team; all qualifying details; and a detailed round-up of the entire progress of each tournament, it is an indispensable addition to every football fan's bookshelf.For this new edition there is a completely new chapter on the 2010 tournament in South Africa, where co-author James Corbett reported on the scene, and also a further section detailing all the results in the qualifying phase for the 2014 finals.The World Cup represents the pinnacle of the planet's number one sport. More widely viewed, more widely contested, richer than ever before, interest, as ever, will be massive. There can be no more comprehensive or reasonably-priced companion to this feast of football.

The World Cup: The Complete History

Crouch, Terry

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