Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever
By: Rory Smith
3.84
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs …
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1. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.15
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study tr… read more
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"Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right."-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
"Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse."-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
"كان مينوتي شخصية رومانسية بشكل يفوق الوصف. كان نحيلا كقلم رصاص، ومدخنا شرها يتدل شعره على ياقته، أشيب السوالف، وله نظرة محدقة كصقر، بدا كما لو كان تجسيدا للبوهيمية الأرجنتينية، كان جناحأ أيسر ومفكرا،…"-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
2. Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina
By: Jonathan Wilson
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Roman Riquelme, Sergio Aguero, Lionel Messi ... Argentina i… read more
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3. Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World
By: Raphael Honigstein
4.42
Format: 718 pages,
July 13th 2014, World Cup Final, the last ten minutes of extra time: Germany forward Mario Gotze, r… read more
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4. Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches
By: Carlo Ancelotti
0.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Ancelotti is Europe's greatest manager -- Paul Hayward Telegraph He's a great coach and an amazing … read more
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5. Soccernomics
By: Stefan Szymanski , Simon Kuper
4.67
Format: 88 pages,
Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America dominate the sport internationally… read more
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6. Moneyball
By: Michael Lewis
4.26
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more
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"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
7. The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong
By: Chris Anderson , David Sally
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Moneyballmeets Freakonomicsin this myth-busting guide to understanding--and winning--the most popul… read more
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8. Pep Confidential: The Inside Story of Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich
By: None
3.29
Format: None pages,
Marti Perarnau was given total access to Bayern Munich during season 2013-14. This book represents … read more
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9. The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines
By: Michael Cox
3.88
Format: 496 pages,
An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League… read more
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10. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
11. Revolution: The Rise of Arteta’s Arsenal
By: Charles Watts
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of Mikel Arteta’s astonishing transformation of Arsenal November 2019. Unai Eme… read more
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12. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
By: Joshua Robinson
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wi… read more
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"The rise of the English Premier League is a story about the sports world's wildest gold rush. In the span of twenty-five years, the league's twenty clubs have increased their combined value by 10,000…"-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
"I'm not saying that we're Disney, but if you think about it, it's not that dissimilar, Berrada said. We have characters - which are players - that our fans relate to; we put on a show every three or …"-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
13. Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket
By: Stefan Szymanski
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
One of the bestselling authors of Soccernomics, Stefan Szymanski, teams up with the award-winning c… read more
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14. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
By: Ian Dunt
4.45
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more
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15. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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16. The Trading Game: A Confession
By: Gary Stevenson
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more
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17. Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football
By: Michael Cox
4.37
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Continental football has always cast a spell over the imagination. From the attacking flair of Real… read more
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18. Answered Prayers: England and the 1966 World Cup
By: Duncan Hamilton
4.54
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
'Magnificent, moving, often funny and deeply researched account . . . Is this just a book for those… read more
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19. Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever
By: Rory Smith
3.84
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs … read more
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20. The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
By: Simon Kuper
4.24
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times j… read more
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21. Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution
By: Christoph Biermann
4.25
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
Well written and thoughtful. Takes us on a tour of some of Europe's most innovative football thinke… read more
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22. The Game: Player. Pundit. Fan.
By: Micah Richards
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
‘The game isn’t what it seems from the outside. The game isn’t quite what I was expecting. The game… read more
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23. The Expected Goals Philosophy: A Game-Changing Way of Analysing Football
By: James Tippett
3.58
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
The Expected Goals method is football’s best-kept secret. The metric gives unparalleled insight int… read more
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24. Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football
By: Tobias Jones
4.01
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
Italy's ultras are the most organised and violent fans in European football. Many groups have evolv… read more
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25. Data Game: The Story of Liverpool FC's Analytics Revolution
By: Josh Williams
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Data Game: The Story of Liverpool FC's Analytics Revolution explores the lesser-known story of how … read more
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26. Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution
By: Ryan O'Hanlon
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth examination of the rise of analytics in soccer and the wild experiments unfolding aroun… read more
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27. How To Watch Football: 52 Rules for Understanding the Beautiful Game, On and Off the Pitch
By: Tifo - The Athletic
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
'I love Tifo' Ian Wright 'Tifo are great' Alan Shearer 'Tifo have changed the game when it comes to… read more
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28. Pep Lijnders: Intensity: Inside Liverpool FC
By: Pep Lijnders
3.88
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
“OUR IDENTITY IS INTENSITY,” declares Liverpool FC assistant-manager Pep Lijnders in this compellin… read more
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29. A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer
By: Suzanne Wrack
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and comprehensive history charting the rise, fall, and rise again of women's soccer W… read more
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30. The Three Lives of the Kaiser
By: Uli Hesse
3.88
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Franz Beckenbauer is Germany's greatest-ever football player and one of the game's biggest icons of… read more
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31. How to Win the Premier League: The Sunday Times Bestselling Inside Story of Football's Data Revolution
By: Ian Graham
4.36
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
'The best book on football I have ever read' Daniel Finkelstein'Deserves a place among the great mo… read more
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