11 Top sports books like When Footballers Were Skint: A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football by Jon Henderson

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When Footballers Were Skint: A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football

By: Jon Henderson

3.80

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2019 Long before perma-tanned football agents and…

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1. Bringing Home the Ashes: Winning with England

By: Joe Root

3.85

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Fully updated to include England's series victory over South Africa and the World T20 Finals. Joe R… read more

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2. Shankly: The Leaving of Liverpool

By: James Corbett

3.84

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

On Friday 12 July 1974, Bill Shankly shocked football by announcing his retirement as Liverpool man… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Undisputed Truth

By: Mike Tyson , Larry Sloman

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world--an… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction

4. Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography

By: Alex Ferguson

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The celebratory, revealing, inspiring, and entertaining autobiography of the greatest manager in th… read more

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5. The Romford Pelé: It's only Ray Parlour's autobiography

By: Ray Parlour , Arsène Wenger

3.71

Format: 436 pages,

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6. Danish Dynamite: The Story of Football’s Greatest Cult Team

By: Rob Smyth , None , None

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

The Denmark side of the 1980s was one of the last truly iconic international football teams. Althou… read more

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7. Bizarre England: Discover the Country's Secrets and Surprises

By: None

3.67

Format: 542 pages,

In this charming book, author David Long introduces the reader to some of the oddest and most inter… read more

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8. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • nonfiction
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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. Fever Pitch

By: Nick Hornby

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more

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11. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Football and How to Survive It

By: Pat Nevin

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

'The good news for those who loved THE ACCIDENTAL this new book is even better. There were times a… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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13. We Play Games

By: Sarah A. Denzil

3.51

Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio

When the rules turn deadly, winning is everything. Only available from Audible, a gripping psych… read more

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14. The Narrator

By: K.L. Slater

3.88

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the chance of a perfect life… put your daughter in grave danger? Being a single mother i… 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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  • nonfiction
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16. Broadly Speaking

By: Stuart Broad

3.84

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Stuart Broad is the ultimate competitor - someone addicted to the pressures of Test cricket, the bi… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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17. The Man in the Bunker (Tom Wilde #6)

By: Rory Clements

4.15

Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition

WHAT IF HITLER HAD SURVIVED? In the gripping new spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling … read more

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18. When Footballers Were Skint: A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football

By: Jon Henderson

3.80

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2019 Long before perma-tanned football agents and… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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19. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK

By: Simon Kuper

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography

By: Liam Brady

4.19

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

"Being a footballer was my destiny." After being expelled from school for playing football for his … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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21. The Accidental Footballer

By: Pat Nevin

4.10

Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition

Pat Nevin never wanted to be a professional footballer. His future was clear, he'd become a teac… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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22. How to Be a Football Manager

By: Ian Holloway

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

*** SHORTLISTED FOR SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 20… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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23. The Boy on the Shed

By: Paul Ferris

4.38

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year AwardThe Sunday Times Sports Book of the Y… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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24. Michael Carrick: Between the Lines: My Autobiography

By: Michael Carrick

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Michael Carrick is one of the most decorated English players of all time, best known for his 12-yea… read more

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  • sports
  • football
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25. Mosquito: The Original Multi-Role Combat Aircraft

By: Graham M. Simons

4.21

Format: 517 pages, Kindle Edition

The "Wooden Wonder" - as the de Havilland Mosquito was affectionately known - entered the 1939-1945… read more

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26. Who Are Ya?: 92 Football Clubs – and Why You Shouldn’t Support Them (Globalizing Sport Studies)

By: Kevin Day

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Excellent" The Times "Kevin's immense knowledge shines on every page." Gary Lineker "A football … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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27. The World's Biggest Cash Machine: Manchester United, the Glazers, and the Struggle for Football's Soul

By: Chris Blackhurst

4.19

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

From Chris Blackhurst, the former Editor of the Independent , comes a gripping and tightly reported… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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28. Cheer Up Peter Reid: My Autobiography

By: Peter Reid

4.18

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Peter Reid is one of the most revered and colourful characters to emerge from England over the last… read more

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  • football
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29. Feed The Beast: Jon Parkin

By: Jon Parkin

3.91

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

Spoilt. Overpaid. Ungrateful. Removed from reality. These words are often used to describe modern d… read more

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  • football
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30. In the Thick of It

By: Alan Duncan

3.61

Format: 594 pages, Kindle Edition

As Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Alan Duncan was once described as Boris Johnson’s ‘poop… read more

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  • nonfiction

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4.20

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Alex Gerlis

4.53

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4.07

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