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…
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1. Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
By: Irvine Welsh
4.05
Format: 548 pages, Paperback
Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at universit… read more
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"Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"but ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
2. 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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- history
- soccer
- nonfiction
- football
- sports
"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
3. Penso quindi gioco
By: Andrea Pirlo , Alessandro Alciato
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
"Per me il gruppo conta tantissimo, ma se mi dimenticassi di me stesso toglierei forza proprio ai m… read more
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- italy
- biography
- soccer
- nonfiction
- football
- italian literature
- sports
"After the wheel, the PlayStation is the best invention of all time."-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco
"I don’t give a toss about pressure. I spent afternoon sleeping and playing Playstation. Then I went out and won the World Cup."-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco
"It’s an enemy that I can’t allow to wound me a second time. It’s already done enough damage: most of it hidden far from the surface."-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco
"- Mino, toglimi una curiosità. Come si pronuncia il tuo cognome? Dove va l’accento? Ràiola o Raiòla? - Come vuoi tu, basta che mi paghi."-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco
4. Porno
By: Irvine Welsh
3.31
Format: None pages,
Diez anos despues de Trainspotting, Sick Boy esta en franca decadencia. Acaba de dejar su piso en u… read more
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5. The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy
By: Joe McGinniss
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
Master storyteller Joe McGinniss travels to Italy to cover the unlikely success of a ragtag minor l… read more
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- italy
- history
- soccer
- nonfiction
- football
- sports
6. A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke
By: Ronald Reng
3.62
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, the biography of Robert Enke, the international… read more
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- biography
- soccer
- nonfiction
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7. 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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- history
- soccer
- nonfiction
- football
- sports
8. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
By: John Foot
4.43
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
The first history of Italian football to be written in English, 'Calcio' is a mix of serious analys… read more
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9. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
10. The Sportswriter
By: Richard Ford
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely … read more
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11. A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character . . . and Goals!
By: Tim Parks
4.34
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
After 20 years of living in Italy, Tim parks, whom Joseph Brodsky has called the best British autho… read more
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12. 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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- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"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
13. My Life in Red and White
By: Arsène Wenger
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For the very first time, world-renowned and revolutionary football manager Arsène Wenger tells his … read more
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- history
- biography
- soccer
- nonfiction
- football
- sports
14. 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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- history
- soccer
- nonfiction
- football
- sports
"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
15. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
16. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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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- history
- soccer
- nonfiction
- football
- sports
18. Building the Yellow Wall: The Incredible Rise and Cult Appeal of Borussia Dortmund
By: Uli Hesse
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 Towards the beginning of the twenty-first… read more
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- soccer
- sports
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- football
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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- soccer
- sports
- nonfiction
- football
20. Scheisse! We're Going Up!
By: Kit Holden
4.42
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A CLUB ON THE RISE AND A CITY IN FLUX. THIS IS UNION BERLIN. No footb… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
- football
21. 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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- history
- soccer
- nonfiction
- football
- sports
22. The Barcelona Legacy: Guardiola, Mourinho and the Fight For Football's Soul
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.07
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
Manchester, 2018: Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho lead their teams out to face each other in the 17… read more
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- soccer
- sports
- nonfiction
- football
23. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
24. Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography
By: Limmy
4.34
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
The hysterical, shocking and incredibly intimate memoir from one of the most original and unique co… read more
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- biography
"Back in primary, I had this feeling like I’d missed a day. Not just a normal day where they taught you how to read or write, but where they taught you something else, something more important. Someth…"-Limmy, Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography
25. 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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- italy
- history
- biography
- politics
- soccer
- nonfiction
- football
- italian literature
- sports
26. 1312: Among the Ultras, A journey with the world's most extreme fans
By: James Montague
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
You can see us, but you don't know us. Ultras are football fans like no others. Fiercely loyal, … read more
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- history
- politics
- soccer
- nonfiction
- football
- sports
27. 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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- soccer
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- sports
28. 1999: Manchester United, the Treble and All That
By: Matt Dickinson
4.47
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HIL… read more
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- nonfiction
- football
29. Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
By: Henry Hemming
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four Shots in the Night is the story of the killing of Frank Hegarty, an IRA member turned British … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
30. Gazza in Italy
By: Daniel Storey
3.76
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant, funny and insightful analysis of Paul Gascoigne’s crazy up and downs during his three … read more
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- sports
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31. The Magic in the Tin: From the author of the critically acclaimed THE BOY ON THE SHED
By: Paul Ferris
4.50
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
'A triumph ... A worthy follow-up to The Boy on the Shed .' - Jeff Stelling 'All men should read t… read more
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