10 Best football books like Nowhere to Run: The Ridiculous Life of a Semi-Professional Football Club Chairman by Jonathan Sayer

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Nowhere to Run: The Ridiculous Life of a Semi-Professional Football Club Chairman

By: Jonathan Sayer

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the second oldest football pitch in the world, Jonathan Sayer stands atop a beer crate to addres…

If you liked the football plot in Nowhere to Run: The Ridiculous Life of a Semi-Professional Football Club Chairman by Jonathan Sayer , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. 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

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2. The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)

By: Mark Billingham

4.11

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingh… read more

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3. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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4. 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
  • football
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5. Four Stars: A Life, Reviewed

By: Joel Golby

4.10

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

The second book from acclaimed writer and journalist Joel Golby ‘There’s no one funnier than Joe… read more

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6. Unbreakable

By: Ronnie O'Sullivan

3.90

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2023 AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER… read more

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  • sports
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7. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

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8. Hunted

By: Abir Mukherjee

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A breakout thriller from an “enthralling” and award-winning writer: can two parents find their lost… read more

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9. T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen

By: Peter Kay

4.23

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure*Blockbusters, Baywatch … Mastermind, Moonl… read more

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10. Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV

By: Rob Burley

4.23

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider account of 25 years working at the very top of Britis… read more

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11. Kammy: The Funny and Moving Autobiography by the Broadcasting Legend

By: Chris Kamara

4.30

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Foreword by Ben Shephard‘Everyone loves Kammy . . . Full of humour and endless blunders’ – The Time… read more

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  • sports
  • football
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12. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People

By: Stuart Maconie

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more

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13. My Wrexham Story: The Inspirational Autobiography From The Beloved Football Hero

By: Paul Mullin

4.09

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

The memoir from Wrexham super striker, Paul Mullin - as seen in Welcome to Wrexham, a Disney+ docum… read more

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  • sports
  • football
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14. The Hard Yards: A Season in the Championship, England's Toughest League

By: Nige Tassell

3.84

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Gus Poyet declared it to be the toughest league in England. Neil Warnock went further, believing i… read more

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  • sports
  • football
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15. 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
  • football
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16. How to be an Ex-Footballer

By: Peter Crouch

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The first truly insider guide to being a Premiership footballer, from Britain's funniest sporting i… read more

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  • football
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17. Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other

By: John Preston

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The unforgettable story, decades before Ted Lasso, of the real-life Watford Football Team, transfor… read more

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  • sports
  • football
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18. Fight!: Thirty Years Not Quite at the Top

By: Harry Hill

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A TIMES BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2021 'The funniest man in the world has written the funniest book in t… read more

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19. The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2)

By: Mark Billingham

4.41

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from m… read more

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20. 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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  • sports
  • football
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21. In a Place of Darkness

By: Stuart MacBride

4.38

Format: 527 pages, Kindle Edition

THE CLOCK IS TICKING...Detective Constable Angus MacVicar has just landed his dream job – transferr… read more

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Cover of Nowhere to Run: The Ridiculous Life of a Semi-Professional Football Club Chairman by Jonathan Sayer

22. Nowhere to Run: The Ridiculous Life of a Semi-Professional Football Club Chairman

By: Jonathan Sayer

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the second oldest football pitch in the world, Jonathan Sayer stands atop a beer crate to addres… read more

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  • football
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23. 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
  • football
Cover of Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion by Jonathan Levi and Emma French

24. Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion

By: Jonathan Levi and Emma French

3.59

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

HMP Wakefield. 'Monster Mansion'. Hell to be inside. Almost impossible to escape. This prison has s… read more

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25. My Family: The Memoir

By: David Baddiel

4.41

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more

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26. Parenting Hell

By: Rob Beckett

4.25

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE MADNESS, ABSURDITY, AND UTTER CHAOS OF BEING A PARENT FROM THE… read more

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27. A Fan for All Seasons

By: Jon Harvey

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A funny, heartfelt, nostalgia-infused story of grief, sport and the journey of a lifetime.What do y… read more

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28. Tiger Tiger: His Life as It's Never Been Told Before

By: James Patterson

4.02

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The impossible life of Tiger Woods—how did he become the GOAT, and what drove him to fall so specta… read more

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  • sports
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29. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

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30. My Fishing Life

By: Ashley Mullenger

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Ashley Mullenger had never planned to become a fisherman. A chance fishing trip - catching mackerel… read more

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Football and How to Survive It

Pat Nevin

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Unbreakable

Ronnie O'Sullivan

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Kammy: The Funny and Moving Autobiography by the Broadcasting Legend

Chris Kamara

4.30

Transform Your Habits

My Wrexham Story: The Inspirational Autobiography From The Beloved Football Hero

Paul Mullin

4.09

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Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

Jennifer Saunders

3.85

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How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

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Billy Connolly

4.16

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