Book Reviews
From time to time we like to gather our thoughts on a particular football read and post them here. Below are a list of links to what passes as a review around these parts.
50 Teams that Mattered
by David Hartrick
Addicted
by Tony Adams
AFC Wimbledon: a Pictorial History
by Graham Moody
African Soccerscapes
by Peter Alegi
A Life Too Short
by Ronald Reng
The Agony and the Ecstasy
by Richard Foster
A Natural
by Ross Raisin
And Gazza Misses the Final
by Rob Smyth and Scott Murray
Angels with Dirty Faces
by Jonathan Wilson
A Strange Kind of Glory
by Eamon Dunphy
The A to Z of Football Hates
by Richard C. Foster
The Away End
by Dean Mansell
Behind the Curtain
by Jonathan Wilson
Bendelow and Kidd’s Dictionary of Football
Ian Bendelow and Jamie Kidd
Big Fry
by Barry Fry with Phil Rostron
Big Mal
by David Tossell
Black Boots & Football Pinks
by Daniel Gray
Blowing the Whistle
by Toni Schumacher
Boozing, Betting and Brawling: the Autobiography of Mel Sterland
by Mel Sterland with Nick Johnson
Born to be a Baggie
by Dean Walton
The Bottom Corner
by Nige Tassell
The Chairman’s Daughter
by Ian Plenderleith
Charlton Athletic: A Pictorial History
by David C. Ramzan
The Club
by Simon Akam
The Country of Football
by Paulo Fontes and Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda
Danish Dynamite
by Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen and Mike Gibbons
Das Reboot
by Raphael Honigstein
English Gentlemen and World Soccer
by Chris Bolsmann and Dilwyn Porter
The Evergreen in Red and White
by Steven Kay
The Far Corner
by Harry Pearson
Female Football Fans
by Carrie Dunn
Fever Pitch
by Nick Hornby
Football, Corruption and Lies
by John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson
Football Lexicon
by David Woodhouse and John Leigh
Football’s Twelve Apostles
by Thomas Taw
From Graveyard to Ambition
by Phil Sumbler
From the Back Page to the Front Room
by Roger Domeneghetti
Futebol Nation
by David Goldblatt
The Game of our Lives
by David Goldblatt
Glory Glory
by Andy Mitten
Glory, Goals & Greed
by Joe Lovejoy
Graduation
by Richard Lee
Grobar
by James Moor
Haircuts and League Cups
by Daniel Ivery and Will Giles
Hard Case
by Jimmy Case
Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters
by Daniel Gray
Heartland
by Anthony Cartwright
Highs, Lows & Bakayokos
by Jim Keoghan
Hunting Grounds
by Gary Sutherland
I am Zlatan Ibrahimović
by Zlatan Ibrahimović and David Lagercrantz
The Illustrated History of Football
by David Squires
Immortal: The Approved Biography of George Best
by Duncan Hamilton
Inverting the Pyramid
by Jonathan Wilson
Kissing the Badge
by Phil Ascough
Left Foot in the Grave
by Garry Nelson
Living on the Volcano
by Michael Calvin
The Long Way
by A. E. Greb
Made in Sheffield
by Neil Warnock with Oliver Holt
The Manager
by Barney Ronay
The Man with Maradona’s Shirt
by Steve Hodge
Memorabilia
by Nick Richards
The Mixer
by Michael Cox
Moneyball
by Michael Lewis
My Autobiography
by Alex Ferguson
My Favourite Year
Edited by Nick Hornby
The Night of the Virgin
by Elliott Turner
The Nowhere Men
by Michael Calvin
The Old Firm
by Bill Murray
Only a Game
by Eamon Dunphy
Ooh-Aah: The Bob Booker Story
by Greville Waterman
One Football, No Nets
by Justin Walley
On the Brink
by Simon Hughes
Orientation
by Adam Michie
Paradise Road
by Stephen O’Donnell
Pay As You Play
by Paul Tomkins, Graeme Reilly and Gary Futcher
Promised Land
by Anthony Clavane
Punk Football
by Jim Keoghan
Quiet Genius
by Ian Herbert
Rafa’s Way
by Martin Hardy
Real Madrid & Barcelona: The Making of a Rivalry
by Elliott Turner
Red Card Roy
by Roy McDonough
Red or Dead
by David Peace
Retired
by Alan Gernon
The Routledge Handbook of Football Studies
edited by John Hughson, Kevin Moore, Ramà³n Spaaij and Joseph Maguire
Roy Bentley’s Stationary Club
by Roger Titford
Roy Keane: the Second Half
by Roy Keane with Roddy Doyle
Russian Winters
by Andrei Kanchelskis
Saturday, 3pm
by Daniel Gray
Savage Enthusiasm
by Paul Brown
Scotball
by Stephen O’Donnell
Small Town Dreams
by J. F. Cumming
The Smell of Football
by Mick Rathbone
Soccernomics / Why England Lose
by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
Sport in Capitalist Society
by Tony Collins
Sport Italia
by Simon Martin
The Sum of the Parts
by Jon Keen
Tales from the Secret Footballer
There to be Shot At
by Tony Coton
Ticket to the Moon
by Richard Sydenham
The Transfer Market
by Alan Gernon
Tor!
by Uli Hesse
Tunnel of Love
by Martin Hardy
The Unbelievables
by David Bevan
The Unfortunates
by B.S. Johnson
The Very Best of Pitch Invasion
edited by Tom Dunmore
Watford FC On This Day
by Matt Rowson
The Wanderer
by Susan Gardiner
We Don’t Know What We’re Doing
by Adrian Chiles
When Football Came Home
by Michael Gibbons
Where’s Your Caravan?
by Chris Hargreaves
Wings of a Sparrow
by Dougie Brimson
York City: Fighting Back
by Dave Flett
You Are The Ref
by Paul Trevillion and Keith Hackett
If publishers would like to send us review copies of any forthcoming titles, then one of us will be more than happy to read them and offer our verdict on these pages. Email info@thetwounfortunates.com if you’re interested.