Mainstream Digital imprint: 404 books
by Kenny Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
In this, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed first volume of quotations about our national sport, Kenny MacDonald delves once more into Scotland's sweaty, smelly football dressing-rooms and emerges with a batch of statements which are profond, amusing, acerbic and sometimes plain bizarre.
Eddie Turnbull
Having a Ball
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
As the first British player to score a goal in European club competition in 1955, Hibs hero Eddie Turnbull holds a unique place in footballing history. In Eddie Turnbull: Having a Ball, he charts his extraordinary career and tells the story of his eventful life so far.
Turnbull explains how...
Red Machine
Liverpool FC in the '80s: The Players' Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
During the 1980s, Liverpool Football Club dominated English football, winning six league titles, two European Cups, two FA Cups and four League Cups. In Red Machine, Simon Hughes interviews some of the most colourful characters to have played for the club during that period. The resulting interviews,...
Bring Me the Head of Trevor Brooking
Three Decades of East End Soap Opera at West Ham United
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
West Ham United last won a major trophy in 1980, but the roller-coaster ride of the past three decades has produced enough twists and turns, heroes and villains and contrasting emotions to grace the script of the most thrilling TV soap opera.
Since Trevor Brooking headed home the FA Cup final...
We Are the Damned United
The Real Story of Brian Clough at Leeds United
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Brian Clough's forty-four-day tenure as manager of Leeds United in 1974 is one of the most infamous episodes in British football history.
While the bestselling The Damned United was a fictional account of Clough's short-lived but controversial reign at the club, We Are the Damned United reveals...
Seeing Red
Twelve Tumultuous Years in Welsh Rugby
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Alun Carter experienced the highs and lows of the Wales national rugby squad throughout his 12 years working for the WRU. During this time, he saw a number of high-profile coaches come and go, and in Seeing Red he delivers a brutally honest account of what it was like to work with each of them. From...
Rebels for the Cause
The Alternative History of Arsenal Football Club
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Arsenal's on-field success has been well documented. But what has never been written before is the equally remarkable history of Arsenal's rebels, both on and off the pitch. Spanning almost 120 years, and set against a backdrop of turbulent social and political change, Rebels for the Cause assesses...
Newcastle United
Fifty Years of Hurt
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
When Newcastle United crashed out of the FA Cup in Cardiff in April 2005, it was official: the second best-supported club in England and the eleventh richest in the world had completed 50 years without winning a domestic trophy.
Since their last success - an FA Cup win in 1955 - no less than...
The Toon
A Complete History of Newcastle United Football Club
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
This is the full story, unofficial and uncensored, of one of the greatest football clubs in the country. From its birth in the 1890s to its rebirth in the 1990s and up to season 2003-4, The Toon tells of a small soccer club, long in the shadow of an enormous rival, which grew to eclipse that rival...
Jungle Tales
Celtic Memories of an Epic Stand
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Years of tradition crashed around the ears of Celtic supporters when the Jungle was demolished and replaced by seating to conform with the Taylor Report. It might never have been the most attractive setting in which to watch football but to the fans who occupied the gentle slopes under the covered...
Celtic: The Awakening
From East End Misfits to European Masters
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Celtic strode majestically into the history books in 1967 as the first British club to conquer Europe, and the iconic photograph of captain Billy McNeill holding aloft the glittering European Cup in the Lisbon sunshine is the defining image of that footballing era. Yet at the start of the decade,...
Heroes are Forever
The Life and Times of Celtic Legend Jimmy McGrory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
James Edward McGrory (1904-82) is a Celtic legend, remembered today as the greatest goal-scorer in the history of Scottish football. His record of 550 goals in his 15-year career at Parkhead from 1922 to 1937 is unlikely to be surpassed and will stand forever as a memorial to a player who was a typical...
by Jim Craig, Pat Woods
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Celtic Football Club’s story is laced with drama and excitement, featuring a host of colourful individuals and a social history matched by few, if any, football clubs.
In Celtic: Pride and Passion, Lisbon Lion Jim Craig and Pat Woods, a historian of the club, take a fresh look at several...
by John Cairney
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Those who have been football supporters all their lives can never forget the first match they ever saw, although they might not recall the result. This is because it is the players that stay in the memory and the magic moments they provided for millions of spectators in their time.Every generation...