Football variants and related games Books

An Unexpected HonorIt happened on May 1, 2011 on Sunday afternoon with about seventy-five friends, former kickers and families of former kickers, coaches, my family, and other friends from the church and community. The Thomasville Athletic Boosters Club,...

My name is Bert Holcroft, I am a World Accredited Northern & SouthernHemisphere coach. I have spent a lifetime developing specialist fitness,dietry, coaching and training techniques for some of the worlds leadingsports people in All Contact Sports.May we...

A WARNING TO DEFENSIVE COACHES! READ THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!For some 130 years the Center has been given the reputation of being one of the most unimportant and least valuable positions in football even though the rules of football have given him powers...

Football is unquestionably the world's most popular and influential sport. There is no corner of the globe in which the game is not played or followed. More countries are affiliated to FIFA, football's governing body, than to the United Nations. The...

Association football is now the global sport, consumed in various ways by millions of people across the world. Throughout its history, football has been a catalyst as much for social cohesion, unity, excitement and integration as it can be for division,...

Drawing on wide-ranging archival research, this authoritative new history examines the cultural diplomatic role played by British football in international affairs, British foreign policy, and international football during the 1930s.

This book explains how the NFL determines each team's opponents and how the league's scheduling format has evolved throughout the years. It includes a history on the evolution of the pro football schedule, explores all of the scheduling formulas used...

This book examines the construction of national, regional, and group identities in the football journalism of five European countries: England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Notions of the respective national stereotypes are explored in each of the...

This book analyses the increasing use of sport in European and Western welfare states as a tool of social policy and its promotion as a solution to social problems.Midnight Football is a sports-based intervention targeting social inclusion and crime...

This is the first book in English to closely examine the life of Diego Maradona from socio-cultural perspectives, exploring how his status as an icon, a popular sporting hero, and a political figurehead has been culturally constructed, reproduced, and...

There is no doubt that Newcastle United have been involved in some absolutely brilliant games over the years.  There's been the truly memorable games such as the thrilling 4-3 defeat to Liverpool (03/04/1996) that even though Newcastle lost, the...

Follow the Saints through their amazing 2009 Super Bowl Championship season, and re-experience every game, relive every score, and savor every victory. Travel with The Saints on their long, often trying 43 years on the road to success. Compare the stats...

FC Barcelona: A Tactical Analysis - DefendingA Team from Another Planet!A Tactical Blue-Print of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona TeamThis book is an exclusive and groundbreaking study of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona team.This information and analysis of one of...

Player Development: The Holistic Method provides the first holistic, evidence-based performance development method in sport. Focusing on the world's largest sport, soccer, this book weaves together the interconnected layers driving player performance...

Andrew-Henry Bowie is a passionate Heart of Midlothian Football Club supporter. He doggedly survived a tough childhood and found solace - sort of - in his overwhelming love of football. The author engages the reader with an energetic and animated account...

For the people of West Virginia-a state that is often ridiculed and disregarded-their flagship university's Mountaineer football team is a source of pride, a shining representative for their state on the national stage. So when native son and head coach...

This blog diary creates a mosaic of David Beckham's first year in the United States. It cleverly pulls together different aspects of the "Beckham to the LA Galaxy" story to give the reader a more rounded perspective of the soccer icon's impact on America...

Rob Ryder made that pledge to his wife, and he was determined to stick to it. As technical consultant on blockbuster sports films, he had seen up close how the film business works and what kind of chaos can, and usually does, ensue. And now he was ready...

This book explores various aspects of intranational elite football in Africa, drawing on the expertise of notable scholars from across the world.Africa's Elite Football focuses on an area largely ignored by current scholarship on African football,...

This work studies the links between international football and politics in Britain between 1900 and 1939. It shows how the British government saw sport as an instrument of policy and cultural propaganda.

The identification and development of talented young players has become a central concern of football clubs at all levels of the professional game, as well as for national and international governing bodies. This is the first book to offer a...

Seasoned motivators Ken Blanchard and Don Shula share five proven secrets to helping others excel.

Youth sports aren't just about fun and games anymore. What should be a pleasurable experience is often marred by poor sportsmanship, trash talking, win-at-all-cost attitudes, and, in the worst cases, violence. But World Cup soccer champion and Olympic...

Change Signals: A Story of the New Football is a novel written by Ralph Henry Barbour and published in 1912. The book tells the story of a high school football team and their journey to the state championship. The team is led by a talented quarterback...

A twenty year history of Leeds United as captured in the pages of popular fanzine The Square Ball, from its inception in 1989 through to its brief hiatus in 2008.From the highs of both First and Second Division Championship titles with Sgt. Wilko’s...

Newcastle United enter the Football League as they accept an invitation to join the fledgling Second Division. So, for the first time League football arrived at St James's Park, welcome to Season ONE!Newcastle United ~ Season One is the game‑by‑game...

Experience the Journey Cyclone superfan Kyle Oppenhuizen wrote about his journey as an Iowa State football fan told through the lens of attending every game during the highly anticipated, always entertaining 2021 season. What he hoped was going to...

Football Fandom, Protest and Democracy offers an in-depth and inside approach to the socio-political history of football in Turkey, where fandom is often revered as part of the national identity, presenting the historical context for football events in...

Modern football is an industry and capitalism is its engine. However, this book argues for a more nuanced understanding of contemporary football culture and the (self-)identity of football fans.Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted with...

This book focuses on the advent of professional football in Liverpool and, in particular, the formation of Everton and Liverpool football clubs and their development prior to World War I. This book details the factors that led to the early...

This book examines the interplay between football, politics, violence, passion and morality in Argentina. Drawing on original ethnographic research, it considers the role of fans, club officials, politicians and others in the spread and perpetuation of...

Football fans and football culture represent a unique prism through which to view contemporary society and politics. Based on in-depth empirical research into football in Poland, this book examines how fans develop political identities and how those...

For a long time, various different lobbying sectors have claimed that the use of video technology is an effective aid in decision-making. Now the IFAB has taken a historic step in the approval of experiments on the use of video to provide support to...

The American image of Alabama during the 1960s could be summed up by two distinct, and seemingly disconnected, images: Birmingham's Bull Connor targeting hoses against civil rights marchers and Coach Paul W. "Bear" Bryant guiding University of Alabama...

Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner (1871-1954) stands among the giants of the coaching profession, alongside Knute Rockne, Amos Alonzo Stagg, George Halas and Vince Lombardi. Warner turned a ragtag team from a Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Indian boarding school...

Quarterback Dads love the attention. They love their son. They love football. But too often, they go overboard. In Quarterback Dads, you'll hear from a father who says his 14-year-old can become "the LeBron James" of football. Another who let...

The no-holds-barred story of a Wimbledon and Chelsea legend

Football may be sport, but the National Football League is at heart a business--how else to account for the stratospheric salaries of the players and coaches? Yet most people are unaware of how that business developed. This book details the growth of...

For 39 seasons at four schools, Dr. Edward N. Anderson spent autumn afternoons roaming the sidelines of college and university gridirons across America. Throughout his career, dignity, composure and a penetrating focus were hallmarks of his sideline...

The College Football America 2013 Yearbook Encyclopedia is here! College Football America is the only preseason yearbook that includes information about EVERY COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM IN AMERICA! From the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and the...

What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local football culture help us to understand the powerful international forces at play within the modern game? Based...

While women's soccer has risen in popularity around the world, research reveals persistent gender discrimination and marginalization of girls and women in the sport. Applying policy feedback theory and econometric analysis, this volume explores the...

As the digital revolution continues apace, emergent technologies and means of communication present new challenges and opportunities for the football industry. This is the first book to bring together key contemporary debates at the intersection of...