Soccer: The Ultimate Guide

A fun and educational title teaches children everything they need to know to get ready for soccer season--from learning basic rules and finding local organizations to exploring the history and players of the sport. Simultaneous.

Children's Books

Saunders, Catherine

Dakin, Glenn

Cloake, Martin

Powley, Adam

Radnedge, Aidan

Sports & Outdoors

DK Pub.

The politics of football culture is starting to mean something again, and Martin Cloake – the best writer on the subject today – has sketched the bases of English football's culture wars. Beautifully written, this collection of his pieces in New Statesman, Thin White Line, The Football Pink and elsewhere are absolutely indispensable for anyone remotely interested in how the so-called beautiful game could become so dirty, sordid, greedy and plain stupid and yet still hold the attention of ‘the people’ who were invoked in all those homilies about the ‘people’s game’.

Taking Our Ball Back: English Football's Culture Wars

Football (American)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A People's History of Tottenham Hotspur is the story of how fans helped create the identity of a world-famous club and tells a story from a perspective rarely acknowledged. Drawing on social history, contemporary press reports and first-hand interviews with the fans themselves, authors Martin Cloake and Alan Fisher trace the club's development from being the team of the suburbs and the rising south, through the glory years and the arrival of mass, popular culture, and into the modern era of the game. It is not a tale of trophies won and lost, of players bought and sold. Instead, it is the story of how one of the game's oldest and most famous teams was formed and established by its fans and how its identity was created by them. It evaluates how the fans' relationship with the club has evolved, as the game has changed: from those bygone days, when a club was at the heart of a local community, to the modern era, where the world's leading football clubs have to compete as multinational 'brands', appealing to fans on a global scale, stretching much further and wider than the north London footprint than the club's founders would have ever imagined.

A People's History of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club: How Spurs Fans Shaped the Identity of One of the World’s Most Famous Clubs

Fisher, Alan

Soccer

Pitch Publishing Ltd

<div>The tale of Tottenham Hotspur's extraordinary run to the 2019 Champions League Final in Madrid. Authors Alex Fynn and Martin Cloake examine how Spurs confounded all predictions to enjoy their most successful ever CL campaign--and what it means for the future. They explain why a certain style of football and competing in Europe are central to the club's identity, and look at how manager Mauricio Pochettino drew on these traditions to create a very modern success story. Using match reports from national newspapers to provide the narrative thread, Fynn and Cloake draw on their backgrounds in football business and politics to explain why this campaign so fired the imagination--in a season with no signings, played mostly without a home stadium. With a rich cast of characters, insight from leading football figures and locations ranging from Eindhoven to Madrid via Barcelona and Dortmund--and one emotional night in Amsterdam--One Step from Glory tells the story of a football odyssey.</div>

One Step from Glory: Tottenham's 2018/19 Champions League

Fynn, Alex

This book comes with Steve Perryman, Ossie Ardiles, Ricky Villa, Graham Roberts, Paul Miller, Garry Brooke, Chris Hughton, Tony Galvin and more. Before the Premier League, Grand Slam Sundays, executive boxes and multi-millionaire reserves, Tottenham had "The Boys From White Hart Lane" - a tight-knit group of London lads laced with Latin creativity, Yorkshire grit and Scottish genius. Under manager Keith Burkinshaw the Spurs team of the late 1970s and 1980s fought their way back from relegation, one of the club's lowest points, to two FA Cup triumphs and European glory, in so doing cementing their place in Tottenham legend.This is the story of that team in the players' own words - from the Wembley wins to marathon drinking sessions in Swaziland; from swapping stories with the fans over a post-match pint to swapping punches with team-mates on the training pitch. Based on exclusive interviews with Steve Perryman, Osvaldo Ardiles, Ricky Villa, Graham Roberts, Paul Miller, Tony Galvin, Chris Hughton and others, this is an intimate and revealing portrait of football before the hype, and of the team which put the glory back into Spurs. "A cracking read. This is the real story of the greatest team I played in - and had the honour of captaining - and it's full of stories even I didn't know." - Steve Perryman.

The Boys from White Hart Lane

Vision Sports Publishing

Whose kit did Spurs copy when they switched to white and blue? How did Ossie Ardiles dent the FA Cup? Find out in the fully revised and updated new edition of the bestselling Spurs Miscellany. With a stylish dark blue and white quarter-bound cover and a foreword by White Hart Lane legend Steve Perryman, the book is packed with stats, lists, quotes, anecdotes and tables from the history of Tottenham Hotspur FC.

The Spurs Miscellany

A fully revised and updated edition of a popular seller, which will delight fans of one of Britain's most prestigious clubs. As well as providing answers to a wealth of trivia questions, the book includes all-new information to bring it up to date as of the 2011/2012 season.

Reference

Almanacs & Yearbooks

In 1899 Spurs had a problem. The football club formed as â€˜Hotspur FCâ€™ just 17 years previously was now so popular that their 14,000 capacity ground at Northumberland Park was unable to cope with the growing crowds. So, in the summer of that year a former nursery for growing fruit and veg located on land behind the nearby White Hart pub was purchased and a pitch marked out. The rest, as they say, is history. And what a history! From its new home â€“ known as White Hart Lane despite never being officially named as such â€“ Spurs blossomed into one of the worldâ€™s most famous and illustrious football clubs, and with a ground to match. Monumental new stands were erected so that by the 1930s â€˜The Laneâ€™ could accommodate crowds of more than 70,000. The Lane is a unique portrait of one of one of footballâ€™s great cathedrals, and the most comprehensive study of the ground ever published. Packed with exhaustive detail and insight, and drawing on a treasure trove of classic photographs and illustrations, this lavish coffee table book tells the full history of the stadium, its iconic features, the greatest games it has hosted, and includes exclusive interviews with Spurs legends who have played on the famous turf.

The Lane: The Official History of the World Famous Home of the Spurs

Still Dreaming: Another Year in the Life of a Premier League Club [US edition]

Dark River

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Soccer: The Ultimate Guide

Soccer: The Ultimate Guide

Taking Our Ball Back: English Football's Culture Wars

A People's History of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club: How Spurs Fans Shaped the Identity of One of the World’s Most Famous Clubs

One Step from Glory: Tottenham's 2018/19 Champions League

The Boys from White Hart Lane

The Spurs Miscellany

The Spurs Miscellany

The Lane: The Official History of the World Famous Home of the Spurs

Still Dreaming: Another Year in the Life of a Premier League Club [US edition]