After fans on Tottenham Hotspur online forums claim that Alan Gilzean, the former Tottenham Hotspur, Dundee, and Scotland striker, is living as a down-and-out, James Morgan, a lifelong Spurs fan and sports journalist sets out on a journey to uncover the truth behind the legend of his late father’s soccer hero. Morgan’s portrait of the original King of White Hart Lane restores him to his rightful place in soccer folklore and stands as the only faithful testimony to the life of a bona fide British soccer legend.

In Search of Alan Gilzean: Lost Legacy of a Dundee and Spurs Legend

MORGAN, JAMES

Biographies & Memoirs

BackPage Press

Barcelona is the greatest soccer team in the world, the greatest for a generation, and possibly the greatest of all time. This is the inside story of how the team came to redefine how the game is played, told by the journalist closer to it than any other. This edition contains a new epilogue reflecting on the departure of Pep Guardiola and Spain's victory at Euro 2012. It is of huge interest to anyone who loves the way this team plays soccer, which is anyone who loves the game.

Barça: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World

Sports & Outdoors

Hunter, Graham

Soccer

Football Manager, one of the biggest-selling computer games in the world, is 20 years old. Football Manager Stole My Life celebrates the cultural phenomenon of a game that has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Football Manager Stole My Life lifts the lid on the cult of Football Manager (FM). It is an easy-to-read, highly illustrated, light-hearted guide to the game’s lasting impact on popular culture. We hear from the gamers whose lives have been taken over by FM, a game cited in 35 divorce cases in the UK. There are interviews with the players who become world beaters in the game, but in real life never make the big leagues. The incredible scouting network of Sports Interactive is revealed. We speak to the men who make the game, and put an FM addict on the psychologist’s couch to discover what 20 years as a virtual manager has done to him.

Football Manager Stole My Life: 20 Years of Beautiful Obsession

Computers & Technology

Macintosh, Iain

Millar, Kenny

White,Neil

Games & Strategy Guides

Sean Fallon is one of British soccer’s great untold stories. For the first time, the Celtic legend speaks candidly about his time as Jock’s Stein’s right-hand man and how together they ruled Scottish soccer and conquered Europe with the Lisbon Lions. We learn how the Irishman shaped Celtic’s glory era of the 1960s and 1970s by signing not only the majority of the Lions, but also players such as Kenny Dalglish, Danny McGrain, Lou Macari, George Connelly, Davie Hay, Pat Bonner, and Paul McStay. Fallon also reflects on his stellar playing career including the 7-1 League Cup final win over Rangers in 1957, the lean years of the early 1960s, and the uneasy final stages of his and Stein’s tenure at Celtic. His own, oft-underestimated role as talent spotter and tactician is illuminated by revealing interviews with the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson, former Celtic boss Neil Lennon, chief executive Peter Lawwell, Stein’s son George, Sean’s family, and former colleagues.

Sean Fallon: Celtic's Iron Man

Sullivan, Stephen

Through incredible insider access and interviews with all the big names—including Fernando Torres, Xavi, Iker Casillas, David Villa, Cesc Fàbregas, Andrés Iniesta, and Gerard Piqué—Graham Hunter tells the story of the greatest achievement in the history of international soccer. Between 2008 and 2012, Spain were the best team on the planet, winning three consecutive tournament—two European Championships plus the World Cup in South Africa—with a thrilling brand of soccer. Hunter’s access to the greatest international team of all time was unparalleled. He was inside the dressing room for the celebrations after the World Cup final and had a fly-on-the-wall perspective on how they trained and prepared for their historic achievements.

Spain: The Inside Story of La Roja's Historic Treble

Pirlo’s profile could not be much higher, having competed in the Champions League final in May 2015 and then embarking on a new career signing with MLS side New York City FC in July 2015. The vibrancy, humor and vivid insight that carry Pirlo’s autobiography along confounds his image as a dead-eyed assassin on the field of play. All the big names are in there: Lippi, Ancelotti, Conte, Maldini, Shevchenko, Seedorf, Buffon, Kaka, Nesta, Costacurta, Gattuso, Berlusconi and Ronaldo (“the real one”). But they’re not always in their work clothes. We hear Berlusconi playing the piano and telling “various types” of joke at Milan’s training ground. We see Pirlo and Daniele De Rossi drawing Nesta’s ire as they take him on a mystery tour of the German countryside in a hire car days before a World Cup semi-final. And we smell the aftermath of Filippo Inzaghi’s graphically described pre-match routine.

I Think Therefore I Play

Pirlo, Andrea

Alciato, Alessandro

When Alan Rowan finished his shifts as a sub-editor at a national newspaper at midnight, he knew he was too jacked up on deadline adrenaline to attempt sleep. At the same time, he was starting to worry if he would ever complete his ambition: to reach the summit of every "Munro" in Scotland—those peaks of over 3000 feet. One crazy night, he decided upon a single solution to both problems. He would begin his ascents in the middle of the night, see the sun rise above the clouds and then come down the mountain just as everyone else was going up, before arriving home to have breakfast with his unsuspecting family. Moonwalker is part guide to the magnificent Munros of Scotland, part memoir, part comedy, part adventure yarn, part tragedy. We see Alan’s transformation from desk jockey to midnight mountaineer, meet dodgy car salesmen, rabid sheepdogs, charging deer, superstitious Germans and crooked confectioners—all the while seeing the best of Scotland in a unique light.

Moonwalker: Adventures of a Midnight Mountaineer

Rowan, Alan

Hiking & Camping

In Search of Alan Gilzean: The Lost Legacy of a Dundee and Spurs Legend

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