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The Foreign Revolution – How Overseas Footballers Changed the English Game A well-researched and informative history which examines how overseas players have influenced the English game from the first foreign footballers who arrived in the late 19th Century through to the present day. Published in 2006. Size: 156mm x 233mm – 456 pages. Softback Price: £14.99 • EUR € • US $

German Football – History, Culture, Society An academic study which provides an analysis of the place of football in the life of post-war and post-reunification Germany, revealing the motives and drives underlying Germany's successful bid to hos the 2006 World Cup Finals. Published in 2006. Size: 156mm x 233mm – 258 pages. Softback Price: £29.99 • EUR € • US $

How Football Explains the World The author, an American journalist and football fan, travelled the world from Brazil to Iran to produce this book which is described as 'an eye-opening chronicle of how the beautiful game and its followers can illuminate the fault lines of the world around it, from poverty to anti-Semitism to radical Islam'. Published in 2005. Size: 129mm x 197mm – 255 pages. Softback Price: £7.99 • EUR € • US $

Football and Fascism – The National Game under Mussolini An academic study of how football in Italy was institutionalised as a fascist game when the country was under the power of a government led by Benito Mussolini. Published in 2004. Size: 139mm x 216mm – 282 pages. Softback Price: £20.00 • EUR € • US $

Football: The First Hundred Years – The Untold Story An academic study providing a revisionist history of the development of football in Britain. This book argues that the influence of English public schools on the development of the game is much overstated when compared to the influential football culture which developed outside the confines of their walls. Published in 2005. Size: 155mm x 233mm – 289 pages. Softback Price: £27.50 • EUR € • US $

The Beautiful Game? Searching for the Soul of Football A revised and updated edition of this book which contains an investigation into the current problems in English football with teams in financial trouble from the Premiership down to the bottom of the Football League. Written by the author of the highly-regarded book, The Football Business. This edition published in 2005. Size: 129mm x 197mm – 411 pages. Softback Price: £8.99 • EUR € • US $

The Leaguers – The Making of Professional Football in England, 1900-1939 A fascinating study of the development of professional football in England from 1900-1939 which details the struggles over the finances of the game and the treatment of players and also examines campaigns to popularise football on both a national and international basis. Published in 2005. Size: 157mm x 234mm – 320 pages. Softback Price: £15.00 • EUR € • US $

Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation – Kicking Off a New Era An academic study which features a number of articles about womens football throughout the world. Published in 2004. Size: 156mm x 234mm – 286 pages. Softback Price: £25.00 • EUR € • US $

Living to Play – From Soccer Slaves to Soccerati – A Social History of the Professionals An interesting history of the development of the professional footballer over the past one hundred years from soccer 'slave' to 'soccerati'. Published in 2003. Size: 162mm x 239mm – 272 pages. Hardback Sale Price (Save £9.00): £8.95 • EUR € • US $

Kicking – Following Fans to the Orient A look at the behaviour of England fans during the 2002 World Cup and the good relationship which they developed with their Japanese hosts. Published in 2002. Size: 153mm x 232mm – 189 pages. Softback Price: £9.99 • EUR € • US $

Moving with the Ball – The Migration of Professional Footballers A meticulously researched social history which looks at the movement of footballers between countries throughout the history of the game. Published in 2001. Size: 156mm x 234mm – 273 pages. Softback Price: £18.99 • EUR € • US $

Football Against the Enemy One of the top-selling football books of recent times and a former 'Sports Book of the Year'. The author travelled to 22 countries around the world and discovered the effects football can have on politics and culture. This edition re-released in 2003. Size: 128mm x 197mm – 239 pages. Softback Price: £7.99 • EUR € • US $

We’ll Support You Evermore – The Impertinent Saga of Scottish Fitba’ A reprint of this book (first published in 1976) which contains a collection of reminiscences by many authors about Scottish Football, many of them humorous. Published in 2000. Size: 130mm x 198mm – 236 pages. Softback Price: £7.99 • EUR € • US $

Faith of our Fathers – Football as a Religion The long-awaited reprint of this classic, first published in 1997 which compares Football to a Religion. This edition published in 2007. Size: 130mm x 198mm – 221 pages. Softback Price: £7.99 • EUR € • US $

The Football Business – Fair Game in the 90’s? A revised and updated edition of this book in which the author examines how the changes that have occurred in the 1990's have affected the game at all levels. This edition published in 2002. Size: 130mm x 199mm – 308 pages. Softback Price: £7.99 • EUR € • US $

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