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The popular footballer Mark Bright played for various clubs in FA, League and play-off finals, and is now a TV pundit. This memoir, introduced by Gary Lineker, reflects on his career but also tells the story of his turbulent childhood, during which he found a stable home with a foster family after his birth parents split up, but experienced racism at school and elsewhere.

Picking out key fixtures, including the 1909 FA Cup Final, the last match of the Busby Babes before the Munich air crash in 1958, and the comeback against Juventus that kept them on course for the treble in 1999, this sporting history illuminates the evolution of one of the foremost clubs of the 20th century.

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Football is a billion-pound industry, and this tongue-in-cheek illustrated guide takes an insiders’ view of the big money deals, youth scouts, agents’ tricks, scandals and rows that lie behind the surface of every famous player and team.

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In this quirky collection of wide-ranging chats with famous football figures all the interviewers are celebrities: the pairs include Johnny Marr with Pep Guardiola, Clare Balding with Lucy Bronze, and John Bishop with Jürgen Klopp. With introductions by Raheem Sterling and Gary Lineker, the book was published to raise funds for the UN Refugee Agency.

Although less lauded than some of the glamorous players around him, fellow pros and coaches acknowledged that Michael Carrick held a key role in Manchester United’s winning team in the last decade of Alex Ferguson’s reign. This autobiography reveals his thoughts about his time at West Ham, Spurs, United and England, and the players and managers he worked with including Harry Redknapp, Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham.

In 1977 Kenny Dalglish moved from Celtic to take over Kevin Keegan’s number 7 shirt at Liverpool, following the high-profile transfer of ‘Mighty Mouse’ to Hamburg. This biography explores contrasts and parallels between two brilliant careers as players and managers: Keegan was hailed the ‘Geordie messiah’ who revived Newcastle’s fortunes, while Dalglish won titles at Liverpool and, after the trauma of Hillsborough, at Blackburn.

No less eye-catching than the famous yellow jerseys of Brazil are the team colours of less successful international teams such as Liberia, Malaysia or Aruba. This reference work illustrates the home and away colours of 223 footballing nations affiliated to FIFA, correct for the World Cup of 2018. Each entry also includes key facts about the team, such as top goalscorer and record in international tournaments.

Charting changing graphic styles and printing fashions from the 1960s to the 1990s, this celebration of football programmes is organized alphabetically and includes examples from most English Football League clubs and the leading Scottish teams. Demonstrating the idiosyncratic styles of each club as well as common themes such as aerial shots of the stadium on the cover, the collection also explores themes such as ‘Manager’s Notes’ and ‘At Home With…’.

Although they grew up and learned their football in Scotland, Joe and Gerry Baker represented the countries of their birth, earning caps for England and the United States respectively. This double biography follows their footballing careers at clubs including Hibernian, Arsenal and Torino in the 1950s and 1960s.

The success of the Hibernian football club in Edinburgh prompted the formation of a similar team from among the Irish Catholic community in Glasgow in the 1880s. This history tells the story of the resulting club, Celtic, considering the religious and political issues that underlie its identity and describing its growth and fluctuating fortunes, both on and off the pitch.

A journalist, footballer (centre forward and England captain) and one of the founding fathers of the modern game, Charles William Alcock wrote Football: The Association Game in 1906.

The four England captains discussed in this history of post-war English football are Billy Wright, Bobby Moore, Gary Lineker and David Beckham. Each a world famous and long-serving skipper, they represent their times: from the hard-working Wright and the glamorous Moore, embodiment of the social mobility of the 1960s, to Lineker, the savvy exploiter of the new media age, and Beckham, the global celebrity.

The four England captains discussed in this history of post-war English football are Billy Wright, Bobby Moore, Gary Lineker and David Beckham. Each a world famous and long-serving skipper, they represent their times: from the hard-working Wright and the glamorous Moore, embodiment of the social mobility of the 1960s, to Lineker, the savvy exploiter of the new media age, and Beckham, the global celebrity. Slightly off-mint.

Peter Chapman was 18 years old in 1966, the year of Harold Wilson, the seamen’s strike, London ‘swinging’ to a soundtrack of Beatles and Rolling Stones, and England’s victory in the World Cup. Chapman, whose hopes of being a professional footballer had been dashed, but who would become an outstanding football journalist, gives a vivid picture of the lost world of Britain in the Sixties from the perspective of his world in Islington, north London.

From the flowering of Ferguson's Manchester United in the early 1990s to the last-gasp championship won by their now astronomically well-funded rivals, Manchester City, in 2012, this book charts the rise of the Premier League through ten milestone matches. Slightly off-mint.

As a revolutionary players' union rep, innovative manager and pioneering presenter and pundit, Jimmy Hill had a profound effect on football. This new edition of his autobiography, first published in 1998, contains an additional chapter reflecting on his remarkable career.

In this moving memoir, Tina Moore tells the story of her life with the ‘blond boy’ who asked her to dance at the Ilford Palais, and who went on to become one of the greatest footballers of all time.

Hugh Hornby's illustrated celebration of local 'festival football', usually played on Shrove Tuesday, examines the history and present day pursuit of this little-known British institution.

Celtic changed from vertical green stripes to the famous hoops in the early years of the 20th century, and the distinctive jersey has since been worn by many of the greatest names in Scottish football. This book collects the official team photos from the first season of 1888 to the 2006-7 season as well as player portraits of legends such as Jock Stein and Bobby Murdoch. Changing Faces series.

When Celtic football club was established in 1888 to raise money for Scotland’s Catholic underclass a religious divide between them and the predominantly Protestant Rangers developed, locking the clubs into an intense rivalry. Focusing on their New Year Derby on 2 January 2010, a fixture that had been banned for ten years due to the violence previous matches had generated, Richard Wilson explores the historic enmity between the teams and its continuing cultural significance.