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A lot of football fans are feeling low due to the wait for the new season but they neednt fear as reading has always been one of the best forms of entertainment especially if the book is about their favourite sport football. Now there have been thousands of books about the beautiful game but choosing the best from them all promises to be quite a challenging task. Once again you neednt worry as this article will help you do just that. So without further delay lets have a look at the best books on football.
#1 The Damned United
Author: David Peace
Brian Clough was a brilliant manager, one of the best ever, and won a remarkable two European Cups along with hordes of other trophies with Nottingham Forest but just couldn’t pull it together at Leeds United, which at that time (the 70’s) was the biggest club in England. The Damned United documents his doomed 42 days at the club. The book was met with critical acclaim with some critics stating that it was the best football book ever published while others including the Clough family panned it and stated that most of the book was fictionalized. Nevertheless it’s a really good book and is bound to get you hooked once you pick it up.
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#2 The ball is round: A global history of Football
Author: David Goldblatt
This book is huge, over 900 pages, but is worth every minute of your time. The Ball Is Round takes you through the entire history of the sport: its origins, its transformation over the years and how the word ‘soccer’, which the Americans use so often, came about. For those looking to up their knowledge on the sport this is the right book for them.
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#3 The Fix: organized crime and Soccer
Author: Declan Hill
Nobody knows more about the subject of match fixing better than Canadian journalist Declan Hill, whose book The Fix: Organized Crime and Soccer is a real masterpiece. The book exposes the corruption in the football world including the Champions League. When the book released back in 2006 it sold like hot cakes and has now been translated into 15 languages. Read it and be intrigued.
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#4 Inverting the pyramid
Author: Jonathan Wilson
One of the most interesting things about a football game is the tactics deployed by the teams manager and Inverting The Pyramid explains it beautifully. The book really focuses a lot on detail and traces managerial tactics right back to its root to the modern formations. I would definitely recommend it to all football fans because what’s the use of watching the game when you don’t know the game plan?
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#5 Futebol: The Brazilian way of life
Author: Alex Bellos
Football was invented by the English but no-one knows how to play it better than the Brazilians. Futebol: The Brazilian Way Of Life acknowledges just that and explores the impact of the sport on the Samba continent. Read the book to know just how much of an impact football has on the Brazilians from young kids to the elderly.
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