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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “chris bolsmann”
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  • English Gentlemen and World Soccer

    Corinthians, Amateurism and the Global Game

    by Chris Bolsmann, Dilwyn Porter ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    The significance of the Corinthians Football Club, founded in 1882, has been widely acknowledged by historians of football and by sports historians generally. As a ’super club’ comprising the best amateur talent available they were an important formative influence on football in Britain from the 1880s to the 1930s. As a touring club - they first travelled to South Africa in 1897 and made regular ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • South Africa and the Global Game

    Football, Apartheid and Beyond

    Edited by Peter Alegi, Chris Bolsmann ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    Firmly situating South African teams, players, and associations in the international framework in which they have to compete, South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid, and Beyond presents an interdisciplinary analysis of how and why South Africa underwent a remarkable transformation from a pariah in world sport to the first African host of a World Cup in 2010. Written by an eminent ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Africa's World Cup

    Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space

    Edited by Peter Alegi, Chris Bolsmann ...
    Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Spacefocuses on a remarkable month in the modern history of Africa and in the global history of football. Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann are well-known experts on South African football, and they have assembled an impressive team of local and international journalists, academics, and football experts to reflect on the ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

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  • A Game for Hooligans

    The History of Rugby Union

    by Huw Richards ...
    Rugby union has undergone immense change in the past two decades - introducing a World Cup, accepting professionalism and creating a global market in players - yet no authoritative English-language general history of the game has been published in that time. Until now.A Game for Hooligans brings the game's colourful story up to date to include the 2007 World Cup. It covers all of the great matches ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • When Saturday Comes

    The Half Decent Football Book

    by When Saturday Comes ...
    The best chants, the funniest nicknames, the greatest headlines and enough little-known facts to keep the average football supporter entertained - and entertaining - for several seasons. This is the story of the greatest game on earth, from 'abandoned matches' to 'Yeovil Town', via celebrity fans, mascots, punditry and superstitions, written from the fan's point of view and with a separate entry ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Celtic

    A Biography in Nine Lives

    by Kevin McCarra ...
    Celtic: A Biography in Nine Lives, takes its structure from nine key individuals associated with the club since its inception, and touches on aspects of that person's life to explore key themes in the club's history. From John Glass, their tenacious first President and Willie Maley, who played in Celtic's first match against Rangers in 1888, to the legendary Jock Stein, who led the club to ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • The Game of Our Lives

    The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain

    by David Goldblatt ...
    The Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain. Soccer in the United Kingdom has evolved from a jaded, working-class tradition to a sport at the heart of popular culture, from an economic mess to a booming entertainment industry that has conquered the world. The changes in the game, David Goldblatt shows, uncannily mirror the evolution of British society.In the ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain

    A Social and Cultural History

    by Tony Collins ...
    Called ‘the greatest game of all’ by its supporters but often overlooked by the cultural mainstream, no sport is more identified with England’s northern working class than rugby league.This book traces the story of the sport from the Northern Union of the 1900s to the formation of the Super League in the 1990s, through war, depression, boom and deindustrialisation, into a new economic and social ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Now You Know Soccer

    by Doug Lennox ...
    Series Book 14 - Now You Know
    Known around the world as football, soccer is the world’s most watched and played sport. Now Doug Lennox, the striker of Q&A, scores with a pitch full of tidbits that delivers the goods on Pelé, Maradona, Beckham, Zidane, and other superstars, as well as the history, traditions, and rules of the game. Doug has compiled a World Cup of trivia about a truly universal phenomenon that has legions of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Top 10 of Football

    250 lists on the beautiful game

    by Russell Ash, Ian Morrison ...
    Series series Top 10
    Football fans love lists: league tables; starting 11s; performance statistics. From the bestselling author of Hamlyn's Top 10 of Everything series comes a brand new collection of 250 exclusive lists that cover everything from the obvious to the obscure and uncover fascinating facts about the planet's favourite sport, including: Top 10 bestselling World Cup songs 10 World Cup unsung heroes Top 10 ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Four Lions

    The Lives and Times of Four Captains of England

    by Colin Shindler ...
    FOUR LIONS explores the changing landscape of postwar England through the careers of four iconic England football captains: Billy Wright, Bobby Moore, Gary Lineker and David Beckham. Between Wright, who fought in World War II, and Beckham, whose battles against Germany were played out on the football field, huge shifts in English society were mirrored by seismic changes to the national game as ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?

    The Story of English Football's Forgotten Tribe

    by Anthony Clavane ...
    Jews don't do football. Or, at least, they don't play it. This, at any rate, is the myth. Apart from the relatively recent appearance of high-profile foreign owners like Roman Abramovich, Randy Lerner and the Glazers, the Jewish impact on the game has appeared to be on the light side.Anthony Clavane uncovers a secret history of Jewish involvement in English football. Featuring interviews with fans ... Read more

    $2.99 USD