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	Football Against the Enemy Throughout the world, football is a potent force in the lives of billions of people. Focusing national, political and cultural identities, football is the medium through which the world's hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed. Simon Kuper travelled to 22 countries from South Africa to Italy, from Russia to the USA, to examine the way football has shaped them. At the same time he tried to find out what lies behind each nation's distinctive style of play, from the carefree self-expression of the Brazilians to the anxious calculation of the Italians. During his journeys he met an extraordinary range of players, politicians and - of course - the fans themselves, all of whom revealed in their different ways the unique place football has in the life of the planet. Price: £6.39 Publication: Nov 2003
	Playfair Football Annual The ultimate pocket guide to the game provides: a complete results service for the 2006 World Cup finals; Champions League and UEFA Cup details; an easy-to-follow club and player directory for English league clubs; English and Scottish league and cup coverage, at-a-glance English league positions for 25 years; week-by-week league and international fixtures for the 2006-07 season. This book presents everything you need to know in one handy format. Price: £3.99 Publication: Aug 2006
	Sky Sports Football Yearbook The longest surviving football yearbook is back once again with an unbelievable amount of stats and essential information. Including full coverage of the 2006 World Cup finals and the qualifying competition, it is also the most comprehensive results service for the Champions League and UEFA Cup. Featuring a season-by-season players' directory with an invaluable A-Z of all entries, match facts and figures for English and Scottish league matches and English, Scottish and international fixtures for the 2006-07 season, this is the only book the true fan will need. Price: £11.99 Publication: Aug 2006
	The Football Factory (Paperback) With his first book, John King has written a cult classic for our times: telling, for once, the truth about soccer violence. Forget the armchair nostalgia of "Fever Pitch" of the transatlantic reportage of "Among the Thugs" - this is a book that gets inside. A collection of linked stories, "The Football Factory" centres on Vince Matthews, a seasoned Chelsea hooligan who represents a disaffected society operating by appalling rules. From first-hand experience, we are shown the usual mix of social degradation, unemployment, racism, excessive drink, bad sex and casual violence - the facts of life - but also how they fall into a political context of surveillance, media manipulation and division. Football violence has not been eradicated, it has simply been moved out of the grounds and beyond the cameras. Like the slaughter of Iraqi conscripts in the Gulf War, hooligans and what they do have been pushed under the carpet: out of sight, out of mind. This is what "The Football Factory" is about. Price: £5.59 Publication: May 2004
	The Perfect 10 Puskas of Hungary in the '50s; Pele of Brazil and Gianni Rivera of Italy in the '60s; Platini of France in the '70s; Diego Maradona of Argentina in the '80s; Baggio and Zidane in the '90s - the most magical, supremely talented footballers of the post-war period have all worn the Number 10 shirt. Puskas presided over the regal Real Madrid side that won five consecutive European Cups between 1955 and 1960 and like his fellow number 10s in the football hall of fame and infamy, shares the uncanny ability to transcend the role of mere 'player'. The terms 'inside forward', 'playmaker' or 'fantasista' fail to capture the instinct for genius that characterises all great Number 10s. In ten mini-biographical essays on some of the greatest players the world has ever seen Richard Williams explores the astonishing creative influence of the most celebrated players to wear the shirt and recreates some of the most memorable moments witnessed on a football field. Price: £8.99 Publication: May 2006
	World Cup Stories: A BBC History of the FIFA World Cup (Hardcover) The book accompanying the BBC TV series, WORLD CUP STORIES comprehensively tells the story of the FIFA World Cup in words and pictures. Stylishly designed, this 288-page book is crammed with pictures and memorabilia from the history of the tournament, and features a complete results breakdown for every World Cup. Chronicling the history of the competition, tournament by tournament, WORLD CUPS STORIES also examines many of the background themes that have made the competition what it is today: the importance of World Cup success to the country of Brazil, and the creation of the beautiful team of 1970; the impact of British isolation from world football in the first half of the 20th Century and the rise and fall of England's international ambitions after victory in 1966; the importance of World Cup success to the economic revival of West Germany after World War II; the battles with corruption that have dogged the Italian game since their much-disputed victory at 'Mussolini's World Cup' in 1934. This book proves that there is far more to the telling of the World Cup story than the statistics! Price: £9.96 Publication: Mar 2006

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