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The Ball Is Round
- A Global History of Soccer
- By: David Goldblatt, David Goldblatt - foreword
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport - now poised to fully establish itself in the USA. Already celebrated internationally, The Ball Is Round illuminates soccer's role in the political and social histories of modern societies, but never loses sight of the beauty, joy, and excitement of the game itself.
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Great book read by someone who doesn't like footy
- By Christopher Curtis on 12-05-21
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The Ball Is Round
- A Global History of Soccer
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
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Football and How to Survive It
- By: Pat Nevin
- Narrated by: Pat Nevin
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In his brilliant new memoir, Pat Nevin takes us on a journey to the less glamorous side of football. From Tranmere to Kilmarnock, he plays some of the best football he's ever played. Then, in an unprecedented twist of fate, finds himself both player and Chief Executive of Scottish First Division club Motherwell.
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A great story
- By Pauly on 10-10-25
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Football and How to Survive It
- Narrated by: Pat Nevin
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-06-23
- Language: English
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Football Against The Enemy
- By: Simon Kuper
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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'GREAT' Independent 'TERRIFIC' Guardian 'WONDERFUL' Time Out 'QUALITY' Mail on Sunday 'DEFINITIVE' FourFourTwo Winner of the William Hill Sports Book Award Featured in FourFourTwo's list of 'The 10 Best Football Books Ever' Featured in Esquire's 'Best Sports Books Ever Written' Throughout the...
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Football Against The Enemy
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 30-04-26
- Language: English
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Football, the People's Shame
- How to Revolutionise a National Sport
- By: Micky Kerr
- Narrated by: Luke Collins
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Asks what has happened to English football and how we can launch a revolution amongst English fandom in order not just to take back control of the game, but invent new ways our society and economy can work in the interest of the people again. Football has always been the People's Game and even after three decades of clubs being loaded with debt, ticket prices hiked, and fans blasted with gambling ads, football persists as a source of solidarity, civic engagement and national and international pride.
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A brilliant thought provoking read
- By Mr. G. L. Turner on 03-04-25
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Football, the People's Shame
- How to Revolutionise a National Sport
- Narrated by: Luke Collins
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-12-24
- Language: English
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Football
- By: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Could this be the best book on football ever?” —Tyler Cowen "Another masterwork from one of our greatest minds.” —Esquire “[An] essential playoff-season read.” —People A hilarious but nonetheless groundbreaking contribution to the argument...
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Football
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-01-26
- Language: English
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When Friday Comes
- Football Revolution in the Middle East and the Road to Qatar
- By: James Montague
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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When James Montague first began covering football in the Middle East two decades ago, people asked him what future there could possibly be for the beautiful game in one of the most volatile regions in the world. In the years that followed, it would become one of the biggest stories in global sport, from the from revolutionary ultras of the Arab Spring and the takeover of some of the world's biggest clubs by the Emirati super rich, to Qatar's controversial journey towards hosting the 2022 World Cup finals.
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Really interesting
- By S A HAVERY on 16-01-23
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When Friday Comes
- Football Revolution in the Middle East and the Road to Qatar
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 08-12-22
- Language: English
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Red on Red
- Liverpool, Manchester United and the fiercest rivalry in world football
- By: Phil McNulty, Jim White
- Narrated by: Luke Francis
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The untold story of the most contested fixture in world football ‘A must read.’ Henry Winter 'Superb.' Daniel Taylor Liverpool and Manchester. Two gloriously independent-minded, eclectic, culturally vibrant places. Yet the inhabitants dislike each other with a passion that is visceral. It is...
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Well-written but poorly performed
- By Rob Barker on 23-08-22
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Red on Red
- Liverpool, Manchester United and the fiercest rivalry in world football
- Narrated by: Luke Francis
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 04-08-22
- Language: English
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The System
- The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
- By: Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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AN EXPLOSIVE AND REVELATORY PORTRAIT REPORTED FROM DEEP BEHIND THE SCENES OF BIG-TIME NCAA COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE PASSION, THE THRILLING ACTION—AND THE SHOCKING REALITIES THAT LIE BENEATH THIS COLOSSAL, MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESS COLLEGE FOOTBALL has never been more popular—or more...
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Hugely informative
- By Steve Wren on 19-03-15
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The System
- The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 17-09-13
- Language: English
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The People's Game: How to Save Football
- A View From a Front Seat in Football
- By: Gary Neville
- Narrated by: Mark Hadfield
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Football is the people's game. A sport accessible to everyone and enjoyed by millions around the world. But football is broken. Beneath the glamorous sheen of the Premier League, it's a game that's rusting and rotten. The growing influence and wealth of the biggest teams is harming the game, leaving fans out of pocket and other clubs clinging to survival. This isn't what football is about. Gary Neville has had a front-row seat in football for over 30 years, witnessing the sport at every level. Most of all, he's a fan. The People's Game is Gary's vision for a brighter future.
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Neville, but disappointingly, without Neville
- By James on 18-09-22
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The People's Game: How to Save Football
- A View From a Front Seat in Football
- Narrated by: Mark Hadfield
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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Going to the Match: The Passion for Football
- The Perfect Gift for Football Fans
- By: Duncan Hamilton
- Narrated by: David Mounfield
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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A massive audience in sitting rooms, parks and pubs watched England in the 2018 World Cup. Yet as Duncan Hamilton demonstrates with style, insight and wit in Going to the Match, watching on TV is no substitute for being there. Hamilton embarks on a richly entertaining, exquisitely crafted journey through football. Glory game or grass roots, England v Slovenia or Guiseley v Hartlepool, he delves beneath the action to illuminate the stories which make the sport endlessly compelling.
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Not his finest work
- By Amazon Customer on 09-01-26
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Going to the Match: The Passion for Football
- The Perfect Gift for Football Fans
- Narrated by: David Mounfield
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 28-09-18
- Language: English
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The Long Game
- U.S. Men's Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts
- By: Leander Schaerlaeckens
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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The gripping account of the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s winding saga from obscurity to the global stage as they stand on the brink of a seminal World Cup in 2026 For almost half a century, the U.S. men’s national team existed on the fringes of world soccer—out of sight, out of mind...
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The Long Game
- U.S. Men's Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 12-05-26
- Language: English
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Against Football
- One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto
- By: Steve Almond
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In Against Football Steve Almond details why, after 40 years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he still loves. Using a synthesis of memoir, reportage, and cultural critique, Almond asks a series of provocative questions: Does our addiction to football foster a tolerance for violence, greed, racism, and homophobia? What does it mean that our society has transmuted the intuitive physical joys of childhood--run, leap, throw, tackle--into a billion-dollar industry?
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Against Football
- One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 17-02-15
- Language: English
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Play On
- From Adversity to Advantage Through 140 Years of Women's Soccer
- By: Heidi Smith
- Narrated by: Heidi Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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For 140 years, women’s soccer has been a powerful global force and a vehicle for sparking change. That power has shone through 140 years of obstacles and setbacks, bans and ridicule, dismissal and devaluation. Today, investors and audiences recognize the value of women’s soccer not because it can raise money for charity or inspire young girls (although it can) but simply because it is good business. This sport and the women who play it have captured the world’s attention and will continue to advance the game—and the culture around it.
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Play On
- From Adversity to Advantage Through 140 Years of Women's Soccer
- Narrated by: Heidi Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 29-12-25
- Language: English
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The Why Is Everything
- A Story of Football, Rivalry, and Revolution
- By: Michael Silver
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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When Kyle Shanahan became the NFL's youngest offensive coordinator in 2008, he had one prevailing rule: Tell me the why. If a colleague couldn't justify his position by providing the unassailable reasoning behind it, he was told to get the hell out of Shanahan's office. Shanahan and the members of his coaching tree—including Sean McVay, Mike McDaniel, Raheem Morris, and Matt LaFleur—came up in a sport where innovation was the exception, not the rule. There had been brilliant football minds before, from Paul Brown to Bill Walsh to Bill Belichick.
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The Why Is Everything
- A Story of Football, Rivalry, and Revolution
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: English
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Sibling Rivalry
- How Mexico and the US Built the Most Contentious, Co-Dependent Feud in World Soccer
- By: Hal Phillips, Seamus Malin - foreword
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Soccer is the most global of pastimes, but no international rivalry carries more cultural and geo-political baggage than the United States vs. Mexico, especially today. With the 2026 World Cup set to be co-hosted by the two nations (along with Canada), it's time to shine a spotlight on this storied continental grudge match. In Sibling Rivalry, Hal Phillips investigates the intense, complex associations between the two countries, both on and off the field.
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Sibling Rivalry
- How Mexico and the US Built the Most Contentious, Co-Dependent Feud in World Soccer
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-03-26
- Language: English
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The Barcelona Complex
- Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
- By: Simon Kuper
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper tells the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful club in the world—and how that era is now ending FC Barcelona is not just the world’s highest grossing...
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The Barcelona Complex
- Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 17-08-21
- Language: English
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Bloody Confused!
- A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer
- By: Chuck Culpepper
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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After covering the American sports scene for 15 years, Chuck Culpepper suffered from a profound case of Common Sportswriter Malaise. He was fed up with self-righteous proclamations, steroid scandals, and the deluge of in-your-face PR that saturated the NFL, the NBA, and MLB. Then in 2006, he moved to London and discovered a new and baffling world - the renowned Premiership soccer league. Culpepper pledged his loyalty to Portsmouth, a gutsy, small-market team at the bottom of the standings. As he puts it, “It was like childhood, with beer.”
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Brilliant
- By Amazon Customer on 27-01-20
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Bloody Confused!
- A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 04-02-14
- Language: English
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How Football Explains America
- By: Sal Paolantonio
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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How Football Explains America is a fascinating, first-of-its-kind journey through the making of America's most complex, intriguing, and popular game. ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio explores just how crucial football is to understanding the American psyche. Paolantonio tackles varying American themes from Manifest Destiny to “fourth and one” as he goes deep in order to answer the age-old question: Why does America love football so much?
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How Football Explains America
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 26-03-14
- Language: English
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Across the River
- Life, Death, and Football in an American City
- By: Kent Babb
- Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson, Kent Babb
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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On the west bank of the Mississippi lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. Short on hope but big on dreams, its mostly poor and marginalized residents find joy on Friday nights when the Cougars of Edna Karr High School take the field. For years, this football program has brought glory to...
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Best book I’ve listened on here
- By Marc M on 06-11-22
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Across the River
- Life, Death, and Football in an American City
- Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson, Kent Babb
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-08-21
- Language: English
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Boot Sale
- Inside the Strange and Secret World of Football's Transfer Window
- By: Nige Tassell
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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For football fans who hungrily feed on gossip and rumour, Christmas comes twice a year - once in August and again in January. These are the months when the transfer window dominates thoughts, when the prospect of a new signing or two reinvigorates the hopes and dreams of the hopelessly devoted. Nige Tassell goes behind the scenes to observe the workings of the transfer window and to examine why it continues to hold such fascination for a nation of football lovers.
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A compilation of bland and frustrating interviews
- By BoltThrower on 03-10-20
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Boot Sale
- Inside the Strange and Secret World of Football's Transfer Window
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 14-11-19
- Language: English
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