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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 Against The Enemy
- By: Simon Kuper
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- 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: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 30-04-26
- 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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How To Watch Football
- By: Ruud Gullit
- Narrated by: Adam James
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of How to Watch Football by Ruud Gullit, read by Adam James. How can one striker be better than three? Why do the best defenders never need to make a tackle? What's the secret of Tiki-taka? Welcome to Ruud Gullit's masterclass on...
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Insights from a master
- By Ed Goodman on 21-02-17
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How To Watch Football
- Narrated by: Adam James
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: English
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World Cup Fever
- A Soccer Journey in Nine Tournaments
- By: Simon Kuper
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of how soccer has transformed the world—as seen through nine World Cups—by one of our most talented writers on the sport. The World Cup is the biggest sporting spectacle on Earth—a chance every four years for the greatest players to win international glory, and a month-long media...
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World Cup Fever
- A Soccer Journey in Nine Tournaments
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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The Age of Football
- The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century
- By: David Goldblatt
- Narrated by: David Goldblatt
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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'Magnificent . . . Goldblatt is the doyen of sports historians and brings to this account his forensic and telling eye for detail' - Mail on Sunday A Sunday Times Best Sports Book of the Year The epic exploration of society, politics, and economics in the twenty-first century through the prism...
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Very disappointing - out of date and narrowly focused viewpoints
- By Anonymous on 21-11-19
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The Age of Football
- The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century
- Narrated by: David Goldblatt
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 17-10-19
- Language: English
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Relegated
- One American's Pints-and-Pies Journey from the Top to the Bottom of English Football
- By: Todd Smith
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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For fans of Ted Lasso and Welcome to Wrexham, this rollicking travel memoir by a middle-aged Midwesterner is a hilarious and heartfelt journey through the United Kingdom, its football clubs, and the rich traditions of English football culture. Relegation, the devastating consequence 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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The Age of Football
- The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century
- By: David Goldblatt
- Narrated by: David Goldblatt
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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'Magnificent . . . Goldblatt is the doyen of sports historians and brings to this account his forensic and telling eye for detail' - Mail on Sunday A Sunday Times Best Sports Book of the Year The epic exploration of society, politics, and economics in the twenty-first century through the prism...
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The Age of Football
- The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century
- Narrated by: David Goldblatt
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-01-25
- 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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The People's Game
- The bestselling book about the future of football from England and Manchester United legend Gary Neville - perfect World Cup reading
- By: Gary Neville
- Narrated by: Mark Hadfield
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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The Sports Book Award-winning true story of the beautiful game. 'The closest thing to a spokesman there is for English football.' Sunday Times It's time to fix football . . . Football is the people's game. A sport accessible to everyone and enjoyed by millions around the world. But football is...
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Neville, but disappointingly, without Neville
- By James on 18-09-22
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The People's Game
- The bestselling book about the future of football from England and Manchester United legend Gary Neville - perfect World Cup reading
- 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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This is Our Game
- Inside the World's Greatest Football Cities
- By: Joel Rookwood, Daniel Fieldsend
- Narrated by: Joel Rookwood, Theo Solomon, Sebastian Balzarolo, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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You know when you’re in a Football City. The murals, the billboards, the graffiti, the colours on the bars and pubs. No two football cities are the same. That cross on the club badge, commemorating a 1st century fisherman martyr (Ajax). The ‘cemetery’ of graves dedicated to the club’s...
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This is Our Game
- Inside the World's Greatest Football Cities
- Narrated by: Joel Rookwood, Theo Solomon, Sebastian Balzarolo, Federico Louhau, Maud Arrault
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 28-05-26
- 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
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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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How To Watch Soccer Like a Genius
- What Architects, Stuntwomen, Paleoanthropologists, and Computer Scientists Reveal About the World's Game
- By: Nick Greene
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A brilliant and entertaining deconstruction of the most popular sport in the world, just in time for the 2026 World Cup in North America, from the bestselling author of How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius In How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius, Nick Greene calls on a turf manager, an expert on...
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How To Watch Soccer Like a Genius
- What Architects, Stuntwomen, Paleoanthropologists, and Computer Scientists Reveal About the World's Game
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 12-05-26
- Language: English
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Flying the Flag
- Definitive Heroines Of Women's Football
- By: Carrie Dunn
- Narrated by: Rebecca Ward
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Before Mary Earps, Jess Fishlock and Lucy Bronze, a generation of trailblazing women's footballers defied the odds. In 1921, the FA banned women from playing football in England, but these rebels refused to quit. Leaving behind jobs, families and their homeland, they travelled across Europe in search of professional opportunities. This groundbreaking book uncovers their untold stories: the original Lioness who started a new life in the Netherlands as a teenager, the first woman of colour to play for England, the girl who turned down international recognition to play in Italy.
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Flying the Flag
- Definitive Heroines Of Women's Football
- Narrated by: Rebecca Ward
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 14-04-26
- 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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The Impossible Job
- The Truly Unbelievable World of Football Referees
- By: William Ralston
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Booed by crowds. Sworn at by players. Spat on from the stands. Threatened. Accused. Targeted. Welcome to the world of football refereeing. We’ve all seen referees in football games, but very few of us really know what they go through both on the pitch and once the...
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The Impossible Job
- The Truly Unbelievable World of Football Referees
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 27-08-26
- Language: English
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