Category: History & Culture
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Over 150 years of football and social change, traced through the matchday programme.
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Pete Davies’s account of the 1990 World Cup, with unusual access to England’s squad under Bobby Robson.
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An account of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster and the long fight for the truth, by the academic who worked with the families.
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An American writer embeds with English hooligans in the 1980s; a stark portrait of the era’s darker fan culture that contains graphic violence.
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The inside story of Wimbledon’s rise from non-league football to the 1988 FA Cup win, told by Dave Bassett and Wally Downes.
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Tony Evans on 1980s Merseyside, when Liverpool and Everton dominated English football while the city faced economic decline.
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A long-running series by Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton that uses football to teach science, history, maths and more, packed with illustrations and odd facts.
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Jonathan Wilson’s history of Argentinian football, where politics, style and national identity are impossible to separate.
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David Goldblatt’s global history of football, from its origins to the modern era, at close to a thousand pages.
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An economist and a journalist use data to answer questions fans argue about, such as why some countries underachieve and whether transfers really work.
