Tag: 1980s
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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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Jimmy Burns’s biography of Diego Maradona, from the slums of Buenos Aires through Barcelona and Naples to the 1986 World Cup.
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Jonathan Wilson’s biography of Brian Clough: his rise, his partnership with Peter Taylor and back-to-back European Cups at Nottingham Forest.
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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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Nick Hornby’s memoir of a life organised around Arsenal fixtures, the book that showed football writing could be funny, honest and literary.
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Everton’s most successful modern decade, from Kendall’s rebuild to two league titles and European glory, told through the players’ own stories.
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A match-by-match account of Everton’s title-winning 1984–85 season, told through Howard Kendall’s own programme notes and post-match reactions.
