Tag: Football history
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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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Tony Evans on 1980s Merseyside, when Liverpool and Everton dominated English football while the city faced economic decline.
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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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David Winner links Total Football to Dutch architecture, art and a national obsession with space; shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.
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Jonathan Wilson’s history of tactics, from the attack-heavy formations of the 19th century to the modern defensive structures that “inverted” them.
