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In 2002, Sports Illustrated named Friday Night Lights the fourth-greatest book ever written about sports, and its fourth place position made it the highest rated book focusing on football. [6] In 2015, the book was reissued as a 25th anniversary edition and included a new afterword by Bissinger in which he provided an update on players from ...
Michael Hardcastle MBE (6 February 1933 – 17 January 2019) was a British author of sports fiction for children.He has written more than one hundred and forty books on a range of sporting subjects but is probably best known for his books about association football.
Paper Lion is a 1966 non-fiction book by American author George Plimpton.. In 1960, Plimpton, not an athlete, arranged to pitch to a lineup of professional baseball players in an All-Star exhibition, presumably to answer the question, "How would the average man off of the street fare in an attempt to compete with the stars of professional sports?"
Brian Lester Glanville (born 24 September 1931) is an English football writer and novelist. He was described by The Times as "the doyen of football writers—arguably the finest football writer of his—or any other—generation", [1] and by American journalist Paul Zimmerman as "the greatest football writer of all time."
David Goldblatt (born 26 September 1965, London) is a British sports writer, broadcaster, sociologist, journalist and author. Among his books are The Games: A Global History of the Olympics, The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football, Futebol Nation: A Footballing History of Brazil, and The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football (described as the "seminal football ...
Tom Palmer is a British author of children's books. [2]Palmer was born in Leeds. [3] He cites football articles for getting him interested in reading as a child. [4] He was encouraged to read by his adoptive mother, who died in 1992 at the age of 54.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. In this fable about following your dreams, an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago goes on a quest to discover a hidden treasure in the pyramids.
The Secret Footballer is the pseudonym of a former Premier League footballer who contributed articles to The Guardian newspaper and has written five books, I Am The Secret Footballer, Tales From The Secret Footballer, The Secret Footballer's Guide to the Modern Game, The Secret Footballer: Access All Areas, and How to Win: Lessons from the Premier League.