Football/Soccer books I’ve reviewed ranked (roughly) from best to not-as-good.
- ‘Football Against the Enemy’ by Simon Kuper (1994)
- ‘Garrincha: the triumph and tragedy of Brazilian’s forgotten footballing hero’ by Ruy Castro & translated by Andrew Downie (2004)
- ‘Full Time: The Secret Life Of Tony Cascarino’ by Paul Kimmage (2000)
- ‘The Miracle of Castel di Sangro’ by Joe McGinniss (2000)
- ‘Puskas on Puskas: The Life and Times of a Footballing Legend’ edited by Rogan Taylor and Klara Jamrich (1997)
- ‘The Barcelona Legacy: Guardiola, Mourinho and the Fight For Football’s Soul’ by Jonathan Wilson (2018)
- ‘Days of Heaven: Italia 90 and the Charlton Years’ by Declan Lynch (2010)
- ‘Fergie Rises: How Britain’s Greatest Football Manager was Made at Aberdeen’ by Michael Grant (2014)
- ‘Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never To Play Football’ by Rob Smyth (2018)
- ‘The Billionaires Club: The Unstoppable Rise of Football’s Super-rich Owners’ by James Montague (2017)
- ‘The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports’ by Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg (2019)
- One career, Two books – Roy Keane (2002 and 2014).
- ‘Barça: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World’ by Graham Hunter (2012)
- One Career, Two Books – Tony Adams. Addicted (1999) and Sober (2017) written with Ian Ridley
- ‘Klopp: Bring the Noise’ by Raphael Honigstein (2017)
- ‘Lionel Messi and the Art of Living’ by Andy West (2018)
- ‘Soccernomics – 2018 World Cup edition’ by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski (2018)
- ‘One Football, No Nets’ by Justin Walley (2018)
- ‘El Macca: Four Years with Real Madrid’ by Steve McManaman and Sarah Edworthy (2004)
- ‘How to be a Footballer’ by Peter Crouch (2018)
- ‘Building the Yellow Wall: The Incredible Rise and Cult Appeal of Borussia Dortmund’ by Uli Hesse (2018)
- ‘Cristiano and Leo: The Race to Become the Greatest Football Player of All Time’ by Jimmy Burns (2018)
- ‘The European Game: An Adventure to Explore Football on the Continent and its Methods for Succes’ by Dan Fieldsend (2017)
- ‘Gazza in Italy’ by Daniel Story (2018)
- ‘The Away Game: The Epic Search for Football’s Next Superstars’ by Sebastian Abbot (2018)
- ‘250 Days: Cantona’s Kung Fu and the Making of Manchester United’ by Daniel Storey (2019)
- ‘Andy’s Game: The Inside Story of the World Cup’ by Andy Townsend with Paul Kimmage (1994)
- The Beckham Experiment: How the World’s Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America (2009) by Grant Wahl
- ‘Hijacking LaLiga: How Atlético Madrid Broke Barcelona and Real Madrid’s Duopoloy on Spanish Football’ by Euan McTear (2018)
- ‘Bottled: English Football’s Boozy Story” by Benjamin Roberts (2019)
- ‘Red: My Autobiography’ by Gary Neville (2011)
- ‘Keeper Of Dreams: One Man’s Controversial Story of Life in the English Premiership’ by Ronald Reng & translated by Shaun Whiteside (2002)
- ‘Bayern: Creating a Global Superclub’ by Uli Hesse (2016)
- ‘My Turn’ by Johan Cruyff (2016)
- ‘Tackled: The Class of ’92 Star Who Never Got to Graduate’ by Ben Thornley & Dan Poole (2018)
- ‘The Gaffers: Mick Mc Carthy, Roy Keane And The Team They Built’ by Paul Howard (2002)
- ‘The Team That Jack Built’ by Paul Rowan (1994)
- ‘No Hunger in Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream.’ by Michael Calvin (2017)
- ‘Brave New World: Inside Pochettino’s Spurs’ by Guillem Balague (2018)
- ‘Done Deal: An Insider’s Guide to Football Contracts, Multi-Million Pound Transfers and Premier League Big Business’ by Daniel Geey (2019)
- ‘The Binman Chronicles’ by Neville Southall (2012)
- ‘Mental – Bad Behaviour, Ugly Truths and the Beautiful Game’ by Jermaine Pennant with John Cross (2018)
- ‘Where have all the Irish gone? The sad demise of Ireland’s once relevant footballers’ by Kevin O’Neill (2017)
- Frankly Speaking by Frank Stapleton (1991)
- ‘The Man Who Saved F.C. Barcelona: The Remarkable Life of Patrick O’Connell’ by Sue O’Connell (2016)
- ‘Touched By God: How We Won the Mexico 86 World Cup’ by Diego Maradona (2017)
- ‘The Deal: Inside the World of a Super-Agent’ by Jon Smith & James Olley (2016)