Links to the various books reviewed, sorted by sport:
Football / Soccer
- Frankly Speaking by Frank Stapleton (1991)
- ‘Football Against the Enemy’ by Simon Kuper (1994)
- ‘The Team That Jack Built’ by Paul Rowan (1994)
- ‘Puskas on Puskas: The Life and Times of a Footballing Legend’ edited by Rogan Taylor and Klara Jamrich (1997)
- ‘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)
- ‘Days of Heaven: Italia 90 and the Charlton Years’ by Declan Lynch (2010)
- ‘Red: My Autobiography’ by Gary Neville (2011)
- ‘Barça: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World’ by Graham Hunter (2012)
- ‘The Man Who Saved F.C. Barcelona: The Remarkable Life of Patrick O’Connell’ by Sue O’Connell (2016)
- ‘My Turn’ by Johan Cruyff (2016)
- ‘The Deal: Inside the World of a Super-Agent’ by Jon Smith & James Olley (2016)
- ‘Bayern: Creating a Global Superclub’ by Uli Hesse (2016)
- ‘No Hunger in Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream.’ by Michael Calvin (2017)
- ‘Touched By God: How We Won the Mexico 86 World Cup’ by Diego Maradona (2017)
- ‘Where have all the Irish gone? The sad demise of Ireland’s once relevant footballers’ by Kevin O’Neill (2017)
- ‘The Billionaires Club: The Unstoppable Rise of Football’s Super-rich Owners’ by James Montague (2017)
- ‘The European Game: An Adventure to Explore Football on the Continent and its Methods for Succes’ by Dan Fieldsend (2017)
- ‘Brave New World: Inside Pochettino’s Spurs’ by Guillem Balague (2018)
- ‘Soccernomics – 2018 World Cup edition’ by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski (2018)
- ‘Mental – Bad Behaviour, Ugly Truths and the Beautiful Game’ by Jermaine Pennant with John Cross (2018)
Boxing
- ‘The Big Fight: Muhammad Ali v Al “Blue” Lewis’ by Dave Hannigan (2002)
- ‘Bouts of Mania: Ali, Frazier, Foreman and an America on the Ropes’ by Richard Hoffer (2014)
- ‘The Murder of Sonny Liston: A Story of Fame, Heroin, Boxing and Las Vegas’ by Shaun Assael (2016)
- Muhammad Ali – the greatest books about The Greatest
American Football
- ‘The Education of a Coach’ by David Halberstam (2005)
- ‘The Blind Side: The Evolution of the Game’ by Michael Lewis (2016)
- ‘Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL’ by Jeff Pearlman (2018)
Basketball
- ‘A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers’ by John Feinstein (1986)
- ‘The Blueprint: LeBron James, Cleveland’s Deliverance, and the Making of the Modern NBA’ by Jason Lloyd (2017)
- ‘Golden Days: West’s Lakers, Steph’s Warriors, and the California Dreamers Who Reinvented Basketball’ by Jack McCallum (2017)
- ‘The Soul of Basketball: The Epic Showdown Between LeBron, Kobe, Doc, and Dirk That Saved the NBA’ by Ian Thomsen (2018)
- A combined review of some of my favourite basketball books
Golf
- ‘Tales from Q School: Inside Golf’s Fifth Major’ by John Feinstein (2007)
- ‘Moment of Glory: The Year Tiger Lost This Swing and Underdogs Ruled the Majors’ by John Feinstein (2010)
- ‘Tiger Woods’ by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian (2018)
Running / Athletics
- ‘Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women’ by Roseanne Montillo (2017)
- ‘Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon’ by Ed Caesar (2015)
Tennis
Baseball
Motorsport
Wrestling / WWF
Mountaineering
Martial Arts
Miscellaneous
- ‘Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers’ by Nicholas Smith (2018)
- And here’s 12 I prepared earlier.
- Championship Manager, Kindle Unlimited and a nostalgia trip.
