Apart from Roy Keane and Robbie Keane (who, not being Dutch, are not brothers), the Irish squad consists mainly of unglamorous players from the English league. No one gives them a prayer. In the second minute of the match, Kluivert robs ...
. . For thinking fans of the game, this is exquisitely pleasurable reading . . .
In this playful, witty and highly original look at English football, David Winner, author of the acclaimed Brilliant Orange, journeys to the heart of Englishness and sheds new light on the true nature of a rapidly changing game that was ...
A peculiar aspect of Dutch culture is brought to life through a form of soccer called Total Football, detailing a colorful cast of characters, including anarchists, church painters, skinheads, and Holland's beloved soccer players.
This book lays bare the elegant, fractured soul of the Dutch Masters and the culture that spawned them by exploring and analysing its key ideas, institutions, personalities and history in the context of wider Dutch society.
Full of outstanding stories and forthright opinions, #2Sides sees Rio reflect on his unique rise to the top of the game: - Cutting his teeth in the West Ham youth teams and becoming captain of Leeds United at the age of 22 - His record ...
This book lays bare the elegant, fractured soul of the Dutch Masters and the culture that spawned them by exploring and analysing its key ideas, institutions, personalities and history in the context of wider Dutch society.
Traces the life of the diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews during World War II and mysteriously disappeared after the Russians occupied Budapest.
A singular collection of writing by 31 authors exploring the experience of Covid-19 in its initial months.
There are the bloodthirsty antics of an eighteenth-century executioner who worked for the pope, stories of immolation, architecture and artichokes, and a telephone interview with a nun who makes Eucharistic wafers.