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The Librarian: Soccernomics

The Offside Rules 29 October @ 11:57 AM EST
Remember a few years ago how everyone --myself included-- was all OMFG when "How Soccer Explains The World Came Out"? I was all tits-over-tail about and then my man Tom Fina, The Angriest Man in Metrolandâ„¢, hit me with the heat one night that "Frank Foer is just Kuper light".
Intrigued, I had to find out who this Simon Kuper was so I read his engrossing "Soccer Against the Enemy" and found myself swiftly agreeing with Fina. Click to continue reading...

New Football Books - October

Soccerphile World Cup Blog 26 October @ 11:41 PM EST
New football book titles out this month include We Are The Damned United, another take on Brian Clough's ill-fated stay at Leeds in the 70s, written as a response to David Peace's classic The Damned Utd and an autobiography of BBC football commentator John Motson Motty: Forty Years in the Commentary Box. Click to continue reading...

The Librarian: A Massive Book

The Offside Rules 22 October @ 05:23 PM EST
One shouldn't be in the business of making blind endorsements, but I'm going to step out and echo my dude Dunny's co-sign on Steve Sirk's new Columbus Crew book, A Massive Season. I haven't read it but it's just nice to see some American soccer-based product available in Amazon.com.
This coupled with the long, long, long-awaited release of Simon Kuper's upcoming book, Soccernomics, makes for a banner month for The Largest Library of Soccer Related Literature on the Jersey Shoreâ„¢. Click to continue reading...

New Football Books September

Soccerphile World Cup Blog 25 September @ 04:56 AM EST
New football book titles out this month include an autobiography of former Saints' icon Matt Le Tissier Taking The Tiss: My Autobiography, a biography of Eric Cantona Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be King and a book on African football Feet Of The Chameleon.
Other new books published in September are Celtic's Lost Legend an autobiography from George Connelly and No Smoke, No Fire by David Jones, an account of the false accusations of child abuse brought against the former Stockport County, Southampton, Wolves and now Cardiff manager. Click to continue reading...

Video: A Rare Interview with Franklin Foer

The Offside Rules 24 September @ 12:26 PM EST
Remember a few years ago when "How Soccer Explains the World" came out and everyone thought Franklin Foer was the next Simon Kuper? For 8 minutes and 9 seconds you can relive those heady times once again courtesy of the CBC. Thanks Canada! Click to continue reading...

Englischer Fussball: Othering the English

Pitch Invasion 22 September @ 09:56 AM EST

Raphael Honigstein makes his living as a football interpreter. Best known in the English speaking world for his columns on German football in the Guardian and participation in that newspaper's well-known football podcast, he plays the reverse role in his home country, acting as English football correspondent for the Suddetsche Zeitung.

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Why England Lose

Soccerphile World Cup Blog 03 September @ 07:59 PM EST
Why England Lose & and Other Curious Phenomena Explained
Simon Kuper & Stefan Szymanski
ISBN: 0007301111
HarperSport;
Hardback, 352pp
After Football Against the Enemy announced his arrival with a bang in 1994, every Simon Kuper book carries a huge weight of expectation. Click to continue reading...

It’s transfer deadline day and our FREE COMPETITION for £30 worth of Arsenal products is here!

Arsenal-highlights » The best Arsenal blog and highlights site! 01 September @ 02:47 AM EST

Hello people!. It's the day many people have waited for; Transfer deadline day. Now I expect at least 2 signing for Arsenal today but we'll have to wait and see I'll keep you posted.

The Competition

Arsenal-highlights.co.uk has teamed up with Hamlyn Book Publishers to offer you two new Arsenal books, not even released to the public worth a combined £30!

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The Bromley Boys

Soccerphile World Cup Blog 31 August @ 11:53 PM EST
The Bromley Boys
Dave Roberts
ISBN: 1906032246
Portico;
Paperback, 272pp
Non-league football, the heart of the game, where only true fans live and breathe. I used to be one of them, but remember thinking as I stood frozen on the crumbling terraces of another middle-of-nowhere 'stadium', slurping thermonuclear hot chocolate the taste of sewer water, that it helps if you support a winning team in these circumstances. Click to continue reading...

Football Books: The Rough Guide to Soccer In Print

Pitch Invasion 27 August @ 04:39 PM EST

A few weeks ago, Tom Dunmore asked me to be Pitch Invasion's regular book reviewer even though he knew full well my blogging track record back is just this side of abysmal (I am, to the half-dozen of you who read my work, the blogger known as Antonio Gramsci). I was so flattered I actually accepted but ever since, I've been fretting over what to write my first column about, not least because I haven't actually read a football book other than the amply-reviewed Beckham Experiment in several months and my next fix from Amazon.

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Is Everyone Just Over Manhattan or What?

The Offside Rules 05 August @ 04:05 PM EST
The Beckham Experiment media blitz rolls on and if you live in Brooklyn it's rolling your way tomorrow night. Author Grant "Watch how I ball" Wahl will be in D.U.M.B.O at the Varsity Letters event alongside ESPN writer Wright Thompson and New York Times writer Bruce Weber, author of As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires, at Gelf Magazine's free event at Jan Larsen Art Studios. Click to continue reading...

Book review: Winning At All Costs by John Foot

Soccer Examiner 03 August @ 09:34 PM EST
Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures. With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models, and a turbulent history marked with corr... Click to continue reading...

Book review: Winning At All Costs by John Foot

Soccer Examiner 03 August @ 09:34 PM EST
Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures. With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models, and a turbulent history marked with corr... Click to continue reading...

Book review: Winning At All Costs by John Foot

Soccer Examiner 03 August @ 08:34 PM EST
Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures. With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models, and a turbulent history marked with corr... Click to continue reading...

Book review: Winning At All Costs by John Foot

Soccer Examiner 03 August @ 08:34 PM EST
Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures. With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models, and a turbulent history marked with corr... Click to continue reading...

Book review: Winning At All Costs by John Foot

Soccer Examiner 03 August @ 08:34 PM EST
Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures. With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models, and a turbulent history marked with corr... Click to continue reading...

Book review: Winning At All Costs by John Foot

Soccer Examiner 03 August @ 08:34 PM EST
Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures. With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models, and a turbulent history marked with corr... Click to continue reading...

Book review: Winning At All Costs by John Foot

Soccer Examiner 03 August @ 08:34 PM EST
Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures. With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models, and a turbulent history marked with corr... Click to continue reading...

Book review: Winning At All Costs by John Foot

Soccer Examiner 03 August @ 08:34 PM EST
Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures. With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models, and a turbulent history marked with corr... Click to continue reading...

Book review: Winning At All Costs by John Foot

Soccer Examiner 03 August @ 08:34 PM EST
Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures. With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models, and a turbulent history marked with corr... Click to continue reading...

Book Review: The Beckham Experiment

Booked for Dissent 22 July @ 03:52 PM EST

When David Beckham signed with the LA Galaxy in 2007, I wrote the following:

Even if Beckham's price is half the figure mentioned above, the league will recoup its investment. Beckham will put fannies in the seats and bring domestic and international exposure to MLS. This will attract even more sponsors at higher rates.

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The Beckham Experiment Review: Showbusiness and Soccer

Pitch Invasion 14 July @ 10:26 AM EST

Failure is almost always a more interesting subject for a book than success. Grant Wahl did not originally intend to spend 16 months following the dramatic disaster that was the David Beckham Experiment in America: but when Beckham's celebrated arrival as the saviour of American soccer degenerated into a farce of injuries and infighting at the Galaxy, the juicy tale of how the biggest investment in American soccer history resulted in one of the worst team meltdowns ever in MLS became the story he had to follow all the way through.

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Newsletter

languagecaster.com 02 July @ 06:34 AM EST

Last week, saw the confederations Cup reach its climax with an exciting game seeing Brazil come from two goals down to beat the USA 3-2. The USA certainly impressed the worldwide audience by beating Spain and going close against the South American powerhouse. Perhaps their world ranking of 12 is merited.

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The Beckham Experiment, by Grant Wahl

Beckham is coming 2 America 30 June @ 08:51 PM EST
In 2007, David Beckham, the golden boy of soccer, shocked the international sports world when he signed a five-year contract with an American team, the Los Angeles Galaxy. Under the direction of his manager, Simon Fuller, the mastermind behind American Idol and the Spice Girls, Beckham was ready for a monumental challenge and a risky adventure–ready, as Fuller put it, to earn his stripes Stateside. Click to continue reading...

SI's Exceprt from The Beckham Experiment

The Offside Rules 30 June @ 11:42 AM EST
I may or may not post anything else today; the ocean is down the street from me and is shcokingly warm for June so I may make a move toward open water this afternoon. But if this is the last post of the day I am fine, fine, fine with that because it's a good post. Or at least it links to something good. Click to continue reading...

Newsletter

languagecaster.com 18 June @ 07:20 AM EST

As Real Madrid continue to build their new dream team, other teams are beginning to make moves in the transfer market, World Cup qualifiers continue - good news for North Korea (a 0-0 draw against saudi Arabia sees them through to the World Cup), not so good for Argentina (they lie fourth in the South America table after losing 2-0 away to Ecuador), and of course, in South Africa, the Confederations Cup is in full swing.

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More Book News

Booked for Dissent 03 May @ 07:39 PM EST

If you don't subscribe to the Comments RSS feed, you missed the incredible news that my book is officially a best-seller! In today's Washington Post, it debuted at #5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction/General list, right below Michael J. Fox's memoirs. Thanks to Paul for causing me to completely freak out.

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Some Book Press

Booked for Dissent 29 April @ 12:28 PM EST

Last week I did an interview with the Afro American News about the book. You can read it here.

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Read On: Pretty Tough Book Club

Pretty Tough » Soccer 18 April @ 08:31 PM EST

Last month I received a note from a teacher at Apopka High School in Apopka, Florida who is a huge fan of  "Pretty Tough" by Liz Tigelaar, the first book in our young adult fiction series.Â

JoJo says, "I loved it as a teacher who sees students just like the ones in the book.

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Moscow memories

Soccerphile World Cup Blog 08 April @ 02:06 PM EST
I once entered 'The Rising Dough Bakery', a small establishment in central Cardiff, wearing an Ajax t-shirt. The old Dutchman who worked there, well into his '70s at least, took one look at my attire and said with a wistful smile, "I used to play for them, you know."
Half incredulous, I demanded he told me more, so he rolled off a string of hazy memories of football in wartime Amsterdam. Click to continue reading...

Almost Famous

Booked for Dissent 02 April @ 12:17 PM EST

The press release for my book.

Limited Edition Collector's Vault Celebrates
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama

Two-Volume Box Set Highlights First Family In Hundreds of Photographs
and More Than 90 Commemorative Souvenirs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Deb Murphy, Whitman Publishing
March 31, 2009 678.

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My First Book

Booked for Dissent 24 March @ 10:34 AM EST

As some of you know, I was holed up in my apartment this winter for a few weeks working on a book. I was referencing it on Twitter and Facebook, but kept it off the blog except for an allusion to "an exciting work opportunity" shortly after I began work on it.

Well, I'm proud to announce that it will soon be out, and is available for pre-order from Whitman Books.

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The Librarian: East End Heroes, Stateside Kings

The Offside Rules 23 March @ 04:07 PM EST
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The Librarian: Day of the Match

The Offside Rules 21 January @ 02:48 PM EST
You know those bedside books that your Gran reads at night before she goes to bed? You know the ones that you're meant to read one page a day and are often of a spiritual nature and whatnot? Day of the Match is kind of like that except instead of getting a daily prayer you get a daily piece of soccer history. Click to continue reading...

SoccerDad’s Reading List

On The Pitch 28 December @ 01:09 PM EST
I love to read, but find precious little time to do it during soccer seasons. So my stack of 'currently reading' books gets sort of high. Since I occasionally post book reviews, I figured I'd post my current list of books I'm slowly reading through in case any of you have read them already or [...] Click to continue reading...