Books - Most popular for September 2009
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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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
