BOXING DAY BELTER

COVENTRY CITY FANATIC KEVIN HALLS RECALLS HIS FIRST GAME ON THE EVER-POPULAR DAY IN THE FOOTBALL CALENDAR... Knockout blow: Liverpool striker...

STRAIGHT TALK FROM A MAN WHO HAS SEEN IT ALL

Danny Wilson – I Get Knocked Down But I Get Up Again, by Danny Wilson and Mathew Mann, Published by Morgan...

Learning curve

Chris Dunlavy, of our sister publication The Football League Paper, give us his take on the World Cup... Pain game: England...

VARIED MIX PROVES TO BE AN ENJOYABLE READ

How To Watch Football – 52 Rules for Understanding the Beautiful Game, on and off the Pitch, by Tifo, published by...

It’s a wonderful world

Michael Renouf on his World Cup adventures and why it's more than just a simple football tournament... Wow! Bryan Robson scores...

My World Cup Famous Five

Late Tackle editor John Lyons picks out the best tournaments he's seen down the years Champions: Italy’s Dino Zoff holds the...

The magic of Argentina ’78

Michael Renouf takes a trip down memory lane We’ve done it! Argentina captain Daniel Passarella shows off the World Cupw We...

DANIEL’S ON THE BALL

The Silence of the Stands -Finding the Joy in Football’s Lost Season, by Daniel Gray, published by Bloomsbury Sport, Price: £12.99...

DALE’S DARK DAYS PAINT VIVID PICTURE

The Longest Winter -A Season with England’s Worst Ever Football Team, by Mark Hodkinson, published by Pitch Publishing, Price: £16.99 MARK...

PAT’S DONE IT PROUD

BBC Sports Report – ACelebration of the World’s Longest-Running Sports Radio Programme, by Pat Murphy, published by Bloomsbury Sport, Price: £20...

CAPTURING THE MAGIC OF MURALS

Football Murals – Acelebration of soccer’s greatest street art, by Andy Brassell, published by Bloomsbury Sport, Price: £20 EVERY now and...

AN ADMIRABLE ADVENTURE

Get Shirty – The Rise & Fall of Admiral Sportswear, by Andy Wells, published by Conker Editions Ltd, Price: £16 IT’S...

A FOOTBALL KIT CAN MEAN SO MUCH…

Kit & Caboodle – Football’s Shirt Stories, by Matt Riley, published by Pitch Publishing, Price: £25 AUTHOR Matt Riley’s passion for...

Fab in their 40s and 50s

Sam Todd takes a look at the players who are defying old father time The one and only: AC Milan’s Zlatan...

A 90s Revolution

Richard Crooks looks back at a decade which saw momentous changes for football All-smiles: Man United’s Steve Bruce, left, and Bryan...

STARTING ON ROAD TO GLORY

Alchemy – Brian Clough & Peter Taylor at Hartlepools United, by Christopher Hull, published by The History Press, Price: £20 PLENTY...

MALCOLM’S BIG HIGHS AND LOWS

Malcolm Christie – The Reality of the Dream, by Malcolm Christie with Mathew Mann, published by Morgan Lawrence Publishing Services, Price:...

COMPELLING READ GETS TO HEART OF BOBBY AND JACKIE

Two Brothers -The Life and Times of Bobby and Jackie Charlton, by Jonathan Wilson, published by Little, Brown, Price: £20 ‘TWO...

THE ‘BEST LEAGUE’ CONUNDRUM

JOE ACKLAM ATTEMPTS TO G ET TO THE BOTTOM OF WHAT MAKES ONE LEAGUE BETTER THAN ANOTHER… SKY have been peddling...

FOOTBALL’S BIG GOALS

Radical Football – Jurgen Griesbeck and the Story of Football for Good, by Steve Fleming, published by Pitch Publishing, Price £14.99...

THIS WILL CHIME WITH POMPEY FANS

Pompey Chimes, Pompey Times –A Collection of Portsmouth FC Memories and Memorabilia, by Sean ‘Northstandcritic’ Simpson, Derek Hammond and Gary Silke,...

A THRILLING DEADLINE DAY

Deadline, by Erkut Sogut, published by CA Publishing, Price: £12.99 AGENT Erkut Sogut uses his own experiences to delve into the...

JOHN TAKES SOME POETIC LICENCE

Once Upon a Rhyme in Football, by John J O’Connor, available on Amazon IN 1980, John O’Connor went to the United...

A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK

BILLY LAWRENCE LOOKS AT FAMILY TIES IN THE FOOTBALL WORLD... Smile please: Cristiano Ronaldo Jr is following in dad’s footsteps at...

THE TRUE VALUE OF REVIE

Don Revie: The Biography, by Christopher Evans, published by Bloomsbury Sport, Price: £20 WHEN football fans talk about the greatest English...

DAN THE PHOTO MAN

NOTTS COUNTY FAN IAN KIRKE SALUTES PHOTOGRAPHER DAN WESTWELL’S EFFORTS TO CAPTURE THE CLUB’S AND SUPPORTERS’ SPECIAL MOMENTS... WITH Nottingham being...

WORLD CUP FOLLY

JOE ACKLAM FEARS FOOTBALL’S SHOWPIECE WILL SUFFER IF TOURNAMENTS EVERY TWO YEARS FOLLOW THE UPCOMING EXPANSION TO 48 TEAMS… This year’s...

LEONE STARS SPARKLE

GEORGE BUTLER REPORTS ON SIERRA LEONE’S RETURN TO THE BIG TIME... THE sun has now set on the 33rd edition of...

TOMMY’S THE TOPS

KEVIN HALLS EXPLAINS WHY TOMMY HUTCHINSON IS HIS COVENTRY CITY ALL-STAR... Class act: Tommy Hutchison in Coventry colours playing for Scotland...

THE AMERICAN DREAM

HARRY GORDON ON THE RISE OF THE MLS AND US SOCCER... Trend-setter: David Beckham brought great publicity to MLS MLS, or...