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Football Biomechanics (Paperback): Hiroyuki Nunome, Ewald Hennig, Neal Smith Football Biomechanics (Paperback)
Hiroyuki Nunome, Ewald Hennig, Neal Smith
R1,271 Discovery Miles 12 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Football Biomechanics explores the latest knowledge of this core discipline in sport science across all codes of the sport. Encompassing a variety of styles, including original scientific studies, syntheses of the latest research, and position statements, the text offers readers the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference of the underlying mechanics of high-level football performance. The book is divided into five parts, covering fundamental football actions, the biomechanics of direct free kicks, footwear, biomechanical considerations in skill acquisition and training, and artificial turf. It bridges the gap between theory and practice in a variety of key areas such as: ball kicking mechanics (in soccer and other football codes) ball impact dynamics aerodynamics of ball flight special techniques (such as the 'knuckle ball shot') by world-famous players the efficacy and development of footwear biomechanical and motor performance differences between female and male soccer players artificial turf from an injury and a performance perspective. Made up of contributions from leading experts from around the world, Football Biomechanics is a vital resource for researchers and practitioners working in all football codes, and useful applied reading for any sport science student with an interest in football.

World Football Club Crests - The Design, Meaning and Symbolism of World Football's Most Famous Club Badges (Hardcover):... World Football Club Crests - The Design, Meaning and Symbolism of World Football's Most Famous Club Badges (Hardcover)
Leonard Jagerskioeld Nilsson 1
R642 R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Save R110 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

An illustrated exploration of the design, meaning and symbolism of world football club crests.

Why is there a devil shown on the crest of Manchester United? Which club's crest motto is 'To Dare Is To Do'? And whose emblem depicts a bear and a strawberry tree?

From the seahorses of Newcastle United to the royal crown of Real Madrid, via the riveting hammers of West Ham United, Valencia's famous bat design and German club St Pauli's unofficial skull-and-crossbones emblem, there is a story behind every crest, a tale of identity.

Covering more than 200 clubs from 20 different leagues, World Football Club Crests explores the design, meaning and symbolism of the game's most famous club crests to reveal why the badges look as they do.

This carefully curated collection charts the continuing evolution of the designs and describes the changing styles, varied influences and remarkable controversies that have shaped football's most iconic crests. These important symbols of football heraldry will never be viewed in the same way again.

Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje - The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football (Hardcover): Gary Thacker Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje - The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football (Hardcover)
Gary Thacker
R534 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Save R94 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje: The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football is the story of a dazzling football dream. Built on the club successes of Ajax and Feyenoord, it's a utopian ideal that blazed with a bright but ephemeral Oranje flame, scorching the football pitches of the world in the 1970s. Although Dutch clubs dominated the European Cup from 1969 to 1973, until 1974 the Oranje had failed to qualify for a World Cup for 36 years. Two finals then followed in successive tournaments, as 'totaalvoetbal' burst from its chrysalis, proudly revealing to the world its wings adorned with vivid shades of Oranje. The winners were the brides. It was their day, but the Dutch sides were more beautiful, yet so fragile, and football loved them for it. This isn't merely a tale of bridesmaids who came so close yet failed gloriously. It is the celebration of a footballing counter-culture, a revolution, a flame that burned so brightly, but so briefly. It's the story of those Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje.

All Together Now - The Extraordinary Story of AFC Wimbledon (Hardcover): Erik Samuelson All Together Now - The Extraordinary Story of AFC Wimbledon (Hardcover)
Erik Samuelson
R633 R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Save R111 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

All Together Now is one of the great sports stories. It's about a group of football fans who were determined to right a wrong. The authorities said they shouldn't try. People in football said it couldn't be done. Robbed of their beloved club, Wimbledon FC, they started again. They had absolutely nothing - no experience of running a club, no players, no manager, nowhere to play. But within nine years they re-formed their team as AFC Wimbledon, rebuilt its community work, won six promotions and fought their way back into the top tiers of the game. En route, they broke records, changed the rules of football and were the subject of Prime Minister's Questions. And now they're back in their spiritual home, Wimbledon, in a brand new stadium. For most of this time Erik Samuelson was finance director and then CEO of the club. He tells the extraordinary inside story of how the most undervalued people in football - the fans - defied the odds to take their club back to the Football League and return home.

Football Fans, Activism and Social Change (Paperback): Dino Numerato Football Fans, Activism and Social Change (Paperback)
Dino Numerato
R1,259 Discovery Miles 12 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The study of football fandom is a fast-growing area of research in the sociology of sport. The first work of its kind, this book explores football fan activism and its impact on contemporary football culture in England, Italy and the Czech Republic. Presenting a comparative study of fan activism in national and transnational contexts, it explores the characteristics of each country's football fan culture as well as the varying and at times volatile dynamics between fans, authorities and the mass media. Its chapters address key themes and issues including: fans' reactions to policing and security measures in football stadiums; the socio-cultural significance of symbols and rituals for fans at football games; and fans' critical engagement with football club ownership and management. Offering original insights into the power of fan activism to influence social change, this book has wider implications for understanding social movements in other cultural and political spheres beyond Europe. Football Fans, Activism and Social Change is fascinating reading for all students, scholars and football fans with an interest in sport studies, fan culture, politics and society.

Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer (Paperback): Alberto Testa, Anna Sergi Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer (Paperback)
Alberto Testa, Anna Sergi
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Whilst corruption and organized crime have been widely researched, they have not yet been specifically linked to sport. Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer offers an original insight into this new research area. Adopting a psycho-social approach based mainly on Pierre Bourdieu's praxeology, the book demonstrates that corruption and the mafia presence in Italian soccer reflect the Italian socio-political and economic system itself. Supported by interviews with security agency officials, anticorruption organisations and antimafia organisations, and analysing empirical data obtained from a case study of 'Operation Dirty Soccer', this important study explains why mafia groups are involved in soccer, what the links are to political corruption and what might be done to control the problem. It also examines the mechanisms that make it possible for mafia groups and affiliates to enter the football industry and discusses how mafia groups exploit and corrupt Italian football. This is important reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and academics working in the areas of sociology, criminology, policing, anthropology, the sociology of sport, sport deviance, sport management and organised crime. It is also a valuable resource for practitioners in the football industry.

Eric and Dave - A Lifetime of Football and Friendship (Hardcover): Spencer Vignes Eric and Dave - A Lifetime of Football and Friendship (Hardcover)
Spencer Vignes
R579 R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Save R107 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Meet Eric Gill and Dave Hollins, once feted as two of the finest goalkeepers in Britain. Between them they have more stories to tell spanning the past ten decades than there are holes in a football net. Their unique friendship started as a rivalry, two men wrestling over the same goalkeeper jersey at Brighton & Hove Albion in the 1950s. Seventy years later they remain the best of pals, having lived long, eventful lives bookended by the horrors of World War Two and the Covid-19 pandemic. Journey back to when footballers earned GBP20 a week and goalkeepers wore string gloves, as Eric and Dave recall how they dodged Hitler's bombs before pitting their wits against some of sport's most iconic names: a list that includes Stanley Matthews, Pele and George Best not to mention their shared nemesis, Brian Clough. Touching, inspiring and searingly honest, Eric and Dave is a salutary reminder that youth is not a time of life but a state of mind.

Brazil 1970 - How the Greatest Team of All Time Won the World Cup (Hardcover): Samindra Kunti Brazil 1970 - How the Greatest Team of All Time Won the World Cup (Hardcover)
Samindra Kunti
R521 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R96 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Brazil 1970 is the fascinating and dramatic inside story of the greatest football team of all time. Predicted to be drab and dull, the 1970 World Cup became the greatest show on Earth, with the mesmerising Brazilians at the heart of a dramatic and delirious three weeks. After their demise at the 1966 World Cup, the South Americans were no longer the masters of the game. The defenestration rattled Brazil, and left them in purgatory before they swept through the qualifiers with coach Joao Saldanha. Even so, the team left their home country discredited against the backdrop of a military dictatorship and the proliferation of science in the game. At the World Cup finals, Mario Zagallo and his cast of balletic players - including lodestar Pele, the cerebral Gerson and the ingenious Tostao - ensured Brazil would forever be synonymous with the global game and a byword for style and craft. Their triumph was also the end of Brazil's golden era. The technocrats had invaded the terrain and Brazil would never again reach those heights.

Scoring Off the Field - Football Culture in Bengal, 1911-80 (Paperback): Kausik Bandyopadhyay Scoring Off the Field - Football Culture in Bengal, 1911-80 (Paperback)
Kausik Bandyopadhyay
R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines how football, as a mass spectator sport, came to represent a novel, unique cultural identity of Bengali people in terms of nation, community, region/locality and club, contributing to the continuity of everyday socio-cultural life. It explains how football became a viable popular social force with a rare emotional spontaneity and peculiar self-expressive fan culture against the background of anti-imperial nationalist movement and postcolonial political tension and social transformation. In the process, it investigates certain key questions and problems in the social history of football in Bengal, which have hitherto been ignored in the existing works on the subject. The author offers some original arguments in treating football as a cultural phenomenon, setting it squarely in the context of Bengali politics and society. It strengthens the premise that social history of South Asian sport can be meaningfully understood only by looking beyond the sports field. The study, using sport as a lens, has tried to consider some relevant themes of social history, and brings forth important issues of political and cultural history of 20th-century Bengal. Simultaneously, it highlights the transformed role of football as an instrument of reaction, resistance and subversion. It indicates that the football field of Bengal proves to be a mirror image of what society experiences in its cultural and political field, through a series of historical projections of identity, difference and culture.

An Ode to the Chosen Few - Football's Piano Players (Hardcover): John McNicoll An Ode to the Chosen Few - Football's Piano Players (Hardcover)
John McNicoll
R525 R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Save R96 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Football teams comprise 11 on-field players, but as Bill Shankly once said, while some will be the more functional members of a team, you need others to 'play the piano'. Although the footballing world is littered with superstar players, some take it upon themselves - through sheer grit and determination - to drag their respective teams to glory. Both domestically and on the world stage, these stars have brought joy to fans around the globe by playing the sweetest of tunes for their clubs and countries. From Lionel Messi to Maradona, Cristiano Ronaldo to the original Ronaldo, 'Il Fenomeno', this is the story of those special players. An Ode to The Chosen Few takes a fascinating deep dive into the past glories of players and teams from different eras and cultures, alongside facts and statistics from each era.

Proud Man Walking (Paperback): Claudio Ranieri Proud Man Walking (Paperback)
Claudio Ranieri
R518 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R133 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Betrayed by his club but beloved by the fans, former Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri has been a constant headline-maker in 2004. Occasionally puzzling, often eccentric, but always fascinating and refreshing, the Italian describes the highs and lows of an extraordinary season at Stamford Bridge - and the dramatic end to his English journey. 'Hello, my sharks. Welcome to the funeral.' 'People have said I am a dead man walking - but I am still moving ' 'Tonight I am a crazy man and Roman Abramovich is also going mad like me ' We rejoiced with him. We laughed with him. And we cried with him. In what turned out to be a year for the Blues resembling more a soap opera than a season of football, Claudio Ranieri reveals the highlights and the hurt of his farewell twelve months in England. This collaboration between Italian journalist Massimo Marianella and Ranieri promises to reveal the inside story of a rollercoaster year at Stamford Bridge, with a first-hand account of coaching the most expensively assembled team in the Premiership, alongside the increasing pressures of satisfying his bosses as Chelsea's season threatened to turn into anticlimax. How did Ranieri keep all his players contented, when the value of his subs bench often exceeded that of most Premiership teams? What were the skills required to mould a group of exciting individuals into a team capable of challenging the likes of Arsenal and Manchester United at the top of the tree? With the media suggesting an uneasy alliance between Ranieri and Roman Abramovich, what was it that drove their complex relationship? What was the real truth behind the allegations that Ranieri's position was being undermined by his bosses? And when did the 'Tinkerman' discover his final denouement? Just some of the questions that will be answered in this book by arguably the most talked-about man in English football in 2004.

African Footballers in Europe - Migration, Community, and Give Back Behaviours (Hardcover): Ernest Yeboah Acheampong, Malek... African Footballers in Europe - Migration, Community, and Give Back Behaviours (Hardcover)
Ernest Yeboah Acheampong, Malek Bouhaouala, Michel Raspaud
R3,903 Discovery Miles 39 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

New topic: Give Back Phenomenon, which has contributed to a new knowledge of African footballers' migration to the European leagues. Highlights the link between the evolution of African football, footballers' migration strategies and the Give Back Phenomenon Multidisciplinary analysis based on a socioeconomic model New perspectives on research concerning professional football and local interpretation of socioeconomic development in African countries. Written by three experts in African football and economic sociology of which two are African migrants who studied in Europe.

Football in Fiction - A History (Hardcover): Lee McGowan Football in Fiction - A History (Hardcover)
Lee McGowan
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association football (soccer). It offers a theoretically informed field guide, a scholarly cartography of football fiction's uncertain - and until now - only partially explored terrain. Combining an extensive search for texts with up-to-date academic research, journals, surveys, catalogues, and reviews the book demonstrates a topographic perspective of the field - one that captures and establishes its breadth, depth, and distinctive identity. The book uses and adapts two distinct reading models of abstraction, in conjunction with closer textual analyses. Together they assist in realising a set of demonstrable conventions, outline a taxonomy of fictive types, establish the genre's current state of play, and advance the football novel as a form with its own literary history and traditions. This book is a valuable resource for those studying and researching in the areas of the social and cultural aspects of football, sports fiction, sports writing, creative writing, and literary and genre studies. Furthermore, related industry professionals will find this a fascinating read, particularly football writers, fans of the sport, and those interested in sports history and cultural phenomena.

Jack and Bobby - A Story of Brothers in Conflict (Paperback): Leo McKinstry Jack and Bobby - A Story of Brothers in Conflict (Paperback)
Leo McKinstry
R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The history of modern British football can largely be written through the stories of Jack and Bobby Charlton. Both were in the World Cup winning team of '66, and each has remained deeply involved in the game ever since. The book traces the parallel lives of Jack and Bobby Charlton, following them from their schooldays through to the present day. The brothers both played prominent roles in the finest hour of English football, the 1966 World Cup triumph. Each played for the dominant club of their era, and summed up the style of their respective teams. Bobby was at Manchester Utd during their glory days under Sir Matt Busby. He survived the Munich air crash and went on to become a fast, graceful attacker who set grounds alight with his power, speed and athleticism in a team that played free-flowing, attacking football. Jack came to professional football late, working in a coal mine before Leeds signed him. Don Revie's Leeds side was renowned for its uncompromising and physical style, and Jack was himself a tough, durable and aggressive defender, who once caused uproar by admitting he had a 'black book' with a list of footballing enemies who he would target on the pitch. The two retired from football in the same year, and since, the contrast between them has been marked. Bobby's forays into management at Wigan and Preston were distinguished only by their brevity, while 'Big Jack' took the Republic of Ireland team to an unprecendented level of success, reaching the quarter finals of the World Cup in 1994. Bobby has been a key figure in the ongoing success of Manchester United over the past decade, working on recruiting players and as an FA diplomat. But, despite their continued successes, the relationship between the two has been strained, sometimes barely even polite, and the book will investigate the reasons for this, including in-depth interviews with many of those the two have been in contact with over the years.

Ten Days That Shook Rangers (Paperback): Ronnie Esplin Ten Days That Shook Rangers (Paperback)
Ronnie Esplin
R331 Discovery Miles 3 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
When the Seagulls Follow the Trawler - Football in the 90s (Paperback): Tom Whitworth When the Seagulls Follow the Trawler - Football in the 90s (Paperback)
Tom Whitworth
R396 R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

English football changed in the 1990s. For better, for worse - but mainly for better. The shirts and shorts got baggier and brighter. Exotic-named players were enticed from overseas. New stadiums were built in the wake of the Taylor Report. The Premier League emerged and England hosted its first international tournament since 1966. The era of 'New Labour' and 'Cool Britannia', it was also the decade English football went mainstream. When the Seagulls Follow the Trawler author Tom Whitworth travelled to English football's hotbeds - the cities of London, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle - to meet the people who lived through an era of change: the players and the managers, the owners and the fans. He looks back at key moments, the teams, the title races, the twists and turns, the characters and the rivalries. All from a decade when English football began to shrug off its bad-lad image - at least off the pitch - and move out of the darkness and into the light.

The Goalkeeper's History of Britain (Paperback): Peter Chapman The Goalkeeper's History of Britain (Paperback)
Peter Chapman
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The beguiling story of one boy's dream to play in goal, that most British of positions, culminating in the moment when he faces the mighty Zico ... If the French are the flair in midfield, the Germans the attack from the inside channels, the Italians the cry-foul defence, then Britain is the goalkeeper: stand alone, the bastion of last resort, more solid than spectacular, part of the team - and yet not. And Britain's place in the world is epitomised by its goalkeepers: post war austerity is embodied in Bert Williams (Walsall and England) , a wartime PT boy whose athleticism scarcely concealed a masochistic edge: he ended his training routine with a full-length dive on to concrete; the end of Empire abroad came as the army and politicians were being humiliated in Suez and the football team, despite the best efforts of Gill Merrick (Birmingham and England), were being humbled by the Hungarians at home; the thawing of the cold war is begun not over Cuban missiles but over Lev Yashin, the superb and widely admired Russian whose arrival for the world cup in 1966 changes the attitudes of a nation - the Reds cannot be all bad if they have such an exemplary keeper. And for Peter Chapman (Orient Schoolboys and one appearance in the World Eleven to face Brasil), like his father before him (Armed Forces), it is always the goalkeeper who is the indicator of national well-being. A genuine, touching story of a nation's affection for football's perennial underdog, of a childhood obsession and of a glorious footballing tradition from Kelsey to Jennings, Swift to Trautmann, Bonetti to Shilton that culminates - perhaps ends even - in the last truly British goalkeeper: David Seaman.

The Barcelona Inheritance - The Evolution of Winning Soccer Tactics from Cruyff to Guardiola (Paperback): Jonathan Wilson The Barcelona Inheritance - The Evolution of Winning Soccer Tactics from Cruyff to Guardiola (Paperback)
Jonathan Wilson 1
R498 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R85 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Football's Black Pioneers - The Stories of the First Black Players to Represent the 92 League Clubs (Paperback): Bill Hern Football's Black Pioneers - The Stories of the First Black Players to Represent the 92 League Clubs (Paperback)
Bill Hern
R498 R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Early Development of Football - Contemporary Debates (Hardcover): Graham Curry The Early Development of Football - Contemporary Debates (Hardcover)
Graham Curry
R3,908 Discovery Miles 39 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This fascinating collection brings together leading football historians and sociologists from the UK, Germany, the USA and Australia to offer fresh perspectives on the early development of football (soccer), not only illuminating our understanding of the early history of the world's most popular sport, but also the importance of sport in our broader social and cultural history. The book presents new evidence and fresh perspectives which will inform the robust debate that has been raging about the origins and early development of football. It addresses key issues at the centre of this debate, including the influence of former English public schoolboys, the development of football subcultures outside of prestige educational institutions, and the intersection and divergence of the various football codes around the world. The Early Development of Football is an important resource for anyone working in the history of football or sports in general, football studies or the sociology of sport. It is also a useful read for those interested in sport management and the development of sports organisations and rules.

We are Sunday League - A Bittersweet, Real-Life Story from Football's Grass Roots (Paperback): Ewan Flynn We are Sunday League - A Bittersweet, Real-Life Story from Football's Grass Roots (Paperback)
Ewan Flynn 1
R308 R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Save R56 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Wizards FC was a team of former schoolfriends who - with the help of a few star ringers - slogged their way through mud, skinheads and Staffordshire bull terriers to win the Edmonton Sunday League. Team captain Ewan Flynn brings alive a world of young men giving it their all on sloping pitches a million miles from the glamour of the Premier League, and officials who volunteer to maintain some sort of order. Along the way he charts the bittersweet stories of mates who brought success to the Wizards, despite suffering disappointment in their own all-too-brief professional football careers. It's a sometimes farcical, sometimes tragic tale of growing up in north London: family tensions, friendship, being a man, and seeing where your dreams can take you - even a Roy-of-the-Rovers rise to captaining your country against the world champions. Injuries on the pitch led the writer to many encounters with the surgeon's knife in order to keep playing. He shows how once football has you, it never lets you go.

Klopp: Bring the Noise (Paperback): Raphael Honigstein Klopp: Bring the Noise (Paperback)
Raphael Honigstein 1
R337 R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Save R62 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The definitive biography of Jurgen Klopp. Jurgen Klopp was confirmed as manager of Liverpool FC in October 2015 to a rapturous reception. His super-sized personality and all-or-nothing style of football and management made him the perfect choice to pump up the volume at Anfield and lift Liverpool out of a slump. Fans and club officials were delighted to get the coach they'd long admired from afar and eager to see the impact he would have on the club and the Premier League. Klopp is the manager to turn players into winners. He's authentic, approachable and funny, charming media and fans alike. He's also merciless and exceptionally driven, his quick temper bubbling away barely under the surface. Klopp's pitch-side passion has enthralled fans, leading to 2019's triumphant Champions League win and culminating in 2020 Premier League victory With exclusive access to Klopp's friends, family, colleagues and players, Raphael Honigstein goes behind-the-scenes at Liverpool to tell the definitive story of Klopp's career and how he brought Liverpool to victory.

The Official England Football Annual 2023 (Hardcover): The Official England Football Annual 2023 (Hardcover)
R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"In this Annual, we take you closer to the team you love. There is a detailed look back at both Gareth Southgate's men's season and also the women's - including analysis of the UEFA Women's Euro 2022. We learn more about both team members through squad profiles and articles on captains Harry Kane and Steph Houghton. Elsewhere there are a variety of special features, insider looks and fun facts, as well as games and puzzles for everyone to enjoy. The Official England Annual 2023 is a must-read for England fans! COME ON ENGLAND!"

Football Fandom, Protest and Democracy - Supporter Activism in Turkey (Hardcover): Daghan Irak Football Fandom, Protest and Democracy - Supporter Activism in Turkey (Hardcover)
Daghan Irak
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Football Fandom, Protest and Democracy offers an in-depth and inside approach to the socio-political history of football in Turkey, where fandom is often revered as part of the national identity, presenting the historical context for football events in the country. Based on original research, the book explores the complex political processes at play in modern Turkey and deepens our understanding of fandom, fan activism and protest movements, questioning all presuppositions about the society and football fandom in Turkey. In particular, it examines the role of football fans in the pro-democracy Gezi Protests of 2013, the history of football in Turkey, the sociology of middle-classes and the transformation of football in the country. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book is a valuable resource for scholars and students of sports sociology, popular culture studies, Turkish studies and media studies.

The Official Aston Villa Annual 2023 (Hardcover): The Official Aston Villa Annual 2023 (Hardcover)
R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Another season - another Villa Annual. And once again, it's packed with everything a young Villa supporter could wish for. There are superb photos and features about your favourite players, including the club's summer signings, a month-by month review of the previous season, a look at some of Villa's past - and a spotlight on the players who made history as the youngest team to represent the club in a senior match. In addition, the 2023 edition of the Official Aston Villa Annual includes puzzles to test your knowledge of all things claret and blue and takes you inside the Bodymoor Heath training ground."

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