Books

Can anyone recommend some good football books?

I just finished Among the Thugs by Bill Buford. It was quite entertaining, provided some interesting insight to the world of English football in the late '80s, and presented some compelling arguments regarding crowd behavior and its influence on hooliganism.

Now I'm looking for something new.

 

Highly recommend The Ball is Round by David Goldblatt. It's long, but I couldn't put it down when I read it 10+ years ago.

 

My son liked Fever Pitch (not to be confused with the Jimmy Fallon/Drew Barrymore movie of the same name) from the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy

 

My top-ish 5 futbol books (in no particular order)

Soccer in the sun and shadow- Eduardo Galeano
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football- David Winner
Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life- Alex Bellos
Das Reboot- Honigstein
Finn McCools Football Club- The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead

I also second The Ball is Round- essentially "the bible" for soccer historians