Kingdom of Football
Saudi Arabia and the Remaking of World Soccer
ISBN: HB: 9781911723660,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2025
264 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
264 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A fascinating account of how Saudi Arabia leveraged its massive oil wealth to alter the balance of power in world football.
"Kingdom of Football" explores how and why Saudi Arabia burst onto the landscape of world football in 2023, and examines wh...
HB:
20.00 GBP
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Newcastle United Stole My Heart
Sixty Years in Black and White
ISBN: PB: 9781805260394,
ISBN: HB: 9781787385573,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2023
384 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 19 illus.
384 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 19 illus.
Chosen as a "Book of the Year" by David Kynaston in the New Statesman
The magnificent story of a writer's lifelong obsession with his city and its football club.
When 5-year-old Michael Chaplin landed in a strange city of ships in the late 1950s...
PB:
11.99 GBP
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HB:
15.99 GBP
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Football in the Middle East
State, Society, and the Beautiful Game
ISBN: PB: 9781787387133,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2022
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A tour d'horizon exploring how the world's best-loved game is affecting people, societies and governments across the region.
Far and away the most popular sport in the world, football has a special place in Middle Eastern societies, and for Middle...
PB:
25.00 GBP
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Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer
ISBN: PB: 9781849043311,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2016
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
James M. Dorsey introduces the reader to the world of Middle Eastern and North African football – an arena where struggles for political control, protest and resistance, self-respect and gender rights are played out. Politics was the midwife of soc...
PB:
25.00 GBP
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Country of Football
Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil
ISBN: PB: 9781849044172,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2014
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Brazil has done much to shape football, but how has football shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work...
PB:
16.99 GBP
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African Soccerscapes
How a Continent Changed the World's Game
ISBN: PB: 9781849040389,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2010
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, African football today reflects the history and culture of those who play the game and how they have shaped it in a distinctively African manner. Football may obey global rules, but the influence of ma...
PB:
20.00 GBP
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