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Description: Football inspired resources - both accessible images and titles - both fiction and non fiction! Aimed at children and young people reading.
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by Steve Barlow and Steve SkidmoreIt's not easy supporting the bottom team in the football league . My team, Mudchester United have been drawn against Kingston FC in the FA Cup! Kingston won the Premier League last year. Their team is stuffed full of famous players from all over the world. This will be the biggest game ever in Mudchester's history. Alex Beasley is a football fanatic. He dreams that one day his favourite team will play at Wembley in the FA Cup final. Sadly, this is not likely to happen, because the team he supports is Mudchester United, the worst club in the Football League. Could this season be different? When Mudchester are drawn against a premiership side in the FA Cup, could they turn out to be this year's giant killers? Help Key Stage 3 students move from Level 3b to Level 3a in reading. Support comprehension with the funny, age-appropriate illustrations. Encourage shared and guided reading using the ready-made tasks and discussion points on the activity pages at the back of the book. Suitable for Key Stage 3 students with a reading age of 9 years.
Rules of The Game
by James NixonLearn about each law in the football rulebook and gain an edge over your opponents. The book explains the equipment you will need, the job of the referee, the offside law, the different types of fouls and much more!The Football File series shows you how to master the beautiful game. Each book has tips for training and playing, as well as an introduction to some of the stars of the sport.
The Secret Footballer
by The Secret FootballerSince his first book was published in 2012, The Secret Footballer has been able to take the reader behind the scenes of footballers' lives like no other player has been able, or will ever be able, to do. Anonymity has been a potent weapon in revealing the real world of football stars, and five years on, he has now penned the work that all his fellow professionals have been urging him to do from the start, The Secret Footballer: What Goes on Tour. And it isn't going to stay on tour any more...From Marbella and Ibiza to Dubai and Las Vegas, The Secret Footballer lays bare the worst, most embarrassing and most hilarious excesses of these fit and mostly fickle young men whose million-pound salaries, to use his own words, 'open up a host of recreational opportunities'. Fuelled by rampaging desires for sex, drugs, booze and rock'n'roll, these footballers think up ever more extreme ways of splashing the cash, and needless to say, it doesn't always end well...
Shooting and Scoring
by James NixonLearn how to become a top goalscorer. The book shows you how to improve skills, such as long-range shooting, heading, poaching, volleying and much more!The Football File series shows you how to master the beautiful game. Each book has tips for training and playing, as well as an introduction to some of the stars of the sport.
Steven Gerrard and Theo Walcott
by Rory CallanSteven Gerrard is a football superstar - a no-nonsense midfielder with an incredible goal-scoring record. He has shared the joy of winning and losing with both club and country. Now you can read Steven's sensational story, from his first club appearance to his World Cup performances, inside.Theo Walcott is one of the fastest midfielders in the league, with breathtaking pace. Now you can catch up with his rise through the ranks of club and country to first-team football."Football All-Stars is an essential read for every football fan!"
Street Sports: Street Football
by Paul Mason and Sarah EasonThe awesome creativity of street football is taking the world of urban street sports by storm - make sure it's on your radar! Look inside to find a real life story of a young, talented street footballer, a start story featuring a world class professional street footballing duo and a 5-minute interview with an expert in the street football scene. Are you on the radar?
Studying Football
by Ellis Cashmore and Kevin DixonFootball is the most widely played, watched and studied sport in the world. It’s hard to develop a full understanding of the significance of sport in global society without understanding the significance of football. Studying Football is the first book designed specifically to guide and support the study of football on degree-level courses, across the full range of social-scientific perspectives. Written by a team of leading international football experts, and considering themes of globalization, corporatization and prejudice and discrimination throughout, it introduces key topics in football studies, including: media and celebrity identity, fandom and consumption gender violence racism corruption Every chapter includes up-to-date case study material, a ‘Research in Action’ section and features to aid student understanding and bring theory to life. Studying Football introduces all the key themes and facets of the social-scientific study of football, and is therefore an essential text for students on football studies courses and useful reading for any undergraduates studying the sociology of sport more generally.
Total Football
by David Woods and Jon HaynesFootball systems, changing room banter and a couple of mops solve the big questions of life – immortality, happiness and why England always lose, in a new play tackling the beautiful game.After several years of embedded research in the football darklands, a failed attempt to create a UK football team for the 2012 games and pathetic efforts at understanding the offside rule, Ridiculusmus is patching up its metatarsals to examine the melting pot of what it means to be British today.
Total Football
by Alan GibbonsThe Rough Diamonds are a close knit team. Kev McGovern, their captain, makes sure they work hard and play hard. Kev is stunned when he discovers that Dave has to cope with epilepsy. When he suffers a major attack, the victory the Rough Diamonds are so desperate to win, hangs in the balance.
Unbelievable Football
by Matt OldfieldThe perfect gift for the football-mad kid in your life.Football is the world's favourite game where there's everything to play for and anything can happen. Like, a dog walking on the pitch in injury time and saving your team from relegation... A goal keeper saving two crucial goals with a broken neck... Or even a game erupting in no man's land between the British and German soldiers during the Christmas Truce. From great events to the completely unknown and down-right ridiculous, these are the best stories from the beautiful game. Compiled by bestselling author Matt Oldfield, Unbelievable Football will keep young fans entertained for hours.
World Cup
by Clive GiffordFrom its long history to the preparations for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, this fascinating book is an essential guide for players and spectators. Find out how qualifying rounds work, see where the matches will be held in 2014 and read about previous winners. The series is aimed at readers with an interest in the sport - whether they play the game, are an avid fan, or are just an armchair enthusiast.
World Cup Football
by Clive GiffordPerfect for capturing a young general reader's or an older reluctant reader's interest, this hi-lo title features gripping, minimal, fact-based text, dramatic and impactful pictures, and an edgy design to reveal the best player, best team and best stadium!
Zlatan (PDF)
by Matt Oldfield and Tom Oldfield'With the TV cameras watching, Zlatan roared like a lion. It was his tenth league title in only twelve years but he never got tired of winning.' Zlatan follows the Swedish superstar on his amazing journey from the tough streets of Malmö to becoming the deadly striker at Manchester United. Along the way he has been a star for Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, and Paris Saint-Germain, as well as becoming Sweden's all-time leading scorer. This is the story of one of a generation's finest footballers. Ultimate Football Heroesis a series of biographies telling the life-stories of the biggest and best footballers in the world and their incredible journeys from childhood fan to super-star professional player. Written in fast-paced, action-packed style these books are perfect for all the family to collect and share.