A gripping account of how football captured a nation

A breezy, readable and nuanced primer to the centrality of football to Brazilian life

Compelling, lucidly written, and furnished with detail to spare

Futebol Nation isn't really about sport - it's a pimples-and-all portrait of the world's sixth
largest country and the many ways it has succeeded in shooting itself in both feet

The story of an amazing season wonderfully told through the eyes of the men who made it happen. I can't recommend it highly enough

Fascinating for any sports fan and truly a gold mine for Arsenal supporters

A fascinating and engrossing read from start to finish. Provides wonderful insight and anecdotes as well as revealing the dynamics and determination from within the dressing room

I picked it up and couldn't put it down. Brilliantly depicts a piece of football history

This is research at its riveting best. My only complaint about the book is that it had to end

If you were there in 71 and/or 2004, buy the book. If only now do you appreciate that we probably had four of the six best payers on the planet back then, buy the book and read their words. Let me make it simple. If you are an Arsenal supporter, buy the book

This is a book that contains some of the most evocative prose I have encountered in a book about football and without doubt solidifies Lawrence's place in the very top tier of sports writing in English. The story and characters are fascinating enough, but it is how they come to life and dance in Lawrence's writing that makes this book such a wonderful telling of an incredible tale

Lawrence is a writer who will help the reader to appreciate the football on the pitch with an understanding of how the game is played few can match. At the same time she never fails to appreciate the passion that makes us fans

A gripping account of Arsenal's undefeated title winning season of 2003/4

The atmosphere of the Sixties is re-created brilliantly.

Hamilton through the stories and backstories of others broadens his horizons to explain the phenomenon that was Best and the world that destroyed him. Offering up new material and new perspective, Hamilton, as one reviewer would opined, mastered biography.

Dickinson is tender to the memory of the Essex lad who, for a breathtaking instant, was glorious

Matt's work is the most impressive West Ham book of the year, a genuine and sincere attempt to get to the root of the man. It is an excellent, thought-provoking book

A compelling and complete account

In The Man in Full, acclaimed football writer Matt Dickinson traces the journey of this Essex boy, peeling away the layers of legend and looking at Moore’s life from all sides – in triumph, in failure, in full

Outstanding... this excellent biography comes very close to describing the real Bobby Moore