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Photographic History of British Football

By Parragon

A Race for Madmen: The Extraordinary History of the Tour de France

By Chris Sidwells

Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport

By Rob Steen

BBC Sports Report: A Celebration of the World's Longest-Running Sports Radio Programme: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023

By Pat Murphy

Barry Norman's Book of Cricket

By Barry Norman

Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire

By Martin Fletcher

When Football Came Home: England, the English and Euro 96

By Michael Gibbons

Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing

By John Rousmaniere

Soccer in the 1930s: Simple or Sublime?

By Jack Rollin

Turf Wars: A History of London Football

By Steve Tongue

The Football Man: People & Passions in Soccer

By Arthur Hopcraft, Michael Parkinson

Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win

By Rachel Ignotofsky

The England Managers: The Impossible Job

By Brian Scovell

Homer Kelley's Golfing Machine: The Curious Quest that Solved Golf

By Scott Gummer

Fair Game: Myth and Reality in Sport

By Eric Midwinter

Golf's Strangest Rounds: Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of golf (Strangest)

By Andrew Ward

By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions; 10th anniversary edition

By Richard Cohen

The Totally Football Book

By James Richardson

The Illustrated History of Football: the highs and lows of football, brought to life in comic form...

By David Squires

Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket

By Fay, Stephen, Kynaston, David

Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?: The Story of English Football's Forgotten Tribe

By Anthony Clavane

Reflections on Mexico '68

By Keith Brewster (Newcastle University, UK)

Glorious Goodwood: A Biography of England's Greatest Sporting Estate

By James Peill

The Fastest Show on Earth: The Mammoth Book of Formula 1

By Chicane

Red on Red: Liverpool, Manchester United and the fiercest rivalry in world football

By Phil McNulty, Jim White

Red on Red: Liverpool, Manchester United and the fiercest rivalry in world football

By Phil McNulty, Jim White

The Random History of Golf: Embarrassing Shanks & Outrageous Slices

By Aubrey Day, Justyn Barnes, Tony Husband

Building the Yellow Wall: The Incredible Rise and Cult Appeal of Borussia Dortmund: WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019

By Uli Hesse

Here to Compete: The Inside Story of Newcastle United and the Era of Eddie Howe

By Pete Graves

Soccernomics (2022 World Cup Edition): Why European Men and American Women Win and Billionaire Owners Are Destined to Lose

By Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski