From a multiple New York Times bestselling author, the rollicking, outrageous, you-can't-make-this-up story of the USFL The United States Football League--known fondly to millions of sports fans as the USFL--was the last football league to not merely challenge the NFL, but cause its owners and executives to collectively shudder. It spanned three seasons, 1983-85. It secured multiple television deals. It drew millions of fans and launched the careers of legends. But then it died beneath the weight of a particularly egotistical and bombastic owner--a New York businessman named Donald J. Trump. The league featured as many as 18 teams, and included such superstars as Steve Young, Jim Kelly, Herschel Walker, Reggie White, Doug Flutie and Mike Rozier. In Football for a Buck, the dogged reporter and biographer Jeff Pearlman draws on more than four hundred interviews to unearth all the salty, untold stories of one of the craziest sports entities to have ever captivated America. From 1980s drug excess to airplane brawls and player-coach punch outs, to backroom business deals, to some of the most enthralling and revolutionary football ever seen, Pearlman transports readers back in time to this crazy, boozy, audacious, unforgettable era of the game. He shows how fortunes were made and lost on the backs of professional athletes and also how, thirty years ago, Trump was a scoundrel and a spoiler. For fans of Terry Pluto's Loose Balls or Jim Bouton's Ball Four and of course Pearlman's own stranger-than-fiction narratives, Football for a Buck is sports as high entertainment--and a cautionary tale of the dangers of ego and excess.

A perfect buy for young football fans with puzzles, games and footie activities starring Bang on the Door's super-popular number one player He's even better than Becks With colouring fun, spot the difference, shadow play and a cool game, there's so much in this fantastic activity book it will keep young footie fans quiet for hours Full colour throughout -- it's a winner

In Crazy World of Football: The Bathroom Edition, author Colin Mitchell chronicles the games, facts and stories that make you laugh and shake your head-- the biggest scores, the crazy comebacks, the player riots, silly superstitions and mad happenings on and off the pitch. You won't believe some of the stories in this book: the manager who peed near the corner flag to get rid of a gypsy curse, the South American goal-keeper who was killed when he conceded a goal and the fan banned for life for throwing a dog at the ref! The list is endless. Published in an flexi splash back cover this 'bathroom edition' is the ideal book for the obsessive football fan.

Timed perfectly for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Chuck Korr and Marvin Close's More Than Just a Game tells the timeless true story of how political prisoners under apartheid found hope and dignity through soccer. In the hell that was Robben Island, inmates united courageously in an act of protest. Beginning in 1964, they requested the right to play soccer during their exercise periods. Denied repeatedly, they risked beatings and food deprivation by repeating their request for three years. Finally granted this right, the prisoners banded together to form a multi-tiered, pro-level league that ran for more than two decades and served as an impassioned symbol of resistance against apartheid. Former Robben Island inmate Nelson Mandela noted in the documentary FIFA: 90 Minutes for Mandela, "Soccer is more than just a game.... The energy, passion, and dedication this game created made us feel alive and triumphant despite the situation we found ourselves in."

Special travel case including a fun-packed activity book, a storybook and cool stationery Summer fun starts here with a specially designed travel pack you can take anywhere Read Football Crazy, a fun picture book -- 32 fully colour illustrated pages with a cool story for footie fans. Get busy with Football Crazy's Activity Book -- hours of games, puzzles, colouring and activities. Plus cool crayons