⚽️🏀🏈⚾️Sports books coming in 2026 🎾🏉🏒⛳️
A 🧵of some of the fantastic sports books coming next year.
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After all the excitement of my own book launch on Friday, it was a privilege to join fellow authors @MsSDuggal and Simon Crump at @LeedsLit Fest to celebrate @Ofmooseandmen’s 20th Anniversary yesterday. Fantastic event in a stunning setting (@leedslibraries) 📚
My debut book Emancipation For Goalposts, which explores the role of football within Yugoslavia and the countries that came after it is out now for £9.99 via @OckleyBooks. Order it here ⬇️
ockleybooks.co.uk/shop/emanc…
.Just finished reading #Mundiales by Mark Biram and @Tim_Vickery A South American History of the World Cup.
An excellent read from start to finish which I would thoroughly recommend 👍
Published by @PitchPublishing
Just bought these three beauties. @obrien_jonathan’s brand-new, three volume series on the history of the World Cup. Will fill in the lonely hours between matches.
I love publication day.
Congratulations to Rob Potts.
Today we publish and launch.
A Football Odyssey - Passion, Politics & The Beautiful Game.
Written by a fan for fans
Signing books today - 4-5 pm @TrumanBooks
Marvelous.
@RestIsFootball@guardian_sport@thebookseller
New Book Alert: happy publication day to Red
Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine, by Jules Boykoff. Available straight from @orbooks here: orbooks.com/catalog/red-card…
Cannot recommend the latest epic from @MarkKriegel enough. His book on Mike Tyson's rise, "Baddest Man," is an unfiltered thrill ride. There hasn't been an athlete humanized like this in a long time: amazon.com/Baddest-Man-Makin…
Finally finished it today. Good stuff. Lots of data and different ways of looking at how to change some of the things in boxing. And of course, finishing it with a Lou Dibella Q&A may be worth the price of the book on its own. 🤣 Definitely a hardcore fans book @HamilcarPubs
Congratulations to @PaulTenorio — can't wait to dig into this.
...He's been putting in the work since covering preps in Loudoun County. Now has a book on the biggest sports star in the world right before covering the biggest event in the world.
Brilliant book about a flawed genius by one of the UK’s most underrated sports writers and brilliant journalists of the past three decades, @timrich001.
Thanks to the legend @nate_bukaty for a copy of his book, “Perfect Pitch”.
Nate is great. Kansas City is great. The World Cup is great.
Let the summer of soccer begin!
Pelé. The King. Santos. New York Cosmos. Brazil. Three World Cups. More than 1000 goals. Voted the greatest athlete of the 20th century.
Discover the real Pelé in 'Epic; the many lives of Pele' by @adowniebrazil
Out 5 November.
Pre-order:: linktr.ee/andrewdownie
Pelé. The King. Santos. New York Cosmos. Brazil. Three World Cups. More than 1000 goals. Voted the greatest athlete of the 20th century.
Discover the real Pelé in 'Epic; the many lives of Pele' by @adowniebrazil
Out 5 November.
Pre-order:: linktr.ee/andrewdownie
As the prawn sandwich brigade take over football
There are still some football teams around the world that stick to their founding principles
A Football Odyssey - Passion, Politics & the Beautiful Game by @RJP_Writes@RestIsFootball@guardian_sport@TrumanBooks
𝐍𝐄𝐖 | ARGENTINA, A TALE OF TWO UTOPIAS by Tomas Rothaus
🇦🇷 A thrilling first-person account of the December 2001 uprising in Argentina, from the intersection of anarchism, football, and the crisis of neoliberalism.
🛒 stanchionbooks.com/products/…
A final reminder: If you purchase a copy of my latest book, "Moses and the Doctor," as a Father's Day gift, shoot me an email (my address is in my bio) and I'll mail you a signed bookplate and two cards of Dr. J and Moses Malone.