Win or Else – Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985

Win or Else – Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985During the early 1920s, the Soviet press denounced football as a bourgeois sport that was injurious to both mind and body. Within that same decade, however, it became the most popular spectator sport in the USSR, growing into a fiercely competitive business with complex regional and national bureaucracies and a conviction that victory on the field was also a victory for Soviet supremacy. The author looks at the history of football in the country as a

Along the way

Ruddock recounts how he spiralled so far out of control that he lost sight of who he really was

Size: 161mm x 241mm – 384 pages

A look at the colourful 44 year history of the Intercontinental Cup

Includes many previously unpublished photographs

covering his work in coaching and management alongside his struggles to stay sober over the past 20 years

his skills and goals earning him a place in the Hall of Fame at both clubs

Size: 215mm x 276mm – 141 pages

This detailed statistical record features the results of every game played in the Eerste Klasse (1

An enormous well-illustrated

the legendary Everton and England striker recently-retired and just weeks into his new career as a talent scout

Size: 155mm x 234mm – 319 pages