{"title":"April 2026 titles","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"about-to-fall-apart","title":"About to Fall Apart - **SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE**","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the publisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Poignant and tender' - Ferdia Lennon\u003cbr\u003e'A dynamic voice' - Irenosen Okojie\u003cbr\u003e'Lushly written and formally audacious . . . moving' - Nicolas Padamsee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of one man's weekend, a weekend in which everything could change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese lines could change everything \/He sips more of his tinny \/Imagines a new life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAidy's just punched a co-worker, but he hasn't got time to deal with the fallout. With a deadline fast looming he must get home, knuckle down and finish the story he's been working on, a story he hasn't been able to stop thinking about. 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The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of Klopp, a funny and insightful look at one of Britain's greatest and strangest football greats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was stranger than he knew - than any of us knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEngland captain. Mercurial competitor. Pop star manqué. The Face of Brut 33. Pioneer of the footballers' perm. Twice winner of the Ballon d'Or. Kevin Keegan owned the 1970s. We had never seen his like before. There appeared to be nothing he could fail at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracking his career from youth-team player at Scunthorpe to the England manager's job, by way of Liverpool, Newcastle and Hamburg, Keegan considers the extravagant highs of a football man who touched the game with genius, who was never sacked and who came within an ace of triumph as a manager. 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Its domestic league is mocked on social media as an uncompetitive ‘Farmers League’ and its clubs derided for underachieving in European competition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut France have reached four of the past seven men’s World Cup finals, French players star week in, week out for the world’s grandest clubs and the very best of French football – the roar of the Vélodrome, the glamour of the Parc des Princes, the shimmering brilliance of Zinédine Zidane, Éric Cantona and Kylian Mbappé – stands comparison with anything the sport has to offer. When it comes to scandal, meanwhile, the French are the best in the business, be it sensational match-fixing affairs, squabbles over sex tapes or meltdowns within the national squad. In this fascinating and exhaustively researched book, the first of its kind in the English language, Tom Williams brings to life French football’s chequered coming of age over the last 40 years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe details how the starry-eyed romanticism that characterised the national team in the early 1980s gave way to an Italian-style pragmatism that would lead Les Bleus to the summit of the international game in the late 1990s, and examines how a succession of star-studded club sides grappled with the thorny (and distinctly un-French) notion of how to win. By delving into French football's rich history, he also explains the myriad ways – tactical, technical and cultural – in which France has shaped the game’s evolution around the world. Featuring exclusive interviews with great figures of the French game such as Alain Giresse, Jean-Pierre Papin, Emmanuel Petit and Blaise Matuidi, and with a cast of characters that also includes Michel Platini, Thierry Henry, Karim Benzema, Chris Waddle and Lionel Messi, it's a book no football fan will want to miss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A comprehensive account of the highs, lows and scandals of French football’ – Jonathan Wilson, author of the bestselling INVERTING THE PYRAMID\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs it turns out, what was required to really define the identity of our football was a perspective that was partly inward-looking and partly continental. Erudite and engrossing, this book adds a biting modernity to the old legend of France's magnificent losers. -- Vincent Duluc, lead football writer, L’ÉQUIPE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliams is an engaging and intelligent storyteller, who knows France well beyond sport. 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A delightful insight into the history, the culture and the values of French football. Having worked in France for three years now, it helped me understand so many concepts and words that they use in the weird and wonderful world that is la Ligue 1. -- Will Still, head coach, Reims\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEntertaining, vivid and painstakingly researched, Williams' prose brilliantly captures the juxtaposition of France's extraordinary flair for the game and its public's love-hate relationship with it. -- Andy Brassell, European football journalist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book that students of the game have been waiting for. - Game of the People\u003cbr\u003eabsorbing, hugely entertaining ... illuminating ... an absolute joy. ... 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