Football Books

I just love this book because of the sheer volume of questions and answers it contains. Perfect for hours of challenging your buddies or familiy members.

This is a fantastic photo album of the Browns. Paul Tepley has covered the Browns over the year and has really been able to capture the moments. This is a huge 13 x 10 books packed with color photos and memories.

Cliff Charpentier's Fantasy Football Digest, not only gives you the best ratings of players you can choose for your team, but it also gives you alot of information about how you can start, and run a league successfully. He is a very insightful and informative author who helped me and my friends have a fun time during the season.

This book dates from 2002, and the last chapter is largely devoted to the state of English football at that date. The sports-obsessed have much longer memories than that, and anyone wanting to know how the (nearly) current scene was viewed by the greatest genius, I'm in no doubt at all, who ever managed an English club can read all about it here. Clough was often wrong, and even he knew that, but much oftener right. Where his crystal ball deceived him in 2002 was in the belief that Alec Ferguson was over the hill. Ferguson has just won the league title again with Manchester United in 2007. It is a terrific achievement and a terrific career, and it's not over yet. To say the least of it, not everyone could have done what Ferguson has, even with Manchester United. What I don't believe Ferguson or any man could have equalled was what Clough achieved with two obscure and unfashionable clubs.

I remember nothing about Clough's career as a player, because that was with minor sides and it was before the blanket TV coverage that we have today. Cloughie himself gives us no opportunity to forget what a great goal-scorer he was before a knee injury brought his playing days to an abrupt end. He went into management because he had bills to pay and a family to support, and he discovered that he had another talent too - he could teach. To put it mildly, he could communicate. To put it even more mildly, he didn't miss and hit the wall with his more acerbic opinions. That was what I used to love about him but, understandably, it didn't endear him to many. He was the glaringly obvious choice for manager of the England team, but governing bodies in sport tend to be side-issue specialists and of course greatly persuaded of their own importance, and they sensed (it would have been impossible not to) that Clough's estimate of that was well short of theirs.

In case you didn't know that Clough was a conceited bigmouth he tells us that himself. He had any amount to be conceited about, and he knows that too. He plays the standard game of disparaging what he calls his `brains', and he was certainly not intellectually inclined. What he had was clear insight - what was blindingly obvious to him would never have been clear to many others in nine lifetimes, and any modern manager or coach wanting or needing to know some home truths could never complain about lack of clarity in Clough's account. Even he wasn't born knowing it. In his playing days it was all about scoring goals, but he was ahead of the others in appreciating that even if the forwards play like world-beaters a defence that plays like panel-beaters and lets in a goal for every goal scored will undo whatever the forwards achieve.

He is as ruthless in describing his own downfall as he ever was in showing up anyone else's shortcomings. It was drink that nearly killed him, and he leads off with that story. If there is a touch of reticence, even from Clough, it shows in the way he can hardly bear to describe how his befuddled judgment led to his disastrous last season at Nottingham Forest. I found the book very readable indeed. He repeats himself a bit, he meanders a bit, but so what? It wasn't the booze that killed him, it was cancer. Like George Best he had to have a liver transplant. Unlike George Best he was not intent on destroying himself and he stopped the drinking before it put an end to him. He was, quite simply, a genius, and our loss was not down to his own frailty but to the nincompoops in charge of selecting an England manager. He tells us that as well, as of course you would expect, and he tells it in his own inimitable way. What improvement, if any, there has been in that department I'm not at all sure. However even from beyond the grave he can still teach, and some lessons worth learning could hardly be clearer than the way they are put across here.

This is a very interesting and fascinating story of a lady who over-came tremendous odds to accomplish a very different task which lead to her becoming the first woman to coach an all male football team. Her great perseverance, dedication, faith, and family seemed to have provided the foundation for success through out her life (particularly in her education and career). She never let anything pervent her from reaching her goals regardless of the difficulty. It's a wonderful story of one becoming anything they want to with faith, confidence and persistency. A must read for all ages!

This is a book all coaches of athletics should be required to read, as it exemplifies the importance of assisting athletes in their personal development, not just that athletic skills. "Tiger" Ellison was a motivator, innovater, and educator whose approach to coaching was to prepare his athletes for life, not just for athletics. I was priviledged to have known him and was pleased that his daughter wrote this fitting tribute to him.

This book does not talk about passing the ball to compliment a running game. It is not designed to discuss a balanced offensive attack. This book is about attacking through the air with a complete ball control passing game.

The Coach's Guide to Developing a Passing Game provides detailed information concerning how to develop quarterbacks, receivers and pass blockers. Both physical and mental aspects of the passing game are discussed. Develomental programs in strength-training, technique drills, film study and mental preparation designed to produce successful offensive personnel are also included.

The Coach's Guide to Developing a Passing Game includes a thorough discussion of the passing game philosophy and strategy. The book incorporates page after page of factual support for the attack passing game that will help the head coach sell it to his assistant coaches, players and fans alike.

The Coach's Guide to Developing a Passing Game contains material that is invaluable in preparing a year round program for your players. Drills that will develop a champion are diagrammed and explained in detail. Photos and diagrams show the proper techniques for all aspects of passing, receiving and blocking in close-up sequences.

The Coach's Guide to Developing a Passing Game contains: sample competitive season practice plans, spring training practice plans, summer training programs, strength development programs, pass patterns, blocking rules, technique development, motivation, awards programs, scouting and game plans.

The "Multiflex" - "Mass Motion" - "Run and Shoot" attack passing game can make any program a winner. This offense can create many exciting afternoons for your fans.
--- from book's Preface

"The 3-3-5 Defense" is by far the best book that Leo Hand has written. It covers player assignments, techniques, drills, coaching terminology, and lots of diagrams, It is easy to read and well written.

His football terminology maybe a little too much for a new coach, however, all you have to do is look at the diagrams and you will see what he is talking about. A must buy book for any football coach that wants to run the 3-3-5 Defense.

I have been running this defense for some time, i bought the book hoping to find a new wrinkle. This book covers every aspect of the defense in depth this is an A to Z type book. Coaches wanting to implement this defense should purchase this book. I've got DVDs and other resources on this defense, but if i would have purchased this book from jump i know the dvds would not have been necessary. O.K. maybe the Georgia Military 45 Blitz DVD. Like i said a great resource.

I play D line at BSU and this book incoporated and explained a lot of the drills we did when I was playing. It also gave me ideas for new drills. I recommend this book to D line coaches.