The Football Weekly Book

by Jonathan Wilson (Editor), Barry Glendenning (Editor), Max Rushden (Editor)

Overview

Enter the world of soccer’s most popular podcast.

Football Weekly — the biggest football (that's soccer to you) podcast in the world – has decided the time (and money) is right for their first book. It will contain all the nonsense jokes, off-the-wall trivia and occasional insightful remarks that has more than half a million listeners tuning in every week. Expect all the trademark humour of their hugely successful live shows, plus: 

- Max Rushden and Barry Glendenning’s blind date

- Mark Langdon’s ‘World of Meat’ 
- Jonathan Liew’s ‘You Are the Ref’
- Ben Fisher’s ‘Guide to Carparks’
- Snakes and Blatters, a thrilling new board game set in the Machiavellian world of FIFA politics
- Philippe Auclair’s no-holds-barred account of everything that is wrong at FIFA [redacted]
- And an exclusive David Squires cartoon 

Edited by Jonathan Wilson, the annual will feature the full pod line-up of: Barry Glendenning — Max Rushden — Barney Ronay — Jonathan Liew — Suzie Wrack — Nicky Bandini — David Squires — Jordan Jarrett-Bryan – Elis James – Nedum Onuoha – John Brewin

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783352906
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	11/28/2023
Pages:	99
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Wilson is a British sports journalist and contributor to Football Weekly. He writes for Guardian, Sports Illustrated, World Soccer and Unibet. He is the founder and editor of the Blizzard. His book Inverting the Pyramid was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and won ‘Best Football Book’ at the British Sports Book Awards. He is the author of eleven other books.

Hometown:

Newton, Massachusetts

Date of Birth:

February 26, 1950

Place of Birth:

London, England

Education:

B.A., First Class, University of Essex 1973; Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1980