Scottish Soccer

Kwame Mensah is the most-watched man in the league, and the loneliest. Three million followers. A goal that's trending before he's off the pitch. A second smile that arrives half a beat after the real one and stays for the cameras. Kwame has built a life where being seen feels like being known — and he's never once noticed the difference. Why would he? Everyone's watching. Nobody's looking. Liam Novak isn't impressed. The club's new physiotherapist is Scottish, dry, and completely immune to the brand — a man who puts his hands on an athlete's body and listens to it instead of the noise ...

For fans of Ted Lasso and Welcome to Wrexham, this rollicking travel memoir by a middle-aged Midwesterner is a hilarious and heartfelt journey through the United Kingdom, its football clubs, and the rich traditions of English football culture. Relegation, the devastating consequence English...

After an astonishing career, soccer coach Sir Alex Ferguson analyzes the pivotal leadership decisions of his time as a manager and, with his friend and collaborator Sir Michael Moritz, draws out lessons for success in both business and life. "A case study in leadership." —Financial Times From...

Ryan Callahan handles Boston's worst problems for a living. He is not prepared for the loud Scottish stranger who fixes a street riot with a traffic cone and a grin. Ryan has spent the whole football summer keeping other people's disasters from becoming his. Permits, crowds, panicking bar managers: whatever goes wrong, he is the man who makes it go away. Getting attached to a supporter who flies home in three weeks was never part of the plan. Ewan MacRae is only in Boston for the tournament. He has friends to wrangle, matches to watch, and a flight home to Glasgow, to his classroom and his ...

Each November, about a hundred people with paper poppies pinned to their coats gather around a memorial in Edinburgh. They're there to commemorate the more than a dozen members of the local football team, Heart of Midlothian - almost every member of its starting lineup and many of its backup players - who went to war. A Bigger Field Awaits Us tells the little-known but poignant story of a group of Scottish athletes and their fans who went to war together - and the stories of the few who made it home.