The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J. K. Rowling

This book was mentioned as a new adventure for Harry Potter that was culturally relevant in the summer of 2003.

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Harry Potter had a new adventure with The Order of the Phoenix and at the movies, The Lord of the Rings trilogy finally had its ending and then another five minutes later and then another.

Gazza in Italy

Daniel Storey

This book, which is about Italia 90 and Paul Gascoigne's time at Lazio, was plugged by the author, who mentioned it also has an audiobook version.

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It would be remiss of me not to point out that there is a book called Gazza in Italy about Italia 90 and then Gazza at Lazio, written by me with a forward by James.

The Mixer

Michael Cox

This book was described as the definitive history of the Premier League, and the speaker highlighted the 2013/14 season within it as one of his tactical favourites.

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Now, Michael, you've written the definitive history of the Premier League, The Mixer.

Gerrard

Steven Gerrard

The autobiography contained interesting details about Brendan Rodgers' methods for improving Gerrard's game, specifically regarding head movement and scanning the pitch.

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And I was reading... I think Stephen Gerrard's autobiography was very interesting about how Rodgers did this because general players don't really like thinking about the opposition too much throughout the week.

Lionel Messi (Real Bios)

Marie Morreale

Luis revealed he had just written a young adult book about Lionel Messi's arrival in the US, expressing excitement about it while promoting Inter Miami's strong form.

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That's right, you've also just done a book. I have not a Mutant Chronicles now. Okay. It's a Lionel Messi and his incredible arrival to the US and it's for young adults so yeah very excited.

My Magic Balloon

Kristin L. Duschen

Karl Anka announced the publication of his children's book, "The Magic Balloon", intended for children aged three and up, to be released on World Book Day. He explained his motivation was to promote reading and increase access to books in schools.

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I've written it, it's done, it's at the press, it's there, it's called the Magic Balloon, it'll be out for World Book Day for three and up.

1Q84

Haruki Murakami

While discussing their favorite Premier League managers, one of the podcasters mentioned that he had read all of Haruki Murakami's books, and particularly enjoyed "1Q84".

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he's read all of the Murakami books and a while sheep could chase is just my favourite novel so I'd like to have a glass of wine and talk to him about Murakami books. Not Norwegian wood I don't like Norwegian wood.

England

Daniel Storey

Daniel Storey, the author of this book, joined the podcast to discuss the England-Spain final and his expectations. He felt that the English team would be better for the experience of the final, having previously felt the pressure of playing at Wembley.

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One man who's going to be watching the game in Berlin is the author of England the Official History, our big friend Daniel Storey.

Va-Va-Voom

Tom Williams

Tom Williams literally wrote the book about France and the structure of French football. It is out right now.

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va va voom it's out right now.

Das Reboot

It was mentioned in the context of the German football team, but no further details were provided about the book.

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Raphael Honigstein is the Athletics German football correspondent and the author of Das Reboot.

Iberia Chronicles

Karan Tejwani

The podcast host mentions interviewing Nuno Gomes about the 2000 Euro tournament for a book he was writing on Portuguese football history.

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I remember writing a book about Portuguese football history.

One Night in Turin

Pete Davies

The podcast recommends digging out a copy of this book to see how Bobby Robson's England team fared in Italia 90 after a disappointing Euro 88 tournament.

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You might want to dig out a copy of One Night in Turin to see how that went