Here is a selection of books which have either informed or inspired World Cup College articles.
Football/Sport
Brilliant Orange – David Winner
Inverting the Pyramid – Jonathan Wilson
The Meaning of Sport – Simon Barnes
Why England Lose – Simon Kuper & Stefan Syzmanski
Football and Chess – Adam Wells
Leftfield – Graeme Le Saux
What Sport Tells Us About Life – Ed Smith
Soccer and Philosophy - Ted Richards (ed)
Moneyball – Michael Lewis
Academic
Straw Dogs – John Gray
Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges
The Myth of Sisyhpus – Albert Camus
Sartre – Iris Murdoch
The Re-Emergence of Emergence – Philip Clayton & Paul Davies (eds)
The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
Mind Time – Benjamin Libet
The Blank Slate – Steven Pinker
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind – Julian Jaynes
Rethinking Social Theory – Roger Sibeon
Understanding Organizations – Charles Handy
Critical Mass – Philip Ball
The Fabric of Reality – David Deutsch
Hyperspace – Michio Kaku
You appear to have missed ‘Sociology: themes and perspectives’ by the great Haralambos off the list? Shome mishtake, shurely?
Which is the book that stated 400 squadrillion has enough zeroes to fill a medium-sized black hole?
It was probably Graeme Le Saux’s, he’s an expert in maths and physics.
Ashley Le Sansom – My Story