Footy Dogs: The Dogs of Australian Rules Football (Craig McGill & Susan Elliott)

Footy Dogs: The Dogs of Australian Rules Football

Craig McGill & Susan Elliott

Blurb: Behind every great Aussie Rules player, you're likely to find that a good dog helped him succeed. Footy Dogs features over 100 players from all sixteen AFL teams and over 210 stunning photos of their loyal woofers. Along the way, the mutts and purebreds are interspersed with short essays by Ron Barassi, Trisha Broadbridge, Sam Kekovich, Michael Millett, Lynda Carroll, Diego Maradogga and many more.

Find out which player's dog wears pink nail polish, who peed on the photographer and discover the identity of the player who guzzled the church's altar wine.

Footy Dogs is a photographic journal of stunning photos and great yarns - created all for the love of dogs and footy.

ISBN: 0958085633 (Hardback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: A Giant Dog Book

Pages: 280 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Official website of the book

2. Buy from QBD

3. How to find AFL players and coaches

4. Wikipedia page for Aussie Rules

5. Review of the book

Carn the Crows (Lorraine Wilson, Paul Harvey, David O'Brien)

Carn the Crows

Lorraine Wilson

Illustrated by Paul Harvey & David O'Brien

Blurb: I barrack for the Crows. I think all of South Australia barracks for the Crows. 

ISBN: 1863917640 (Paperback)

Year: 1995

Publisher: Reed

Pages: 24 (Fiction)

Links

1. Author's official site

2. Google books page

3. Official website of the Crows

4. List of other books in the series

5. Article on the author

Open Season (Jason Akermanis with Gary Smart)

Open Season

Jason Akermanis with Gary Smart

Blurb: Say what you like about Jason Akermanis - legend, troublemaker, showman, show-off - there's no denying that he's made an impression in his 16 years as an AFL star player. Now, after more than 325 games, three premierships and a Brownlow Medal, the curtain has come down on his extraordinary career.

No longer restrained by contractual obligations and free to speak at last, Aker reveals a no-holds-barred look at a stellar sporting career, including behind-the-scenes details of his falling out with Leigh Matthews, his move from the Brisbane Lions to the Western Bulldogs and his explosive final season, which was cut short amid very public controversy. Interwoven through the highs and lows of an outstanding professional life is his personal story of finding and reconciling with his biological father - a married man with a family of his own who lived next door to Aker's childhood home.

Told with trademark honesty and passion, this tell-all memoir is a must-have for all footy fans.

ISBN: 9781740668248 (Hardback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Hardie Grant Books

Pages: 296 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Blog on the book

2. Buy from the ABC shop

3. Review of the book on a footy forum

4. Google books page

5. Publisher's page for the book

The Footy Almanac 2010 (John Harms & Paul Daffey)

The Footy Almanac 2010

Edited by John Harms and Paul Daffey

Blurb: When the final siren for the season has sounded, what do you do for the next six months? Don't worry, help is at hand. You can relive the season, game by game, in The Footy Almanac 2010.

Whether your team has been rebuilding, peaking or reinventing itself with yet another five-year plan, this book has something for everyone. You won't find the well-work cliches trotted out in the press - these are the voices of the punters on terraces and in pubs and lounge rooms, as passionate as they are reflective about the teams they love. Leave the earnest analysis to the experts and sit back and enjoy the rollercoaster ride that is the lot of the true AFL footy fan.

ISBN: 9780670075072 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Malarkey Publications

Pages: 514 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Publisher's page for the book

2. Interview with the editor of the book

3. Buy from QBD

4. Buy from the Book Depository

5. Official Website for the book series

The Footy Almanac 2009 (John Harms & Paul Daffey)

The Footy Almanac 2009

Edited by John Harms and Paul Daffey

Blurb: Your favourite fraternity of footy nuts has done it again, delivering the latest game-by-game account of the 2009 AFL season.

A collector's item for any die-hard fan, this is hand-on-heart, heart-in-mouth, edge-of-seat stuff from the dedicated Almanackers, who have studiously recorded their one-eyed accounts of all the wins, losses and draws. These are real footy reports from real footy fans, just like you.

With match-deciding kicks after the siren, and upsets, speccies and miracle goals galore, The Footy Almanac 2009 is footy beyond the stats and facts from fair dinkum footy scribes.

ISBN: 9780670074075 (Paperback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Malarkey Publications

Pages: 518 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Official page for the book series

2. Publishers page for the book

3. Newspaper article in relation to the book

4. Buy from Readings

5. Official AFL Website

Drop Punts and Torpedoes: The best ever footy quotes (Suzi Petkovski)

Drop Punts and Torpedoes: The best ever footy quotes

Suzi Petkovski

Blurb: 'It's been a big week in football!' Classic footy quotes from the glory days of the VFL right up to the 2007 AFL Grand Final.'

Talking football is the ultimate participant sport. Most of us will never fly up there like Cazaly on the sacred turf of the MCG, but the footy industry provides endless fascination and speculation through commentary, interviews and chatter. Whether it's a withering blast from a coach, a sharp witticism from a commentator or a player's verbal clanger, football language can be as colourful, chaotic, brutal and uniquely Australian as the game itself.

This classic collection of quotes from players, coaches, commentators and fans is perfect for the diehard follower of the Australian game.

ISBN: 9781741667226 (Paperback)

Year: 2007

Publisher: Random House

Pages: 216 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Random House

2. How to kick a football further

3. AFL website

4. Books by Suzi Petkovski

5. Buy online