Nige Tassell

About The Author

Nige Tassell writes about sport and popular culture. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, GQ, Esquire, FourFourTwo, The Blizzard and When Saturday Comes among others, and his previous books include non-league football classic The Bottom Corner, Three Weeks, Eight Seconds, Boot Sale, Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid and And It's a Beautiful Day. 

Books by Nige Tassell

Field of Dreams

100 Years of Wembley in 100 Matches

By Nige Tassell
100 years of Wembley Stadium told through 100 matches.

Hundreds of thousands of fans, 5,000 were on the pitch, and a horse called Billy. That was the scene for the inauspicious first football match to be played at the British Empire Exhibition Stadium back in 1923, soon to be know...
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The Hard Yards

A Season in the Championship, England's Toughest League

By Nige Tassell
‘Gus Poyet declared it to be the toughest league in England. Neil Warnock went further, believing it to be the tightest division in Europe. Norwich boss Daniel Farke went further still: “The Championship, without any doubt, is the toughest league in the world.”’
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