This Week's Top 10 Sports Books

1 European Football Fan's Handbook - The Rough Guide, Peterjon Cresswell and Simon Evans (Rough Guides, paperback, pounds 14.99)

2 Dickie Bird - My Autobiography, Dickie Bird and Keith Lodge (Hodder and Stoughton, hardback, pounds 17.99)

3 Left Foot in the Grave? A View from the Bottom of the Football League, Garry Nelson (Collins Willow, hardback, pounds 14.99)

4 Official NFL 1997 Record and Fact Book, National Football League (Workman, paperback, pounds 14.99)

5 Best Seat in the House - A Basketball Memoir, Spike Lee (Fourth Estate, paperback, pounds 9.99)

6 Racing Post Jumpers to Follow 1997/98, edited by Nicholas Godfrey (Racing Post, paperback pounds 7.99)

7 Dicks Out 2 - You're Not Singing Anymore, Rob Merrills (Red Card Publishing, paperback, pounds 9.99)

8 The Lions in South Africa, Miles Harrison (Aurum, hardback, pounds 14.99)

9 Kicker Fussball Almanac '98, Karl-Heinz Heimann and Karl-Heinz Jens (Copress Verlag Munchen, paperback, pounds 9.95)

10 The Sunday Times Illustrated History of 20th Century Sport, Chris Nawrat, Steve Hutchings and Greg Struthers (Hamlyn, hardback, pounds 25)

Chart compiled by Sportspages, 94-96 Charing Cross Road, London (0171 240 9604) and St Ann's Square, Manchester (0161 832 8530)