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Title:
A RANDOM HISTORY OF FOOTBALL
By:
Colin Murray
Format:
Paperback
List price:
£10.99
Our price:
£10.99
ISBN 10:
1409103765
ISBN 13:
9781409103769
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Publisher:
ORION PUBLISHING CO
Pub. date:
2 September, 2010
Pages:
320
Description:
Random occurences that shaped the history of football - an alternative history of the game from loveable broadcaster Colin Murray.
Synopsis:
Random occurences that shaped the history of football - an alternative history of the game from loveable broadcaster Colin Murray. Nowadays a top Premiership football club can spend GBP50 million on a Portuguese pin-up or a legendary Italian goalkeeper, but you cannot take into account the effects of a dodgy takeaway meal, a dropped bottle of aftershave on a goalkeeper's toe, or the fact that your most creative player has to leave town because of a chance drunken encounter with another player's wife. It is these random moments that have shaped football as much as the headline-grabbing Cantona kung fu kick and that Russian linesman in 1966. In this witty alternative history of football you will learn: * Different sizes of football were used in each half of the inaugural World Cup Final of 1930. * Sheffield United almost signed Diego Maradona. * Saddam Hussein changed the result of an Iraq versus Chelsea match. * Bury FC's Robbie the Bobby tops the league of worst-behaved mascots.From the height of international football to the scandal of the Conference league Christmas party that cost far more than a bar-bill, Colin Murray tries his best to make you believe, once more, in football's unpredictability.
Illustrations:
15
Publication:
UK
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Returns:
Non-returnable
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