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Title: THE RANDOM HISTORY OF FOOTBALL
ACCOMPLISHED SWEEPERS & TRICKY WINGERS
Format: Hardback

List price: £7.99


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ISBN 10: 1853759368
ISBN 13: 9781853759369
Publisher: CARLTON BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 1 August, 2015
Pages: 128
Description: Featuring a compilation of match reports, correspondence and reminiscences from pundits, commentators, players, officials and spectators who weren't there but should have been, this book tells the story of football game.
Synopsis: This is the story of football as it's never been told before. A cock-eyed compilation of match reports, correspondence and reminiscences from pundits, commentators, players, officials and spectators who weren't there but should have been: a Victorian public school headmaster bemoans the advent of soccer; PC Scory records the altercations at the White Horse Cup Final in his notebook; the Russian linesman has second thoughts about Geoff Hurst's equaliser; God berates the Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires about Maradona's claims of divine intervention; David Beckham's hairdresser provides David Seaman with coiffeur tips in the aftermath of the England's World Cup 2002 exit. The nutmegs, the tantrums, the penalty-shoot-outs that have provided the ubiquitous topic of male conversation for generations, are entertainingly evoked. If Accomplished Sweepers & Tricky Wingers boasted the stories were in bite-sized chunks, Luis Suarez would buy every copy.
Illustrations: 100 colour & B-W illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Prion Books Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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