Football's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but True Stories from Over a Century of Football (Strangest series)

by Andrew Ward

Paperback, 2007

Status

Available

Call number

796

Collection

Publication

Anova Books (2007), Edition: New edition, 320 pages

Description

Over a century's worth of tales from the weirder end of the football pitch 'It's a funny old game'. The world's favourite sport has certainly given us its fair share of strange moments, and this absorbing collection gathers together the best of them, from more than a century of the beautiful game. From Blackburn Rovers' one-man team to Wilfred Minter's seven-goal haul in which he still ended up on the losing side, here are goals and gaffes galore drawn from all levels of the footballing world, whether high-profile internationals or the lowest tiers of domestic football. The stories in this book are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious, and, most importantly, true. Revised, redesigned and updated for a new generation of football fanatics, this book is the perfect gift for the soccer obsessive in your life.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member TheoClarke
Disappointing mishmash of anecdotes recounted in a pedestrian style.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

256 p.; 5.5 inches

ISBN

1861052928 / 9781861052926

Barcode

91100000176705

DDC/MDS

796
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