A quirky collection of true stories from the stranger side of the Beautiful Game, including a one-man team, freaky weather conditions, ludicrous scorelines and all manner of off-pitch shenanigans.
'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.
Word count: 45,000 words
| ISBN: | 9781910232866 |
| Publication date: | 11th February 2016 |
| Author: | Andrew Ward |
| Publisher: | Portico an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 252 pages |
| Genres: |
History of sport Association football (Soccer) Sociology: sport and leisure Sporting events and management Reportage, journalism or collected columns Humour collections and anthologies Gift Books |
A quirky collection of true stories from the stranger side of the Beautiful Game, including a one-man team, freaky weather conditions, ludicrous scorelines and all manner of off-pitch shenanigans.'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.
Football's Strangest Matches features in the following genres: History of sport, Association football (Soccer), Sociology: sport and leisure, Sporting events and management, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Humour collections and anthologies, Gift Books
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Football's Strangest Matches was written by Andrew Ward and published by Portico an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Football's Strangest Matches has 252 pages