Don't Mention the Score
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Don't Mention the Score: A Masochist's History of England's National Football Team

Don't Mention the Score: A Masochist's History of England's National Football Team


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Seldom has the gap between national expectation and actual achievement been so wide as in the case of England's hapless football team..."Don't Mention the Score" is the tragic-comic story of how one small nation tried and failed to dominate world football. Littered with fouls, sendings-off, and more than a handful of off-the-ball incidents, "Don't Mention the Score" is a hilarious and often exasperating journey through England's 135-year history of footballing underachievement. It features a cast of cheating Argentinians, phenomenally boring but metronomically reliable Germans, and dreamily gifted Brazilians - all of them itching to hand out a technical masterclass in one-touch football to the recreation-ground clodhoppers of Olde Englande...In November 1872 England played Scotland in Glasgow in the world's first official international football match. The game ended in a 0-0 draw. Home internationals excepted, England remained haughtily aloof from international football for decades. When they finally deigned to compete in a World Cup they were stuffed one-nil by ...the USA.Four years later, in a match described by one England player as 'like playing people from Outer Space', they were beaten 6-3 by Hungary. In 1966 a Soviet linesman who'd had it in for the Hun ever since he copped a bullet at Stalingrad took pity on England and helped them win the World Cup. But since then it has been downhill all the way. In the rumbustious style of his bestselling "Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps", Simon Briggs charts England football's rare highs and all-too-frequent lows. Embellished with some 75 black-and-white photographs, and incorporating more than 100 of the wittiest and most wounding quotations about footballers past and present, "Don't Mention the Score" is the perfect gift for any football fan, from eighteen to eighty.

Table of Contents:
Introduction. Section 1 Age of the Amateur: The Double-Barrelled Shooter; Hammered by the Scots; The Glory that was Corinth; Twilight of the Snobs; They Came from Central Europe. Section 2 Not-so-splendid Isolation: Don't Mention the War; Worst of British; Continental Drifters; They Might Have Been Giants. Section 3 World in Motion: Shock of Ages; The Hungarian Conquest; Broken Dreams; A Poisoned Chalice. Section 4 Forty Years of Hurt: Method Turns to Madness; Born to Run; Penance of the Pirates; Tears of a Clown; Golden Balls; The Sven Deadly Sins; The Wally with the Brolly. Index & Acknowledgements.

About the Author :
Simon Briggs is the author of Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps. He works for the Daily Telegraph, which kindly allows him to make a living out of his hobbies - cricket and rock music. He grew up in Oxford, in a house full of academics, then studied history at Cambridge, but no-one has ever discovered which period

Review :
- irreverent, often hilarious - Sunday Times. Simon Briggs's lightness of touch, intrinsic humour and gift for the telling detail make this an engaging read - Sunday Telegraph. splendid - a jovially airy trawl through the exasperating life of England's national team - Frank Keating, Guardian. witty but also deals with issues - Sunday Telegraph. A light-hearted but highly intelligent history of the English football team - Sunday Express. - a rip-roaring look at the trials and tribulations of the England football team - Sport. - a good read - Every chapter is filled with authoritative, well-researched and humorous accounts - Irish Examiner.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781847244093
  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Quercus Publishing
  • Height: 198 mm
  • Sub Title: A Masochist's History of England's National Football Team
  • ISBN-10: 1847244092
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 132 mm


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