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The Reduced History of Football

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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 Scorey 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.

Table of Contents:
Includes: Medieval peasants kicking pigs' bladders * Public School playing fields * The Wanderers * Tricky Scottish forwards * The Invincibles * Billy Meredith players' strike * Khaki Cup Final * No-man's land kick-about * White Horse Cup Final * Herbert Chapman's Arsenal * England team do Hitler salute * Dixie Dean scores 60 in a season * Zeppelin casts shadow over Wembley * World War Two * Moscow Dynamo "Say it with Flowers" * Matthews' Cup Final * Magical Magyars come to Wembley * Magical Magyars strike again * United States beat England * Busby Babes * John Charles * Real Madrid at Hampden * England beat Scotland 9-1 * Ramsay's Wingless Wonders * Rattin and the Animals * Russian Linesman/Hurst hat-trick * They Think It's All Over * Bestie - El Beatle * Bobby Moore and the diamond necklace * Bestie - Where did it all go wrong? * Bobby Charlton * Eusebio * Der Kaiser * Pele * Cruyff's turn * Cloughie's Clown * Jim Baxter plays keepie-uppie at Wembley * Arsenal Double - Charlie George prostrate * Jim Montgomery's double save * Tartan Army wrecks Wembley * SuperMac * Harald Schumacher garottes Battiston * Toshack and Keegan * SuperSub * Young Norman Whiteside * Lineker's legs * Gazza's tears * Bend it like Beckham * David Seaman's pony-tail * Maradona and the "Hand of God" *Banks saves from Pele * Lev Yashin - The Man in Black * Total Football * Ajax * Paolo Rossi * Ferguson vs. Wenger * Keegan - "I would just love it!" * Shanks * Cantona's kung-fu kick * Keano's World Cup walk-out * The Real Becks and much, much, more.

About the Author :
Aubrey Ganguly is the editorial director at Future Publishing. He has contributed to numerous magazines such as Esquire, FHM, GQ, and Sports Illustrated. As an editor he has worked on various magazines including United, the official magazine of Manchester United. Justyn Barnes is a former editor of United magazine and now works as a freelance writer, contributing regularly to various titles including FourFourTwo. He is the author of The Little Book of Man Utd. Tony Husband is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in Playboy, Punch, the Spectator, the Sun, and the Times.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781853758263
  • Publisher: Welbeck Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Prion Books Ltd
  • Height: 178 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 1853758264
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 111 mm


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