Description
The third edition of this book of facts and feats covering Association Football is another completely revised version containing new features and updated information concerning the game in Britain, Europe and the rest of the world. Fully illustrated throughout, it has 16 pages of colour which include team groups of the eight finalists in the European Championship.
CONTENTS INCLUDE
· Complete record of the European Championship, including results of all matches in the competitions since its inception as the Nations Cup
· The rivalry in statistics between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur and the two Sheffield clubs United and Wednesday
· A chart illustrating the attendance records of each of the 92 Football League clubs
· A fully revised and updated record of all British and Republic of Ireland clubs in Europe with results and goalscorers for individual matches
· Detailed results of the South American Championship and other leading competitions of other continents
· A completely new A-Z of factual oddities embracing all Football League and Scottish League clubs
· An analysis of European League and Cup statistics
Woven into the, facts and feats are more unusual stories:
· Which was the club coach that literally collapsed after a cup-tie?
· Who was the striker who went to the wedding but had no time to change out of his football strip?
· Which Football League club’s name is impossible to find on any map?
· Who was the player who was sent off just as he was about to take a penalty?
· When did the Football League almost have to start a season with one club missing?
· Who was the Wembley ‘veteran’ though he was still only aged 18?
· Which club was allowed to travel free to a cup-tie because it was hard up?
· which Football League club escaped relegation after being bottom of the table at Easter?
Jack Rollin has been a soccer journalist for more than a quarter of a century. He writes regularly for the Sunday Telegraph, is Editor of Rothmans Football Yearbook and contributes to Radio Times.
This third edition was published in 1980.
Hardcover. 249 pages. In good preloved condition.