- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Century (5 Jun 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1846053811
- ISBN-13: 978-1846053818
- Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 1.6 x 19.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 144,264 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Alternative Football Dictionary
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To celebrate winning the FA Cup by wearing its lid as a hat - the smell inside a Ford Fiesta carrying five overweight England fans back to Lincolnshire - the nagging feeling of resentment when you let a four-year-old score a goal past you in the garden - the lovely velvety bag the cup draw balls are kept in - every football fan has seen or known these things. But who has the words to describe them? Wouldn't football be more fun if there was a word for surreptitiously timing a pre-match minute's silence, just to see if it's accurate? Or for the feeling of frustration that the half of the league table you catch sight of on TV is never the half with your team in?Shouldn't there be a verb that means: to reduce a 2-0 deficit to 2-1 in injury time, grab the ball out of the net and run back to the half-way line with it in order to get the game restarted as quickly as possible, despite the fact that your actions are completely futile since it's the other team that'll be kicking off again? Yes. There should be. And there is. "Footypedia: The Alternative Football Dictionary" is the hilarious, insightful and essential repository for all those things in football that up 'til now have simply taken too many words to describe. It is the year's funniest, most off-beat and irreverent football book.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Wonderfully funny, Footypedia is a cut above the other jokey reference books and sporting parodies that clutter up bookshops' humour shelves. The words defined are all names of ex-footballers - 'gwyther', 'jago', 'suggett' etc - suggestive of the definitions that follow, which are amusingly droll explanations of recurring traits in football that will be familiar to any fan. (For instance: CROWL (v.) - of supporters, to generously applaud an opposition player in the naive belief that this will persuade him to join your club at some point in the future; OGLEY (n.) - look of confusion on the faces of fans being shown on the big screen as they try to work out where the camera is and whether they should wave towards that or the screen itself.)
The book I think it most resembles is 'The Meaning Of Liff' by John Lloyd and Douglas Adams, and it stands up well to the comparison, especially considering the author is confined to a single subject. In fact even non-football fans might find much to amuse them here. (It's notable too that Maier - who is a co-writer on the ITV show 'Harry Hill's TV Burp' - manages to avoid gratuitous crudity in pursuit of easy laughs.) And like all the best comedy writing, this made me smile again when I dipped into it a second time.
The book I think it most resembles is 'The Meaning Of Liff' by John Lloyd and Douglas Adams, and it stands up well to the comparison, especially considering the author is confined to a single subject. In fact even non-football fans might find much to amuse them here. (It's notable too that Maier - who is a co-writer on the ITV show 'Harry Hill's TV Burp' - manages to avoid gratuitous crudity in pursuit of easy laughs.) And like all the best comedy writing, this made me smile again when I dipped into it a second time.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Should provide chuckles for any football who needs something to read after too many low-fibre, dodgy pies at away games.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you're short of an idea for a present for a football-mad Dad, husband, son, then this is it. Maier has clearly spent his life watching, playing and dreaming about the beautiful game. And what he has produced is a rich and endlessly varied reference work which the committed football fan can open at random then chuckle with recognition as he/she reads of an experience he has had at the park, in the pub, at the match or during the car journey home. Essential reading for the downstairs loo.
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The traits in the description of the words are great and knowledgeable. however, the words themselves in most cases do not make sense or relate to the description. Read more
Published 14 months ago by nick4brum
He shoots, he scores, he runs around with his head up his jumper!
This handy, shorts-pocket sized footy dictionary can be whipped out at a moment's notice and make you the hero of any match day. Read more
Published on 8 May 2009 by Mr. S. Berry
Brilliant
Using this book i can actually talk throughout a match without being shouted at by the other half - i nearly know what i am talking about. very very funny!!!
Published on 12 Nov 2008 by S. Newland
A Brilliant Book
It's clear how much Daniel Maier loves football - there is no way you could have identified so many hilarious elements of footballing minutiae without living and breathing the... Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2008 by A. Dawson
Stuck for something to take into the toilet?
Going to the lavatory always makes me think of Footypedia. An essential, brilliant and pointless book.
Published on 5 Sep 2008 by Emma Clarke
Splendid!
If a goalless draw with Torquay led you to an obsession that involved midweek away trips in January to a Swansea ground whose location you are not entirely certain of then this is... Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2008 by Brunton Park - theatre of dreams
SPLENDID BOOK!
The funny book is a minefield, but Dan "Daniel" Maier has avoided having his comedy torso severed. Footypedia takes the long-abandoned format of the comedy dictionary and welds... Read more
Published on 12 Jun 2008 by DAVID QUANTICK
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