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At £14-99 for over 500 pages plus 32 pages of pics this is an excellent football history of a ground which - like it or loathe it - is a big part of the Scottish sporting psyche. Glen Isherwood has done a marvellous job - minor criticisms notwithstanding. (www.scottishleague.net )
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The definitive masterwork on what was the world’s most famous football stadium. All 386 of the big matches – internationals and FA and League Cup finals and replays etc from the very first ‘White Horse’ final of 1923 to the World Cup final of 1966 and the final defeat by Germany in 2000 – have a report in this ultimate reference book as well as the teams, scorers and attendance while the teams and attendances from all the other games - schoolboy internationals, lesser cup finals – have details only. A full list of clubs and their records, plus all the League players who played underneath the Twin Towers is also included in the book. Find out fascinating facts like the name of the Welsh schoolboy goalkeeper who damaged his ribs trying to save a bullet shot from one Bobby Charlton. There is also a chapter on other occasions at the stadium - the Horse of the Year show, American football games etc.
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More insightful than "Motty",
By N Mackwood (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wembley: The Complete Record 1923-2000 (Paperback)
In these days of pointless autobiographies by twenty-somethings and other football publications which fail to live up to their marketing hype, this is a book which makes a refreshing change - an offering which "does exactly what it says on the tin".
As you would expect, every game ever played at (the original) Wembley Stadium is catalogued and summarised. But what really makes this book stand up is the way that the match reports are enriched by countless statistical observations and interesting cross-references to other games - giving you much more than just the events of the day in question. For example, Isherwood points out that when second-division Southampton beat Man Utd 1-0 in the 1976 FA Cup Final, the respective league positions of the two clubs were exactly the same as those of Sunderland and Leeds three years earlier; whose final had an identical outcome. Whether it was an omen or not, you don't get insight like that from "Motty". And on top of that, the indexes at the back which list the aggregated statistics of all Wembley appearances - i.e. played, won, drawn, lost, goals scored etc. - by each club and even the appearances by each player, ensure that the book's claim to being "Wembley - The Complete Record" is by no means an overstatement. Come the next Cup Final day or England home game, dedicated fans, football trivia buffs, pub quiz aficionados and professional commentators alike will reach for it to look up noteworthy historical facts and comparisons with previous occasions.
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This review is from: Wembley: The Complete Record 1923-2000 (Paperback)
Is there anything you ever wanted to know about football at Wembley? If so, this book will probably tell you the answer. Famous players who've played there, who's been sent-off there, all levels of games from full internationals and FA Cup finals to the Middlesex County Cup - this book has everything.
Not a bedside book - more a book that is capable of being dipped into and out of regularly - it should be considered the definitive work on Wembley stadium 1923-2000.
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