- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (6 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140515755
- ISBN-13: 978-0140515756
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15.8 x 4.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 990,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This comprehensive A-Z covers all aspects of the beautiful game, from 'abandoned matches' to 'Wrexham FC' via celebrity fans, mascots, pitch invasions and the Bosman ruling. Every club in the English League and the Scottish League has a separate entry, FIFA, UEFA, the PFA and the Football Supporters Association are covered, and the murkier areas of football such as boardroom politics and match-fixing are explored and explained with When Saturday Comes' inimitable mix of humour and intelligence.
About the Author
When Saturday Comes is a UK-based monthly football magazine covering all aspects of football culture from a fan's perspective. It first appeared as a fanzine in March 1986, and within two years had developed from a bi-monthly, photocopied, hand-stapled production into a monthly magazine with national distribution. The magazine has always aimed to provide a voice for intelligent football supporters, offering both a serious and humorous view of the sport while covering all the topics that fans are likely to talk about, whether serious or trivial.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
This could be titled 'The When Saturday Comes Encyclopaedia of British Football'. Its pages feature detailed entries of each professional English and Scottish League club plus great players and coaches. It also covers at some length hundreds of other aspects of the game including supporters, the media, football songs, famous fans, hooliganism, club colours etc etc.
This book has been written with the usual affectionate yet irreverent style typical of When Saturday Comes and it never fails to be informative, engaging and amusing. This is not a book full of tedious statistics but of insightful precis that sheds new light on subjects that have been covered extensively as well as those that haven't.
For example, the entry on the Pools Panel informs us that it predicts the result correctly 4 times out of 10, that it consists of Gordon Banks, Tony Green and Roger Hunt, and that it meets in a Liverpool solicitor's office every Saturday afternoon. This kind of information is not found in the average football book!
The book is well researched and well written, in particular the entries on the League clubs are excellent. This is not a book for pub quiz bores but for those who want an easy-to-read manual to British football's rich history. Strongly recommended.
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