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Day of the Match: A History of Football in 365 Days - Rowan Walker

Description: ISBN 0752226789 / Genre: Sport / Hobby / Games / Author: Rowan Walker, Scott Murray / Hardcover / 388 Pages / Book is published ... more

Day of the Match: A History of Football in 365 Days - Rowan Walker ... 2008-11-07 by Boxtree

Newest Review: ... incidents that mark the history of the beautiful game. All of footballs famous historical events are included - from the ... more

... game played in no-man's-land on Christmas day, 1914, between British and German troops, to England's World Cup win against Germany at Wembley in 1966. As befits the book though the latter is described in an interesting and alternative way - instead of concentrating on the match itself the book tells of the television commentary of the game. And no, not the legendary "they think it's all over..." delivered by Kenneth Wolstenholme for the BBC, but rather the forgotten words uttered by Hugh Johns for ITV. John...more

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Day of the Match: A History of Football in 365 Days - Rowan Walker: A MISCELLANY OF THE BEAUTIFUL GAME (928 words)
by - written on 28/09/09 (Very useful, 74 readings)
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Football books have tended to follow the same rather boring and predictable path; Biographies by twenty year old hotshots who haven't lived a life worth reading about, or washed up ex players looking for the cash a book deal will bring having just gone through messy divorce number four. And if it's not biographies there are stat books aplenty; and while a detailed breakdown of the number of free kicks Hull City enjoyed in the 1968 season is probably very interesting to those who follow the tigers, they hold a very limited appeal to the rest of us. Step forward Scott Murray and Rowan Walker - a couple of writers who I happened to catch talking about their newly written ... Read the complete review

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