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The Perfect 10 - Richard Williams

 
Description: ISBN 0571216358 / Genre: Sports / Hobbies / Games / Author: Richard Williams / Edition: illustrated edition / Hardcover / 256 Pages / ... more
The Perfect 10 - Richard Williams ... Book is published 2006-05-04 by Faber and Faber

Newest Review: ... such as Puskas, Platini, Zidane, Bergkamp, Pele and Maradona but it also covers such names as Rivera and Mazzola the ... more

 ... under-rated Enzo Francescoli and Roberto Baggio. The book is a work of really wonderful journalism, in some peoples hands this would simply be a work of stats and history, but this brings the idea of these number 10's into context, they are artistic, fantasy players, who with one pass or touch can simply change the course of a game, but not just any game, the greatest games, those which only a true world class player could transform. Williams talks about these players as artists, his writing is rich in description and ...more

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Premium Review The Perfect 10 - Richard Williams: A fantastic football book, about fantastic footballers (414 words)
by - written on 14/06/09 (Very useful, 19 readings)
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The Perfect 10 is a book about football, so anyone expecting a grounded appraisal of the female form or a story about the history of numeracy should turn to another review now. The book is written by Richard Williams an interesting and informative Guardian journalist, he decided that in football the number 10 is generally the star of the team, the creator and the artistic star of the team and decided to make a list of his all-time greatest number 10's, the book holds few real surprises covering the usual suspects such as Puskas, Platini, Zidane, Bergkamp, Pele and Maradona but it also covers such names as Rivera and Mazzola the under-rated Enzo Francescoli ...  Read the complete review

 

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