Soccer Scandals – When the Beautiful Game Turned Ugly

Soccer Scandals – When the Beautiful Game Turned UglyIt was Pel who popularised the idea of football as 'the Beautiful Game' and so it is. But football also has its uglier side. As far back as the Edwardian era matches were 'fixed' to benefit gamblers, or to help clubs desperately in need of points to win promotion or to avoid relegation. There have been matches so brutal that on one occasion it was necessary for the BBC to precede televised highlights with a warning to viewers that what they were about

one of the greatest English goalkeepers of all time who played his whole career for Manchester City

who has reached the very heights of the beautiful game and cemented his place as one of the greatest players of all time

Hutch is the funny yet inspiring story of how the seemingly unattainable can be achieved by unwavering

This hilarious memoir also reveals why a second-hand Lada changed John's life

We have limited quantities of these two Polish-language magazine-style previews of the second half of the 2015/2016 season so are selling them together as a single order item

Size: 126mm x 196mm – 304 pages

Saturday Afternoon Fever is Stelling's moving and fascinating memoir: a love letter to the game that has shaped and defined him

Includes interviews with Rafa Benitez

A statistical review of the Spanish Segunda Division during the period from 1939 to 1950 which contains a round-by-round review of each season including line-ups and statistics for each game alongside a final league table and results grid

not to mention the nemesis of both

but you choose whether to live under it

This 14th edition is a statistical yearbook of both domestic and international football in North America