1001 Football Moments is a must have book for all football lovers. Before you say it, no this isn’t just another one of those books you do really do without paying £25 for. This beats your annual football encyclopaedia hands down, this doesn’t document everything about football, it documents the greatest things about football, guaranteeing an interesting and enjoyable read.
The book is littered with great pieces of photography which helps keep the pages well-presented and easy on the eye. You might think you know everything there is to know about football but I can bet you right now that you don’t. You will be amazed when reading this book at the things you know, you don’t know and what you thought you knew. It lets you relive great moments that may have even touched you personally, avoiding all the boring statistics so common in football books nowadays. Yes it deals with facts, but it has picked out the best 1001 facts instead of cramming a shed load of information into 350 pages, leaving you to read through and pick the best parts.
It is without a doubt the first book of its kind, featuring over 1200 photographs and covering the establishment of official rules in 1863 through to the global phenomenon it is today, this stunning illustrated volume charts the history of football through its defining moments and shouldn’t go unread.
Expertly selected, 1001 of football’s most important moments are beautifully retold by a collection of leading football writers. All of the great events, players and famous moments are here, as are many sinister, surprising and lesser-known events that have equally shaped and contributed to football’s story.
Uniquely devised to allow the reader to follow narrative topics within the 1001 entries, Football Moments is a thematic journey in which the greats of the game line-up alongside the giant killers, jokers and villains.
From dazzling moments of skill and the legendary teams through to the darker events of match-fixing, corruption and crowd violence, 1001 Football Moments tells of the game’s famous matches, pivotal developments, incredible incidents, despairing tragedies, prominent personalities and intriguing politics - and is the ultimate celebration of the beautiful game.
Maybe £25 seems a bit steep, but when you realise what you get for that then you start to think it’s a bargain. Especially for younger folk like myself you will not believe some of the things that has happened during the existence of this game we call football, it’s intriguing and very hard to put down once you’ve started reading it.
Go on, what you waiting for?
Book courtesy of Lydia Drukarz at Carlton Books.
www.carltonbooks.co.uk
James Henderson |
