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Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Inventions
Who invented the bicycle kick?
Who recorded the first celebratory football song?
Who invented 4-4-2?
Who was the first attacking full-back?
Which goalie first wore gloves?
Who invented the league?
Who invented the long throw?
Why do football matches last ninety minutes?
Who first parked the bus?
Who was the first playmaker?
Who was the first sweeper-keeper?
Who invented the stepover?
Who invented Total Football?
Oddities
Do you always have to wear boots to play football?
Who was the first player to wear coloured boots?
What was the most brutal game of football ever?
Who were the most careless owners of a trophy?
What is the strangest criteria to decide which clubs enter a cup?
What was the earliest kick-off time for a professional game?
Can elephants take penalties?
Do footballers have small feet?
Why did Independiente hold a minute’s silence for Neil Armstrong?
What was the oddest method to separate teams level on points?
What formation did North Korea play in 1966?
What is an Olympic goal?
Why can’t you score an own goal from a direct free-kick?
Who is the greatest penalty saver in football history?
Which teams won the league and was relegated next season?
What is the strangest sending off?
What are the oddest reasons for stopping play?
What is football’s strangest transfer deal?
Which is the most unlikely club to break a transfer record?
Has a league-winning team ever been unable to defend their title?
Why did Venezia fans start booing white players?
Stars
Who was Britain’s first black footballer?
Who was the greatest diver of all time?
How two-footed are two-footed players?
Who was the first foreign footballer in the English game?
Who was football’s first global superstar?
Who has scored most goals in the history of the game?
Has any footballer ever succeeded in gridiron?
Who scored the most headers in a match?
Who had the hardest shot in football?
Why didn’t hat-trick Hurst get the 1966 World Cup final matchball?
Is there any real advantage in having a low centre of gravity?
Which player has represented the most national teams?
Which player has been capped in the most positions?
Have outfield players worn No 1?
Which player has had the most elaborate pre-match ritual?
Who was the first Scotsman to score in a World Cup finals?
Who is the most travelled player?
Has any footballer ever played two matches on the same day?
Did any one player win the World Cup single handedly?
Gaffers
Who was the first coach to discover the importance of diet?
Who was the best-dressed coach?
Who led the most dysfunctional World Cup campaign ever?
Who was England’s first manager?
Who has coached the most national teams?
Who was the scariest manager?
Who had the shortest managerial career?
Who was the youngest manager to win a league championship?
Records
Which side holds the record for away wins in a single season?
What was the greatest comeback?
Who made the most consecutive league appearances?
Which side were the most convincing league champions?
Which is the best defensive performance in a major league?
What was the most entertaining league season ever?
Which was the first team to win an FA Cup with no English players?
Who scored the fastest ever goal?
When did teams first agree to fix a match?
Which team has won the most games on the trot?
Which team has endured the worst goalscoring drought?
Which player has had the longest goalscoring streak?
Does home advantage really exist?
What is the longest move that has led to a goal?
Who took the first penalty?
What match has prompted the most red cards?
Which is the greatest relegation escape act of all-time?
What is the lowest number of penalties a team has scored in a shoot-out and still won?
Has any single club supplied an entire international team?
What was the longest amount of stoppage time added to a game?
What is the furthest a team has travelled for a domestic cup tie?
Culture
Can footballers act and can actors play football?
Who was the first team to wear advertising on their shirts?
Who was the only footballer to sing on the same bill as The Beatles?
Do bogey teams really exist?
Why do Brazil wear yellow shirts with green trim and blue shorts?
What is the world’s longest-running football comic?
Who was the greatest ever comic strip football hero?
Why are corner flags so important?
What exactly is a derby?
How effective is drinking as a motivational aid?
What is the point of dugouts?
When was the first fanzine?
Who coined game of two halves, early doors and sick as a parrot?
At which ground are visitors least likely to be insulted?
When was the first football magazine published?
What is the lowest crowd for a top-flight game?
Which footballers are best at acquiring native accents?
What was the top pop hit by a footballer?
Why were seven dead cats buried in a stadium in Buenos Aires?
How common is it for footballers to smoke?
What’s behind those Stadiums of Light?
Why are Italian fans called tifosi?
Who was the first football TV commentator?
Was the soccer war about soccer?
Acknowledgements
Index
About the Authors
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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