The Worst Of Football: From Brawls To Bribery, The Ugly Side Of The Beautiful Game (Worst Of Sport)
£3.00 GBP
Author :Nigel Henderson
Condition : New
Binding : Hard-Back-Square Size
Pages : 332
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
Language : English
Publication Year : 2008
Graham Taylor, Paul Robinson, Scott Carson look away now... This new edition of The Worst of Football includes a bonus chapter on Euro Worsts: featuring some of the worst thrashings, tantrums, goalkeeping errors, brawls, and substitutions all from the European Championships.
Never sent off, never booked, never even, according to legend, spoken to by a referee, Tom Finney was the archetypal Gentleman Footballer.
The Worst Of Football proves he's in the minority as it brings together the worst collection of footballing malevolence, misadventure, and madness ever assembled: ranging from the player sent off within 20 seconds of the start of a Christmas Day match to the one who was smuggled out of the ground in disguise.
And of course, it's not just the players! There are fans who tried to set light on a manager's wife; the chairman-cum-general election candidate who tried to bribe the opposition to help his campaign; and the referee who stormed off in the middle of a game.
The Worst Of Football has got it all and proves that the 'beautiful game' is, and pretty much always has been, more war dance than working man's ballet.
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Author :Nigel Henderson
Condition : New
Binding : Hard-Back-Square Size
Pages : 332
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
Language : English
Publication Year : 2008
Graham Taylor, Paul Robinson, Scott Carson look away now... This new edition of The Worst of Football includes a bonus chapter on Euro Worsts: featuring some of the worst thrashings, tantrums, goalkeeping errors, brawls, and substitutions all from the European Championships.
Never sent off, never booked, never even, according to legend, spoken to by a referee, Tom Finney was the archetypal Gentleman Footballer.
The Worst Of Football proves he's in the minority as it brings together the worst collection of footballing malevolence, misadventure, and madness ever assembled: ranging from the player sent off within 20 seconds of the start of a Christmas Day match to the one who was smuggled out of the ground in disguise.
And of course, it's not just the players! There are fans who tried to set light on a manager's wife; the chairman-cum-general election candidate who tried to bribe the opposition to help his campaign; and the referee who stormed off in the middle of a game.
The Worst Of Football has got it all and proves that the 'beautiful game' is, and pretty much always has been, more war dance than working man's ballet.
