The Complete Book of Football - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903635160 ISBN 13: 9781903635162

Publisher: Hayden Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

Telling the whole story of the game, "The Complete Book of Football", offers a one-stop source for everything you want to know about the world's greatest game. Beginning with the origins of the game, this comprehensive, readable and highly illustrated book, examines the history, the rules, the stars of bygone eras and of the modern game, the great clubs, every footballing nation and all the competitions that make it such an enduring and world-wide phenomenon. "The Complete Book of Football" covers in detail all of the world's football competitions at international and club level - with every FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship covered in detail, including many unusually detailed statistical sidebars and player ratings for the great finals. The great players of the game, modern and historical, are described with individual biographies. There are sections devoted to the great clubs and great stadiums of the world and with a short history of each of the countries that play the game, the book also concludes with a list of historic winners of each of the countries' domestic league and cup winners.

It is richly illustrated with over 550 photographs, sourced internationally, and a variety of specially commissioned graphics, formations and charts.

About this title

About the Author

A freelance magazine editor, journalist and author, Chris Hunt has written about music, football and film for over 20 years. He has traveled all over the world writing about football. His book World Cup Stories: The History Of The FIFA World Cup was published in 2006 to accompany a BBC TV series. His experiences in Japan for the World Cup in 2002 were documented in the BBC TV program Beckham For Breakfast, and his journeys around the globe following the England football team were featured in his weekly newspaper columns. Spending eight years at Emap as the Managing Editor of Match, he transformed the title into the UK s biggest selling football magazine. During his editorship he also launched fortnightly sister title Sported and was voted Emap s Editor Of The Year. He has also produced Premiership preview supplements for The Sun newspaper and was the editor of The Official Wayne Rooney Annual 2007. For three years he was also the Editor of The Match Of The Day Annual, and for 18 months he had a contract to run the official Tottenham Hotspur club magazine. In 2009 he worked with Umbro, helping the British sportswear company by officially documenting the development of the new England football kit. Now a regular contributor to FourFourTwo, he was also editor of special editions of Q, Mojo, Uncut and NME covering subjects as diverse as U2, The Beatles, Kurt Cobain, mod and punk rock. Chris has missed very few games played by the England football team in the last ten years and as a hobby, in his spare time, runs a record label called Tangerine Records.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hayden Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903635160
• ISBN 13: 9781903635162
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Hunt Chris