Here's a perfect book for the football fanatic in your family and it doesn't matter who they support.
The beautiful game has certainly given us its fair share of strange moments. Author Andrew Ward has trawled the sports pages of history to create Football's Strangest Matches, a fascinating collection of bizarre-yet-true tales from more than a century of the world's most popular sport.
From Blackburn Rovers' one-man team to Wilfred Minter's seven-goal haul in which he still ended up on the losing side, there are goals and gaffes galore drawn from all levels of the football world, whether high-profile internationals or the lowest tiers of domestic football.
This extraordinary book makes a great gift for any football fan, and certainly proves the old adage beloved by football commentators - 'it's a funny old game". After all, football gifts are the obvious choice and really a no-brainer when buying for football fans!
Here's a perfect book for the football fanatic in your family and it doesn't matter who they support.
No one can dispute that the Beautiful Game has provided some of the funniest"es (intentionally or not) in the history of sport - and "The Big Book of Football's Funniest"es" is the most comprehensive collection of these hilarious comic offerings.
Compiled by avid"ation collectors Ian Spragg, Adrian Clarke and Stuart Reeves, The Big Book of Football's Funniest"es is packed with an incredible 1, 500 ridiculous"es from and about some the most famous names in football, including Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, Ian Holloway, Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne and Eric Cantona. Bursting with confused cliches, mangled metaphors, comic cusses and idiotic football insights, this book really is the hilarious last word in funny football"ations.
This funny book makes a great gift for any football fan, and certainly proves the old adage beloved by football commentators - 'it's a funny old game". After all, football gifts are the obvious choice and really a no-brainer when buying for football fans!