Here's a perfect book for the football fanatic in your family & 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 & 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, & certainly proves the old adage beloved by football commentators
- 'it's a funny old game". After all, football gifts are the obvious choice & really a no-brainer when buying for football fans!