Purnell S New Encyclopedia Of Association Football

The Daily Telegraph Football Chronicle provides an authoritative and compelling account of the history of the world's most popular sport from the origins of the modern game in the 1860s to the present day. Presented in a page-by-page, chronological format and written from the British perspective, it includes articles on all the notable football stories of the twentieth century, together with key soccer statistics, memorable quotes and the rest of the football news in brief. A special spread is allocated to each World Cup tournament and the year-by-year reportage is also interspersed with special feature spreads on the leading characters and milestone events of the history of football.