Product Description

The daddy of all football yearbooks never fails to deliver with its 1056 fact-filled pages. The 38th edition brings you unrivalled coverage of the Champions League and UEFA Cup as well as qualifying-round statistics on the road to Euro 2008 - England's first campaign under new manager Steve McClaren. A new feature this year lists English League champions in detail from 1888 to 2007. Also including the compulsory season-by-season players' directory with an invaluable A-Z of all entries, match facts and figures for English and Scottish league matches and English, Scottish and international fixtures for the 2007-08 season, this is the 'first reference book you should turn to'.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71134 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1056 pages

Review
'1,000 pages of geeky bliss' -- Zoo 'The first reference book you should turn to' -- Daily Telegraph '[An] annual factfest...its breadth of coverage is unmatched' -- Birmingham Post 'Continues to be football's bible' -- Winger 'Unrivalled stats and information *****' -- FourFourTwo 'Don't leave home without it. Ever' -- Hotspur magazine

Synopsis
The daddy of all football yearbooks never fails to deliver with its 1056 fact-filled pages. The 38th edition brings you unrivalled coverage of the Champions League and UEFA Cup as well as qualifying-round statistics on the road to Euro 2008 - England's first campaign under new manager Steve McClaren. A new feature this year lists English League champions in detail from 1888 to 2007. Also including the compulsory season-by-season players' directory with an invaluable A-Z of all entries, match facts and figures for English and Scottish league matches and English, Scottish and international fixtures for the 2007-08 season, this is the 'first reference book you should turn to'.

About the Author
Jack Rollin was soccer columnist for the Sunday Telegraph" for 21 years and has worked on all but three editions of SKY SPORTS (ROTHMANS) FOOTBALL YEARBOOK as well as editing PLAYFAIR FOOTBALL ANNUAL with his daughter, Glenda Rollin. Glenda has been co-editor of the Yearbook since 1995.

Customer Reviews

The One and Only
If you are a football fan interested in stats then buy it. If not, then don't but buy it for someone you know who is.

The Bargain Football Supporters Bible
A comprehensive statistic filled book. As stated above, the 1056 pages are crammed with so much information on both domestic and international football. All Champions League results, Domestic Cup Competition results from last season are here.

For every devoted UK team fan, it includes, all English teams from the Premiership, Championship, Divisons 1 and 2 with the Blue Square Premier also included. It features all Scottish teams in all 4 divisions. Team notes include history of managers, ground capacity and the like plus all current players if you include the stop press pages, with complete history of their career and all 2006-7 seasons results with goal scorers.

There are sections on Welsh and Northern Irish football and non-league tables for last season are listed in abundance.

The book is essential if you want to check up on the player your chairman/manager has just invested in.

All the league fixtures for 2006-7 begin at page 1033.

With Amazon currently offering the book at a huge 40% discount, would recommend it without hesitation.