Product Description

Formerly the Rothmans Football Yearbook, the 35th edition of this bestselling football yearbook is packed with statistical information about British football. Includes full statistics for all England and Scottish League clubs during the 2003/2004 season.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #227071 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 1056 pages

About the Author
Jack Rollin was soccer columnist for the Sunday Telegraph for 21 years and has worked on all but three editions of Rothmans (Sky Sports) 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 Premiership of football facts!
Over a thousand pages, each housing hundreds of facts. Forget buying any other pretend yearbooks, endorsed by Motty and the like, this one grows each year and with some of the stats you can just sense the quality and research that has gone into it. With so many facts you can excuse a slight error within if you look hard enough just to prove the authors are human after all (!). It will stay by your side all season and will be especially useful in a pub quiz, especially with the comprehensive Euro 2004 section. One down point, which hasn't been in the last few editions either, is the exclusion of the team photos, but it still incorporates the odd image here and there.

Price up ,quality down
The Sky Sports yearbook ( formerly Rothmans ) is a must for all football buffs and fans alike. Packed with information, stats and many interesting features it is a book I look forward to buying before the start of a new season.

I have every copy since 1986 - 87 season, every year the price goes up. I've never minded this, as it is an exceptional read.

However ,last year without looking for ,I found several mistakes, which I thought were lazily researched. I wrote to Mr Jack Rollins ( the auther )to bring this to his attention. Several months later I recieved a letter from Mr Rollins, explaining that his Scottish correspondent ( 90 % of my complaints were about mistakes made about Scottish football )would be in touch. True enough I have had several conversations with the correspondent. In fact for this years book, I helped him with several bits of information he had wrong.

This years book is even worse for errors. This time I found several, again without looking for them. One example is Boltons Florent Lavilles date of birth is given as 7 / 8 / 1983. This would make him 10 years old when he made his debut for previous club Lyon! There are a lot more, much worse than this.

I find the coverage of Scottish football a big let down. Every player from all 96 English teams has their stats noted. However the 12 SPL teams are given 2 pages each. Surely it wouldn't be to much effort to give stats for these players to?

Over the whole The year book is quality. However I'm becoming dissilusioned with the amount of mistakes cropping up.Mistakes can't be helped but some of them I found were just plain sloppy. It boasts great things but it isn't the book it once was.

The footballing bible
This book is great the amount of times I have pulled this book out to win an arguement is incredible it has information on every player in the english football leagues and information about all the teams too all the players who have ever played for england, ireland, scotland, wales and nothern ireland full and u21 leagues and so much more. Remember there is like 1000 pages in the book you have to buy it!