Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #123485 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-27
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 194 pages

The Independent, May 8, 2004
This splendid little book...contains countless gems of football minutiae and tales.

Shoot Monthly, July 2004
Some real trivia nuggets from the man with the best memory in football.

Metro Newspapers, May 26, 2004
...should come wrapped in an anorak rather than a dustjacket.

Customer Reviews

A national treasure
I love Motty and if you do as well, you'll love this book. It's a great summertime read: entertaining, educational, sometimes funny. This book celebrates football with a wealth of short anecdotes, facts, stories, or statistics. It doesn't favor or slight any particular UK side, but celebrates them all. The player and manager quotes (Terry Venables: "Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored.") at the end had me laughing out loud.

Thus, I was saddened to read that Adam Ward, who colloborated with John Motson on this book, lost his life in a car wreck. He seems like the sort of guy you'd want to hang out with at the pub. He will be missed but certainly, this book stands tribute to his love of football.

Best Footy Trivia Book out.
If your a footy mad fan, then you have to get this book just to amaze you with even more information and craze!

If your wondering who holds the longest ever free kick get this book, im sure it would be in there? By the Way its Chelsea......it apparrently went out of the stadium and landed on a freight train and went all the way down the track........

Well if you want to catch out your friends with some amazing questions, press the add to basket button and amaze your friends.......

Like they say, you learn something every day!

My God, a decent book about football!
I was given this as a present, being the most un-footie-like person in the world, but I gave it a go and, hey, it's a fantastic book!!! It's not just a bunch of dry statistics - goal averages and percentages; it's a colourful, well-rounded slant on everything to do with the beatiful game. There's a section on hideous haircuts, a Subbuteo factfile and enough commentary malapropisms to make David Coleman sound intelligent. Still don't understand the offside rule, though. *LOL*

More books like this, please!