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The "Daily Telegraph" Football Chronicle

by Norman Barrett (Author), John Ley (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd
Published: 01 Aug 2001

ISBN 10: 1842223771
ISBN 13: 9781842223772

Author Bio
NORMAN BARRETT has been writing on football and other sports for more than twenty years. He planned and edited the 3,000-page partwork The Game in the late 1960s, and has produced several books on soccer, including adult and children's works co-written with Kevin Keegan, Don Howe and Lawrie McMenemy. In the 1980s, he originated and edited the Telegraph Football Year Book, and he is a regular contributor to Rothmons Football Yearbook. Norman, who lives and works in Edgware, is a prolific writer of children's information books. John Ley is a sports correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. He livesin Hertfordshire.