Our view of football will never be the same again Written by a world-respected football historian, this football unique gift title reveals the global games greatest myths and untruths. Takes a wrecking ball to many of the myths and assumptions about football that usually pass unchallenged John Motson A must-read These Football Times A feast of contrary and controversial assertions which make you question so much you assume to be true about the game. Guy Mowbray Football has been completely mythologized and many of the things football fans think they know about football and its history turn out not to be true. We want to believe the myths, and so they become accepted. So much football writing is not properly researched, and so the myths get repeated, again and again and again. Written by Kevin Moore, the founding director of the National Football Museum (the worlds leading football museum), this thoroughly researched and authoritative book debunks 50 of the greatest myths surrounding football. Backed up by the highest level of academic research yet written in an accessible style, the book explores the truth behind many accepted myths. For example, did you know: The Germans took football to Brazil, not the English Rugby and not football could quite easily have been the worlds leading sport There are gay professional players - and always have been! Football hooliganism did not begin in England Shirt colours do make a difference Cambridge and not Sheffield is the home of the oldest football club in the world Arsenal should not be in the Premier League they cheated to be there The Dynamo Kiev team were not executed after beating a German SS team in 1941 England did not win the World Cup fairly in 1966 but not in the way you think! The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Title: What You Think You Know About Football is Wrong: The Global Game� s Greatest Myths and Untruths
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, London
Publication Date: 2019
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1472955668
ISBN 13: 9781472955661
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good

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Written by a world-respected football historian, this football history unpacks the global game's greatest myths in a charming gift edition.

Football has been completely mythologized: as a result, many of the things football fans think they know about the game and its history turn out not to be true. Written by Kevin Moore, the founding director of the National Football Museum (the world's leading football museum), this thoroughly researched and authoritative book debunks more than 50 of the greatest myths surrounding football. Moore unearths the truth behind many accepted myths, including:

� The Germans took football to Brazil, not the English
� Rugby and not football could quite easily have been the world's leading sport
� There are gay professional players . . . and always have been!
� Goalkeepers should not dive for penalties
� Football hooliganism did not begin in England
� Shirt colors do make a difference
� Cambridge and not Sheffield is the home of the oldest football club in the world
� Arsenal should not be in the Premier League . . . they cheated to be there
� The Dynamo Kiev team were not executed after beating a German SS team in 1941
� England did not win the World Cup fairly in 1966 . . . but not in the way you think!

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Kevin Moore is at the University of Leicester.

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