The "Daily Telegraph" Football Years

Offers an account of the history of the sport - football - from the origins of the modern game onwards. This book includes articles on various notable football stories of the 20th century, together with key soccer statistics and memorable quotes.

"The Daily Telegraph Football Years" provides an authoritative and compelling account of the history of the world's most popular sport from the origins of the modern game to the present day. Set out in a page-by-page, chronological format and written from the British perspective, it includes articles on all the notable football stories of the 20th century, together with key soccer statistics and memorable quotes. Special feature spreads are allocated to each major tournament and the year-by-year reportage is also interspersed with special essays on the leading characters and milestone events of the history of football.

The Daily Telegraph Football Years covers the period 1863 to the end of the 2007/08 season, with newspaper-style reports on the football stories that hit the headlines, plus Football Focus features summarizing the rest of the football news, Soccer Soundbites giving memorable football quotes, plus the end of season statistics up to 2007-08, the champions and leading scorers of all the divisions of the Football League and Scottish League, the FA Cup, League Cup, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup winners and the record of British clubs in European competitions.