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In November 2019, the England national football team play their 1000th and 1001st matches. From their involvement in the world's first ever recognised international - in front of 3,000 spectators in Glasgow, wearing knickerbockers and playing with eight forwards - to the globally feted multi-millionaires now playing internationals around the world, there have been 147 years of highs, lows and entertainment for followers up and down the country, and through the ages. This three-part work is the first ever to bring together not only the basic facts of each of England's 1001 matches - line-ups, scorers, venues, referees, managers, attendances and so on - but also a specific match report for every match. All the famous moments from England's most celebrated matches are included (Hurst's hat-trick, Moore's tackle, Pearce's penalty celebration, Kane's golden boot), but given equal billing are all of England's less remembered matches, which have often produced plenty of drama and fascinating incidents of their own. Whether you want to relive some matches from your youth, or read about matches played long before you were born, by players from every section of society (such as Oxbridge-educated amateurs who went on to become Members of Parliament) when the world of football was unrecognisable from that of today, this book will provide hours of enjoyment. With accurately researched facts on all matches, this is a unique celebration of an institution which continues to be an intrinsic part of the life of a nation.
28 x 21 cms, softback, 354 + 296 + 289 pages.
2019
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