Football's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of football

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; The Zulu Warriors (1879); The Crossbar Protest (1888); The Mystery Game (1889); The One-Man Team (1891); The Trusted Goalkeeper (1892); The Game of Three Halves (1894); The Four-Minute Game (1894); Strike Tactics in the Dressing-Room (1894); Not One Shot at Goal (1898); Completed -- Fifteen Weeks Later (1898-9); The Penalty-Kicking Elephant (late 1890s); A Tempestuous Semi-Final (1899); Soccer Sickness (1902); Fishermen Versus Firemen (1905); Under the Scorching Sun (1906); Not According to the Rules (1908); The Surprise Local Derby (1908).;From bestselling author Andrew Ward. Over a century's worth of fascinating football stories and tales. The perfect gift for the football fanatic in your family! The world's favourite sport has certainly given us its fair share of strange moments. Author Andrew Ward has trawled the sports pages of history to create Football's Strangest Matches, a fascinating collection of bizarre-yet-true tales from more than a century of the beautiful game. From Blackburn Rovers' one- man team to Wilfred Minter's seven-goal haul in which he still ended up on the losing side, there are goals and gaffes gal.