What You Think You Know About Football is Wrong
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…
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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 EnglishRugby and not football could quite easily have been the world's leading sportThere are gay professional players . . . and always have beenGoalkeepers should not dive for penaltiesFootball hooliganism did