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The "Daily Telegraph" Football Chronicle Norman Barrett

The "Daily Telegraph" Football Chronicle By Norman Barrett

The "Daily Telegraph" Football Chronicle by Norman Barrett


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The "Daily Telegraph" Football Chronicle Summary

The "Daily Telegraph" Football Chronicle by Norman Barrett

The Daily Telegraph Football Chronicle provides an authoritative and compelling account of the history of the world's most popular sport from the origins of the modern game in the 1860s to the present day. Presented in a page-by-page, chronological format and written from the British perspective, it includes articles on all the notable football stories of the twentieth century, together with key soccer statistics, memorable quotes and the rest of the football news in brief. A special spread is allocated to each World Cup tournament and the year-by-year reportage is also interspersed with special feature spreads on the leading characters and milestone events of the history of football.

About Norman Barrett

NORMAN BARRETT has been writing on football and other sports for more than twenty years. He planned and edited the 3,000-page partwork The Game in the late 1960s, and has produced several books on soccer, including adult and children's works co-written with Kevin Keegan, Don Howe and Lawrie McMenemy. In the 1980s, he originated and edited the Telegraph Football Year Book, and he is a regular contributor to Rothmons Football Yearbook. Norman, who lives and works in Edgware, is a prolific writer of children's information books. John Ley is a sports correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. He livesin Hertfordshire.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Early Years, 1880s, 1890s, Season-by-season guide beginning with 1899-1900 and continuing up to 2000-2001. Features on every World Cup, Euro 96 and Euro 2000, and contributory features from the Daily Telegraph's top sports writers, such as Henry Winter and Paul Hayward, on The Rise of Professionalism; The First Football Heroes; The Early Development of the Laws of the Game; Football Heroes of the Twenties; The Chapman Era; Football Heroes of the Thirties; Post-War Football Heroes; The Numbers Game - Wingless Wonders and Sweepers; Stars of the Sixties and Seventies; Modern Superstars and The Big Money Game

Additional information

GOR011271855
9781842223772
1842223771
The "Daily Telegraph" Football Chronicle by Norman Barrett
Used - Like New
Hardback
Welbeck Publishing Group
2001-08-01
336
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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