When was an England versus Germany match scheduled for the anniversary of Hitler's birthday?
Which is the only club to have scored & conceded 100 goals in a season?
Did you know that Bobby Moore's middle name was Chelsea?
Who was the last person to score on his début for England
- but never play for his country again?
Can you name the 12 players to have won the league title with two different clubs?
The answers to all these questions, & a thousand more besides, can be found
- where else?
- in End to End Stuff: The Essential Football Book. With 66 chapters (there wasn't room for 1966) covering everything from balls to caps, blunders & coincidences, strips, club songs & even the weather, Les Scott tells the history of the game through a winning combination of anecdotes, facts, "es & statistics.
Which two players scored hat-tricks in Arsenal's 6-1 Premiership win against Southampton in 2003?
Who said: ' If we play like that every week, we'll achieve some level of consistency'?
When were league games first played on a Sunday?
What was Chris Waddle's job before he became a professional footballer?
And did you hear about the Scottish centre-forward who received a live lamb as a bonus for scoring a goal, but was too sheepish to butcher it?
With sections devoted to the history of domestic league & cup competitions, as well as major European & international trophies (not to mention the unwritten laws of football, what happened to Tunji Banjo, & why 3, 964 is the World Cup's magic number), End to End Stuff is a treasure trove of information. This is a football reference book like no other
- informative, revealing, fun, & ideal for resolving those pub arguments...