A unique 50th anniversary collection of superlative writing & new football thinking A first-ever oral history of '66 combined with match reports provided by writers from each of the countries England played create a highly original view of the tournament
- how the fans watched the games the stadia the newspaper & TV reporting are each revisited The politics music & fashion of '66 are examined too exploring the forces of fan resistance in England & Germany that have found common cause in opposition to the corporate take over of the game as well as the entirely new ranking system that calculates England's fall & occasional rise from 1966 to 2016 showing who has overtaken England & why