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Seldom has the gap between national expectation & actual achievement been so wide as in the case of England's hapless football team... is the tragicomic story of how one small nation tried & failed to dominate world football. Littered with red cards, missed penalties, & more than a handful of off-the-ball incidents, this is a hilarious & often exasperating journey through England's 136-year history of footballing underachievement. In the rumbustious style of his bestselling, Simon Briggs charts England football's rare highs & all-too-frequent lows. Embellished with some 75 black-&-white photographs, & incorporating more than 100 of the wittiest & most wounding"ations about England & England footballers past & present, is the perfect gift for any football fan, from eighteen to eighty.

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