Football's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but True Stories from Over a Century of Football (Strangest series)

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; The Zulu Warriors (1879); The Crossbar Protest (1888); The Mystery Game (1889); The One-Man Team (1891); The Trusted Goalkeeper (1892); The Game of Three Halves (1894); The Four-Minute Game (1894); Strike Tactics in the Dressing-Room (1894); Not One Shot at Goal (1898); Completed -- Fifteen Weeks Later (1898-9); The Penalty-Kicking Elephant (late 1890s); A Tempestuous Semi-Final (1899); Soccer Sickness (1902); Fishermen Versus Firemen (1905); Under the Scorching Sun (1906); Not According to the Rules (1908); The Surprise Local Derby (1908).;From bestselling author Andrew Ward. Over a century's worth of fascinating football stories and tales. The perfect gift for the football fanatic in your family! The world's favourite sport has certainly given us its fair share of strange moments. Author Andrew Ward has trawled the sports pages of history to create Football's Strangest Matches, a fascinating collection of bizarre-yet-true tales from more than a century of the beautiful game. From Blackburn Rovers' one- man team to Wilfred Minter's seven-goal haul in which he still ended up on the losing side, there are goals and gaffes gal. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction The Zulu Warriors (1879) The Crossbar Protest (1888) The Mystery Game (1889) The One-Man Team (1891) The Trusted Goalkeeper (1892) The Game of Three Halves (1894) The Four-Minute Game (1894) Strike Tactics in the Dressing-Room (1894) Not One Shot at Goal (1898) Completed -- Fifteen Weeks Later (1898-9) The Penalty-Kicking Elephant (late 1890s) A Tempestuous Semi-Final (1899) Soccer Sickness (1902) Fishermen Versus Firemen (1905) Under the Scorching Sun (1906) Not According to the Rules (1908) The Surprise Local Derby (1908). The Circus Game (1910)The 'Tonypandemonium' Game (1910) The Election Campaign Game (1910) Death of a Referee (1912) Battle at Half-Time (1912) The Team Awarded Four Penalties (1913) The War Game (1914) One-Armed Men Versus Women (1917) Soccer in Gas Masks (1917-18) Wilfred Minter's Goalscoring Feat (1922) Experimenting with the Rules (1925) Strikers Against Police (1926) Amateurs Versus Professionals (1926) Introducing the Eight-Square Game (1927) Eight on a Debut (1930) Exposing Chelsea's Defence (1931) The Fastest Individual Goals (1931) The Life or Death Game (1931). Six in Twenty-One Minutes (1932)The Game with Two Referees (1935) 'Avalanche at Aston' (1935) Ten Goals at His First Attempt (1936) Taking It at Walking Pace (1937) A Matter of Class (1938) Freakish and Goalful (1941) Farce in the Fog (1945) The 203-Minute Game (1946) When Two Players Died (1948) Daylight Robbery (1949) 'Football's Most Amazing Experiment' (1949) The Invisible Game (1950) Two Teams, One Manager (1952) Record Score (1952) The 44-Minute Game (1956) Second-Half Transformation (1957) The Triplicated Cup-Tie (1958) Giant-Killing Glory (1959). The Missing Fuses (1959)'Fantastic, Incredible, Amazing' (1960) The Disallowed Double Hat-Trick (1961) The Nightmare Day-Trip (1961) Farewell in a Blizzard (1962) A Sports Scandal (1962) All in the Imagination (1963) The Abandoned International (1963) The Game in Two Grounds (1965) A Pair of Broken Legs (1966) The Popular North Koreans (1966) The Fantastic Championship Decider (1967) A Touch of Mayhem (1967) The Referee's Winning Goal (1968) The Soccer War (1969) South American Free-for-All (1971) The Vital Disputed Goal (1971) The High-Scorers' Cup Final (1971). The Endless Cup-Tie (1971)Referee Who Forgot the Rules (1971) Sixteen Minutes of Disbelief (1972) Crowd Power (1974) Under the Spell (1975) The 28-Penalty Shoot-Out (1975) Ovation for a Streaker (1975) The One-Scorer Four-Goal Draw (1976) The Game that Never Was (1978) Warring Team-Mates (1979) The Falkland Islands Games (1970s) A Legal Precedent (1980) The 'Escape to Victory' Game (1980) Behind Closed Doors (1980) The Broken Goalpost (1981) Settled Out of Court (1981) Team on Strike (1983) The Missing 78 Seconds (1983) Strange Substitution (1984) The 68-Hour Game (1984). From bestselling author Andrew Ward. Over a century's worth of fascinating football stories and tales. The perfect gift for the football fanatic in your family! The world's favourite sport has certainly given us its fair share of strange moments. Author Andrew Ward has trawled the sports pages of history to create Football's Strangest Matches, a fascinating collection of bizarre-yet-true tales from more than a century of the beautiful game. From Blackburn Rovers' one- man team to Wilfred Minter's seven-goal haul in which he still ended up on the losing side, there are goals and gaffes galore drawn from all levels of the football world, whether high-profile internationals or the lowest tiers of domestic football. This extraordinary book makes a great gift for any football fan, and certainly proves the old adage beloved by football commentators - 'it's a funny old game'... In this fascinating collection of true stories taken frommore than100 years of soccer history, Andrew ward has gathered together the most extrordinary happenings ever to befall asoccer field. They include stories about the game spectators couldn't see: the game that lasted four days; the games between the strikers and the police in 1926 and between Eton College and the unemployed boys; the games of three halves; the game decided by a hypnotist; and the one in which the same player scored all four goalstwo for each side. A delight for all soccer fans, this is also a unique look at the more curious moments of the beautiful sport. A collection of football tales gathered from over a century of the game. These stories range from the bizarre to the tragic.