555 Football Facts To Wow Your Mates!

A brilliantly funny and interesting guide to all things football, packed with facts and stories - perfect for young football fans gripped by World Cup 2014 fever!

Les Scott is a journalist, writer and broadcaster who has collaborated on successful autobiographies with sportsmen such as Stanley Matthews, Jimmy Greaves and Tommy Docherty, as well as working for national and regional newspapers and in television, film, theatre and radio.

Which football trophy has three handles? 
When was a match stopped because there was a solar eclipse? 
Which very famous ex-West Ham player's middle name is Chelsea? 
 
The answers to these questions and many more can be found in this funny, fascinating book. 
 
You might think you know football, but this book will turn you into the ultimate fan. Packed full of stuff on players, matches, positions and all the major competitions, it really does contain everything you could ever wish to know about your favourite sport.

Les Scott

The Essential Cricket Book

Never before has the whole world of cricket been collected in one, really quite large volume. 
 
Les Scott has collected a lifetime of anecdotes, records, quotes and cuttings to make The Essential Cricket Book. With a century of sections detailing everything from balls and slips to pavilions, umpires and teas; all the Test-playing nations, first-class counties as well as minor counties and clubs, plus universities; tournaments from the Ashes through the old John Player League to the Sheffield Shield (not to mention the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash); bizarre dismissals and of course LBWs, all the great games and characters of cricket are brought to life. 
 
It's all here: the first player to wear a helmet, the first man to attempt a reverse sweep, the games when camels (or mackerels) stopped play, the batsmen given out 'absent, thought lost on the Tube' and 'retired, suffering from measles', or simply the last England bowler to take a wicket with the first ball of a Test Match.

Les Scott

Books by Les Scott

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