Author – Jonathan Wilson
Genre – Football, Sports, History, Journalism
Source - Print
Rating - 5
Read - September 2015
There are some books for which the one-minute book review is insufficient - not because you are full of things to say and you cannot do it concisely (that is YOUR problem, reviewer), but because there are so many things to write about.
There are so many things to write about in this book. To the commoner, Cricket is the game of detailed tactics, and football is the game of hit and run. They cannot be further from the truth. Cricket is essentially a game of skill. Football is essentially the game of strategy. And this strategy, which took the last hundred years to develop, is detailed in this book - in crisp, clear, precise, journalistic language and quite phenomenal depth of research. @jonawils is quite a special football journalist, as any regular reader of The Blizzard and The Guardian (and even ESPNCricinfo) will attest - and this will, I think, remain his pièce de résistance.
And you, readers of this blog, know that I sometimes recommend sports books to non-sports fans. This is not one of those books. But if you are a lover of the beautiful game, you have to have this book.
