Angliiskii futbol: vsia istoriia v odnoi knige. Liudi. Fakty. Legendy - Surin S.V.

With this amazing book, the reader will relive the history of football - the way he would experience a history of his kind. After all, if football truly penetrates the soul, it becomes an integral part of personal being, another hidden religion of the Earth - and the book, including this. In the book, football is born - in agony and screams, goes through a carefree childhood, gets professional status, goes to war, husbands, rebels, reforms and finally becomes as we see it today. Even a sophisticated connoisseur, will discover a lot of new things for himself: learns about the pioneers - the Apostles of the game, about forgotten geniuses, about the history of rules, about the fate of great football coaches and about the formation of famous English club brands, and even about the diabolical penetration money to the Olympic movement. The book is thoroughly imbued with humor and irony, and the reader is not afraid to be at the tough memorial games under the walls of Troy, then before the medieval scaffold, where Henry VIII eliminates another unjustified spouse, then at the grandiose stadium in Rome, where people greet the seated Mussolini...