Field of Dreams
100 Years of Wembley in 100 Matches
$47.13
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
21 June 2023
Summary
100 years of Wembley Stadium told through 100 matches.
The 1923 FA Cup final – also known as the White Horse final – was the first football match played at the British Empire Exhibition Stadium. Although best remembered for its vast, well-beyond-capacity crowd, which had to be marshalled by a policeman atop a white horse, that afternoon marked the opening chapter of the long and eventful history of the stadium soon to be known simply as Wemble…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781398518544 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1398518549 |
| Author: | Nige Tassell |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 21 June 2023 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
‘Brilliant’ – Adrian Chiles
‘An absolute cracker. If you buy one football book this year make it this one… A brilliant, brililant book’ – Paul Ross * TalkSport *
‘Beautifully written and adeptly researched, this book is both a celebration of, and fitting tribute to, England’s national stadium in both its incarnations’ * Pitch *
Nige Tassell
Nige Tassell writes about sport and popular culture. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, GQ, Esquire, FourFourTwo, The Blizzard, and When Saturday Comes, among others. His previous books include the non-league football classic The Bottom Corner, Three Weeks, Eight Seconds, Boot Sale, Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid, and And It’s a Beautiful Day.
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