Field of Dreams
100 Years of Wembley in 100 Matches
$24.30
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
17 July 2024
Summary
100 years of Wembley Stadium told through 100 matches.
Hundreds of thousands of fans, 5,000 were on the pitch, and a horse called Billy. That was the scene for the inauspicious first football match to be played at the British Empire Exhibition Stadium back in 1923, soon to be known as Wembley.
More than a century later, Wembley remains the world’s most famous football stadium. Watching your team there is the highlight of a fan’s lifeti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781398518568 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1398518565 |
| Author: | Nige Tassell |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 17 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 296g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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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 *
‘An absolutely cracking read’ – Chris Sutton
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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