Beautiful Games — Dennis Hamley

This is a book intended for young readers, bringing together eight stories about football, intreague, murder, and excitement. There's more to football than two halves In these eight stories there are great games in the present and the past - and even a hint of one or two in the future. There's triumph, disaster - and a few football ghosts as well. Who said it's a funny old game? Whoever he was, he was right. Seven of these stories have been published before and each has a postscript showing how the author got the idea for it. The eighth was specially written for this book and has an introduction instead.