Cassell Soccer Companion

Who was the Crown Prince of soccer? What was the NASL? How have the rules governing abandonment of matches changed? Which team plays at the Vanden Stock Stadium? When were Accrington Stanley founded? Which team are known as the Dons?

Updated to include coverage of the 1997 season, and with well over 2000 entries, the Cassell Soccer Companion has all the answers. Whether you are a manager, a player, a fan, an armchair expert or a soccer widow, you will be fascinated and intrigued by the book's wealth of informed detail about all aspects of the sport, and entertained by offbeat snippets of information and anecdotes.

Provides a wealth of reference information (club histories, grounds, competitions, players' careers, etc), but also explores, as no other book does, soccer's fascinating sub-culture, with full coverage of nicknames, sayings, extraordinary events, and such remarkable miscellaneous topics as dogs, superstitions, riots and disasters.

Covers the history of association football fromits origins to the present day and includes stories from all around the globe, including the brief history of the NASL, the World Cup, and numerous competitions