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librarianonparade's review
4.0
This book is immense. It was really hard-going, not because it wasn't interesting, but because it was so amazingly comprehensive. It really does cover the complete global history of football, right from way back when man first kicked something round, right up to the present day, covering every continent, every competition, and damn near every team. It's exhaustive. One of its major virtues is that it doesn't take football out geopolitical context, as so many sports histories tend to. Football has played an important part in the history and politics of many countries, and to ignore football's influence on those countries and vice versa is to ignore an important part of the history of the sport. So I'd say this book is a must for anyone interested in history. But be warned, it'll take you a while to plough through it!
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