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If Only - An Alternative History of the Beautiful Game (Paperback)
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If Only - An Alternative History of the Beautiful Game (Paperback)
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List price R324
Loot Price R269
Discovery Miles 2 690
You Save R55 (17%)
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If Only: An Alternative History of the Beautiful Game is a fiercely
original counterfactual history of football. It is often tempting
to believe in the grand sweep of history; to conclude that the
triumphs of football's greatest teams were simply inevitable. The
truth, however, is that history can turn on what appear, at first
glance, to be infinitesimally small events. Behind all those
triumphs lie the countless disappointments of teams that were
denied glory by a cruel bounce, the width of a crossbar or a
dubious refereeing decision. Challenging the perception that the
outcome of great clashes could never have been any different to
what they were, If Only reflects on what our football history could
have been, what it might have been and, in some cases, what it
probably should have been. Boldly turning football history on its
head, If Only imagines a world in which Scotland win the first-ever
World Cup, Derby County are champions of Europe and 1966 isn't the
only year that England win anything.
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