Heyday Of The Football Annual
The Independent''s Best Sports Book of the Year, 2015
Christmas Day 1959 and legions of schoolboys up and down the country feverishly unwrapped the very first Topical Times Football Book. On the cover Bobby Charlton smacked a leather ball out of a pillar-box red background and, although this wasn''t the first yearbook, it heralded the golden age of the Christmas football annual. As the sixties prog...
The Independent''s Best Sports Book of the Year, 2015
Christmas Day 1959 and legions of schoolboys up and down the country feverishly unwrapped the very first Topical Times Football Book. On the cover Bobby Charlton smacked a leather ball out of a pillar-box red background and, although this wasn''t the first yearbook, it heralded the golden age of the Christmas football annual. As the sixties prog...
