Our view of football will never be the same again? Written by a world-respected football historian, this football unique gift title reveals the global game?s greatest myths and untruths.bbrbri?Takes a wrecking ball to many of the myths and assumptions about football that usually pass unchallenged? iJohn Motsonbbrbrbi?A must-read?i These Football TimesbbrbrbiA feast of contrary and controversial assertions which make you question so much you assume to be true about the game.? i Guy MowbraybbrbrFootball has been completely mythologized and many of the things football fans think they know about football and its history turn out not to be true. We want to believe the myths, and so they become accepted. So much football writing is not properly researched, and so the myths get repeated, again and again and again.br brWritten by Kevin Moore, the founding director of the National Football Museum (the world?s leading football museum), this thoroughly researched and authoritative book debunks 50 of the greatest myths surrounding football. Backed up by the highest level of acadic research yet written in an accessible style, the book explores the truth behind many accepted myths. For example, did you know:brbr? The Germans took football to Brazil, not the Englishbr? Rugby and not football could quite easily have been the world?s leading sportbr? There are gay professional players - and always have been! br? Football hooliganism did not begin in Englandbr? Shirt colours do make a difference br? Cambridge and not Sheffield is the home of the oldest football club in the worldbr? Arsenal should not be in the Prier League? they cheated to be therebr? The Dynamo Kiev team were not executed after beating a German SS team in 1941br? England did not win the World Cup fairly in 1966 ? but not in the way you think!