Triumphant Teams
From winning Wanderers and awesome Arsenal, through to lethal Leeds and majestic Manchester United, TRIUMPHANTTEAMS tackles the star squads from every decade of English football history.
Meet each team's main men, sample their silky skills and terrible tackling, see how on the ball you are in a quick-fire quiz and pick up a trophy or two with our Foul Football awards!
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Some football teams are foul. ...
Illustrations (c) Mike Phillips, 2001
Other teams are so brilliant that they make all the rest cry, "Foul! They don't give us a chance!"
It's triumphant teams like these that you'll be reading about in this book. One team from every decade of English football history. Teams such as:
- the single most triumphant Liverpool team
- the doubly triumphant Tottenham Hotspur team
- the trebly triumphant Manchester United team
Every triumphant team mentioned in this book won gallons of games, of course, but they didn't all go about it in the same way. Each had their own style, as you'll discover
- like the team who were so triumphant that they liked to be photographed with their trophies before they'd even won them
- like the team who only became triumphant once they'd stopped packing their side with fat footballers
- like the team who had money thrown at them by opposing fans not because they were so triumphant but because they were so unpopular ...
And, as always, we'll be triumphantly conferring our very own Foul Football awards on those who laid a brick or two on a team's road to stunning success.
Awards like ...
It's a triumph of a book!
