Whitfield C. BALLS! The Best European Football Nations

Sedbergh Publishing, 2012. — 149 p.An irreverent and informative look at the history of the sixteen teams that took part at the 2012 UEFA European Football Championships in Poland and Ukraine. Discover why England fans are always disappointed. How General Franco made Spain so good at football. How a ginger pube makes you Irish. And why the Italians tolerate match-fixing. It is a journey of more than one hundred years across Europe and the World that takes in the sights of glory, humiliation, politics, war, nationalism, visionaries, parochialism, corruption, gamesmanship, racism, multiculturalism and pies. If you like football, you will love this book. It is complete and utter Balls!