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For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Interest age: from c 8 years, General knowledge & trivia (Children's / Teenage), Football / soccer (Children's / Teenage)
The next book in the award-winning and 150,000 copy-bestselling series, Unbelievable Football. Football fans will immerse themselves in 5-minute unbelievable and true football stories from beloved and bestselling author, Matt Oldfield
***Epic true football tales - that only take five-minutes to read!***
This is the next unbeatable book for football-mad kids and reluctant readers in the award-winning series, Unbelievable Football.
Have you heard of...
* The heroic white horse who saved the FA Cup final?
* The World Cup-winning women, who fought for equality - and won!
* The Red Dragons of Wrexham who came roaring back (with a little help from Hollywood)?
* The blundering light-fingered footballer who got sent off - to prison!
* The one-handed hero who helped win the World Cup for Uruguay?
From unlikely football heroes and incredible comebacks to the worst red cards and dirtiest football tricks, this book is packed full of football action, drama and all-out entertainment.
Each five-minute story is the perfect length for reading at breakfast, bedtime, in the car or on the bus. Mega football fans can dip in and out, or have a full match day experience -reading the entire book in the time it would take to watch a football match! Either way, the stage is set for a top-of-the-table classic football story collection.
Matt Oldfield
Matt Oldfield writes the Ultimate Football Heroes and Classic Football Heroes series with his brother Tom. Matt also works with schools and organisations such as The National Literacy Trust and The National Football Museum to deliver football-based literacy workshops. To date, the Ultimate Football Heroes series has sold over 300,000 copies in the UK alone.
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