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- Wren & Rook
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For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Interest age: from c 7 years, Football (Soccer, Association football), General knowledge & trivia (Children's / Teenage), Humour & jokes (Children's / Teenage), Football / soccer (Children's / Teenage)
Discover unbelievable football facts, top trivia, hilarious jokes and quick-fire quizzes all about the world's favourite game! Impress your friends, outsmart your parents and roar with laughter in this brand-new book from bestselling and award-winning author, Matt Oldfield.
The perfect fact-filled book for football lovers - full of unbelievable facts, superstar stats, laugh-out-loud jokes and quick-fire quizzes.
Have you heard of:
- The highest-scoring professional football match, which ended a whopping 149-0?
- The busy-bee footballer who played for both the Welsh national team and Bayern Munich in the same day?
- The joke about the magician who played football? She loved hat-tricks!
- The weirdest footballing phrases?
- The craziest match stats from the game in which every player got sent off?
If not, dive in and encounter the best, the worst, the funniest, the most impressive and the downright strangest trivia from the wonderful world of football. From Haaland and Henderson to Mbappe and Messi, discover something new on every page.
Written by Matt Oldfield, the bestselling author of the Unbelievable Football and Football Heroes series.
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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