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- Wren & Rook
- Wren & Rook
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 is the author of the Unbelievable Football series (winner of the 2020 Children's Sports Book of the Year) and the Johnny Ball: Football Genius series, as well as the co-author of the bestselling Ultimate Football Heroes and Football GOAT series. He has also worked with Lioness Beth Mead on her children's book, Roar, which won the 2024 Children's Sports Book of the Year award. To date, his books have sold over 3 million copies worldwide.
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