Author(s): Graham (EDT) Sharpe

Sports & Outdoors

'500 Strangest Football Stories' reaches way back to the early days of the game to introduce you to characters of a bygone era who played football whilst carrying umbrellas and used their moustaches to indicate their feelings.

"500 Strangest Football Stories" reaches way back to the early days of the game to introduce you to characters of a bygone era who played football whilst carrying umbrellas and used their moustaches to indicate their feelings; takes you abroad to discover the Spanish son who takes his deceased Dad to matches - in a makeshift urn; the Italian match which sparked a revolution, and comes bang up to date with details of the Premiership player who 'killed off' both of his grandmothers in a desperate attempt to provide an excuse for missing a game!