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As a huge football supporter (I refuse to say soccer) -- this book is very disappointing. Don't read it.

This book was written in 1994, and reading it nearly 20 years later -- it is grossly outdated (even with the updates in 2006).

I had to put the book down 30 pages in because it was so dire. I skimmed through other sections just to see if it was just as bad -- and it was. The writing is uninteresting and the stories are tiresome. Celtic is Catholic and Rangers are Protestant...you don't say? Berlusconi is a brazen AC Milan president and politician...really? Holland and Germany had a bitter football rivalry in the 1970s due to wounds from 30 years earlier...who would have thunk it?

The book is essentially this...random, disconnected stories of our author's travel throughout the world as he rehashes football narratives that true supporters already know -- and doesn't provide anything new to them. All these 'stories' you can read about in 5-10 mins on wikipedia in essentially the same type of prose.

If this book was a famous football moment, I'd relate it to Roberto Baggio's missed penalty kick (and hairdo) in the 1994 World Cup. Just utter dribble.