Football - Paul May

Each book in the Oxford Reds series is on a real-life subject, with a simple lively text and realistic illustrations (this title also contains photographs). Many are written by well-known children's writers.Did you know that football has been played for hundreds of years? Once it was even banned, because it was too dangerous! Oxford Reds Football contains information on how the great game came about, and how it is played today, across the world, by girls and boys, men and women. It also contains some fantastic statistics and fascinating facts!