50 YEARS OF FOOTBALL IN FOCUS

Britain's beautiful game in pictures.

Football is the international language. The Beautiful Game evokes passion on the scale of religious fanaticism, and this book oozes the essence of football club loyalty and hero worship, captures and replays breathtaking and memorable goals, witnesses dastardly fouls and controversial send-offs. Archive photographs present a gallery of the game’s best-loved players – the heroes and the anti-heroes – and iconic managers, and the fervour of their adoring fans. These are the elements that transport diehard fans on a ticket to Planet Football for those precious 90 minutes.

FOOTBALL IN FOCUS is a fascinating, quirky, idiosyncratic and intimate snapshot of the past 50 years of British soccer, presented in more than 250 images snapped by some of Europe’s foremost photographers, and selected from the Offside Sports Photography collection by a leading sports photographer.