I'm distraught! i can't find my Kenneth Wolstenholme's World of Soccer annual that I've had since I was ten; those nasty football police must have seized it.
He was only the match commentator for the '66 World Cup final ( cant remember who won it) who produced a series of excellent annuals entitled 'Book of world soccer'. How come he didn't realise it was supposed to be called football? ;-)
Goes back to my original point mate. The English themselves called it Soccer at that time. This was an attempt (albeit an unsuccessful one) to bring that term back into contemporary parlance. Unfortunately people saw it as an attempt to bring in something new rather than reintroducing something that was always there up until relatively recently. But its over now mate. Time to let it go. We live to fight another day.
And from the early 60's I had several editions of Charles Buchan's FOOTBALL Annual as well as his FOOTBALL Monthly magazine...
Like a moth to a flame! I was waiting for you to turn up you rascal! You're right about Buchan's book Sooper because it IS football. And we should always recognise that. In the same way rugby and all the rest are too. But our unique code has a name that the rest of them can never touch and it shouldn't be just cast out to the wilderness by this generation. But ITS OVER!!! The people have spoken! My friends, let it rest now!
