Roddy Doyle`s Dublin-based account of the Republic of Ireland`s triumphant journey through Italia `90 is one of the pieces in this anthology of football writing. The spectrum of international, Premier League, Scottish and lower division football is covered - from life on the road with Leeds in the early 1970s, through boardroom shenanigans at Oxford in the `80s, to the world of a Watford ballboy. Nick Hornby writes on Cambridge`s worst season ever, Harry Pearson watches Middlesbrough fail to achieve promotion, D.J. Taylor rejoices at Carrow Road and Giles Smith considers his 1973/4 Chelsea programme collection.