The Penalty Kick: The Story of a Gamechanger

by Robert McCrum

A rousing history of the penalty kick and its introduction in English football by a famed British writer & editor.

Football, in the 1880s, was a rough and dangerous game. To address the abhorrent state of the sport, William McCrum, an amateur Irish goalkeeper and the author's great-grandfather, proposed the penalty kick, a new and drastic sanction introduced to the game in 1891. For over a hundred years, this extraordinary phenomenon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912559579
• ISBN13: 9781912559572
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.5" x 7.3"