A Lifetime in Football by Charles Buchan

No Saturday would be complete for soccer enthusiasts without Charles Buchan’s pre-match confidences and then his post-mortem on the results. This B.B.C. feature, his reporting for the News Chronicle and the editing of his own football magazine occupy a large part of his time. But somehow and fortunately for us he has also found time to write his life-story. Football is in his blood and as a boy of eighteen he was playing for Woolwich Arsenal. Little did he know that fourteen years and a world war later he
would return to Arsenal to skipper them at Wembley in the Cup Final, after one of the
strangest transfer deals ever put through! First with Sunderland, then with Arsenal,
Buchan was one of the most cultured inside forwards England has ever produced. Now, in his book, he makes you understand exactly what it is like to play for a first-class League club week after week, season after season you hear what the players talk about on the field and in the dressing rooms, you learn the truth of their relations with club managers and F .A. officials. Charles Buchan’s A Lifetime in Football traces the development of football from a game with a purely regional appeal to a world-wide sport with an entertainment value second to none, and we do not hesitate to recommend it as the most colourful, the most intriguing, the frankest book on soccer you will have read for years!