Books by Andrew Downie

The 1970 World Cup is widely regarded as the greatest ever staged, with more goals per game than any World Cup since. Using brand new interviews alongside painstaking archival research, Andrew Downie charts each stage of the tournament, from the preparations to the final, telling a host of remarkable stories in the players' own words.

The first full biography of Socrates, the maverick and revolutionary genius of Brazilian football, authorised by his family