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Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2010-2011 |  | Authors: Jack Rollin, Glenda Rollin
Publisher: Headline
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 890
Media: Paperback
Pages: 1056
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 2.6
ISBN: 0755361075
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780755361076
ASIN: 0755361075
Publication Date: August 5, 2010
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41st edition of the most reliable and authoritative guide to football at home and abroad
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 Yet another sporting institution ruined by Sky Sports..... September 4, 2010
Mr. P. S. Rapaport (Manchester, England)
The trouble with 'comprehensive and authoritative' guides is that they need to contain facts - i.e. accurate facts - or else they lose their credibility entirely.
According to this book Chelsea were runners-up in the FA Premier League, 2009-10 (see the Chelsea club section, list of honours)! If the editors can't even get that most basic of facts right, how are we supposed to trust them with the several hundred pages of other more obscure facts and figures?
The format, flavour and general appeal of this book was much stronger when it carried Rothmans' name for 30 years. Now it just seems to be another fatuous, over-hyped, commercial enterprise, just like everything else touched by Sky Sports. Yet another sporting institution they have ruined - like test cricket and the great British saturday afternoon of football....
 The Football Bible August 30, 2010
Fitba daft
Yes the Sky Sports Football Yearbook covers the same as previous years, and yes alot of historic information from years gone by, but I can't resist this book as I have every edition since the first edition as Rothmans Football Yearbook covering the 1969/70 season. You cannot possibly expect more info on even the least known footballers even on the website.
Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2010-2011 August 23, 2010
Mr. P. D. Roberts (Edinburgh, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Known to most people of a certain generation as "The Rothmans" the book continues to be an invaluable source of information to football fans everywhere. Jack and Glenda Rollin do a sterling job every year bringing this classic to print and for that reason alone deserve great credit. Yes; - there will always be some quirky errors along the way - ie: Alex McNair in fact has the most league appearances for Celtic not Billy McNeill - but by and large the information is reliable. Still a classic.
Poor Accuracy August 23, 2010
Iron Monkey (UK)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The concept of this book is fantastic: a trove of information containing almost every conceivable statistic from the 2009-10 season. Unfortunately, this is marred by one monumental failing - its accuracy. On page 134, for example, it states that Chelsea were runners up in Premier League in the 2009-2010 season. If the authors cannot get even this correct, it makes you wonder just how many other misprints there are among its 1056 pages. Without confidence in the statistics given in this book, it isn't much good to me at all.
essential reference material August 22, 2010
Mike The Coach
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I use this book in a professional capacity, mainly the Who's Who style section (for those of you that remember that particular, now defunkt, publication, which was edited by the same prople.) Whilst there is always the internet for info, this is much simpler to pick up and check a player or club's info. Obviously as the season wears on, web-sites are more up-to-date but that still doesn't stop me buying the new edition each August as it just proves indespensible at times. I do question a few of the heights given in this year's edition (please can the Ed's check, although this can be hard to do as I've seen players on three different sites have three different heights?) but otherwide the publication is usually faultless. I defy any football enthusiast to not find one fact in it's 1000+ pages that doesn't make them go 'Oh really!'
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