Daniel Ford has been a football writer for more than 30 years and has written about the game in England, Argentina, Bermuda, Hong Kong and numerous countries in Europe and Africa. He covered the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the CECAFA Cup, the oldest cup competition in Africa, in Zanzibar in 2002. His first football book, Football Grounds Then and Now (Dial Press), was published in 1994. A Football Fan's Guide to Europe (New Holland) was released in 2009 and has subsequently been translated and published in various countries, including China, Indonesia, Russia, Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands. He has been involved in more than 100 books as author, editor, or publisher, many of them about football or other sports such as rugby, cricket, running, cycling, swimming, and triathlon.
""Brilliantly observed, poignant and laugh out loud"" - Hugh Godwin, sports writer i Paper. ""This book is not just about football, but observations about towns and villages visited and characters met. It goes way beyond what is happening on the pitch"" - Peter Lindsey, Bournefree