News of the World Annual goes Nationwide
A blog on the AFS wouldn’t be complete without a mention of the News of The World Football Annual that is now in it’s 122nd year according to a proud claim on it’s cover, but this year there’s a new publisher and a new sponsor and the book has been re-launched as the Nationwide Football Annual.
Nationwide have agreed to back publication of the book, which is thought to be the second-oldest sporting annual after Wisden, for the forthcoming 2008/09 season.
The book was launched by former England goalkeeper Peter Shilton.
Nationwide have agreed to back the book for this year, no decision has been made on whether that sponsorship will continue to next year or not as yet.
The book will once again be edited by Stuart Barnes but will now be published by
Randall Northam of Sportsbooks, this year it has 544 pages whereas the first edition 121 years ago had just 16 pages.
For more details, click on the Book Review section on the front page of our site, where the new Nationwide Football Annual is currently available from Amazon for the bargain price of £5.24, plus postage.
It’s definitely on my shopping list.
July 25th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Thanks for the heads-up I’ve been searching for it under News of the World on Amazon and nothing was coming up. Have added to my pre-orders along with the Sky(Rothmans), PFA Players and European Yearbook. All worthy books for Stattos and Anoraks