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ultimate world cup guide 2010

The Ultimate World Cup Guide 2010 is what is known as a MagBook, somewhere between a magazine and book, designed to celebrate the greatest ever sporting event - The World Cup.

It includes a dedicated page to each of the qualifying teams who have made it to the finals in South Africa, picking out the strengths and weaknesses and assessing the teams managerial qualities.

The MagBook takes a look around the stadiums that will become so familiar to football fans in just a couple of months from now and also a brief history of the ultimate World Cup stadiums and ultimate World Cup tournaments.

The publication covers practically everything that you would want to see in a World Cup magazine, keeping it’s articles brief but readable and with plenty of images from past tournaments.

Among the articles,  you will find the ubiquitous World Cup controversies and grittiest scandals as well as its greatest moments, World Cup legends, Classic encounters and Ultimate World Cup losers. Who can possibly forget the Holland team of  1974 for instance, easily the best team in the competition, beaten by West Germany in the final?

An A to Z of England at the World Cup may not be what you want to be reading ahead of South Africa, but it does offer many amusing anecdotes from from England’s past World Cup campaigns, while England’s World Cup Cock-ups is perhaps not so forgiving.

There is plenty here to while away the hours before a ball is kicked in the 2010 finals and once they do start there is a handy wall chart to keep up to date and track the progress of each team up to the final showdown.

Ultimate World Cup Guide 2010 is available  from WH Smith, Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Morrisons, magbooks.com and amazon.co.uk for £5.99