Collecting Football Programmes

These three books were grabbed eagerly by twelve and thirteen-year-olds, but returned almost untouched. They are well produced with eye-catching cover material and many coloured photographic illustrations. Collecting Football Programmes had a natural appeal and is the most readable of the three for the inexpert collector. However its claim that 'it's a must for every collector from 7 to 70' is indeed rash. The seven-year-old who could read let alone absorb its closely packed verbal content has a promising future as far more than a collector of football programmes!

All three books are compiled in such a way that they are very much the property of the skilled older reader with a specialist interest already developed. Their historical content may warrant them a place among the 'Project' books in the library but they would be very much an extra.