-- Reviews by the Famous and well Known
This book is a must for all Chelsea fans. With a great variety of questions and teasers from past and present it suits both young and old.
Colin Lee, Chelsea Football Club (1980-1987)
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Fun for all the family, fans will read this book for hours.
Ray Lewis, Ex-Professional Referee & Current Chairman of the Referees' Committee
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A superb set of questions to test the memory of any Blues fan! I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
Jason Marriner, Author of 'It's Only A Game'
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A well presented and researched book which I am sure will test the knowledge of even the most ardent of Chelsea fans. Keep it up John, well done!
Robert Auty, Author of "Trance Warriors: The Siege of Scarn"
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-- Newspaper and Website Reviews
DO YOU KNOW YOUR CLUB?
The League Magazine
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A superb set of questions to test the memory of any Blues fan! I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
www.jasonmarriner.com
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World Soccer: The essential football magazine
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The book is a must for all Blues fans with 1,000 questions to keep you busy over the summer months.
www.a2zsoccer.com
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THE UNOFFICIAL CHELSEA QUIZ BOOK
JOHN DT WHITE
(APEX PUBLISHING, £7.99)
If you think you know everything about Chelsea, then the 1,000 questions here are almost certain to prove you wrong! To succeed you will need to be able to cast your mind back 100 years and recall facts and figures on cups, players, managers, records and fixtures.
Shoot Magazine
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Shoot Magazine
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THE UNOFFICIAL CHELSEA QUIZ BOOK
Programme Monthly & Football Collectable
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This is an excellent quiz book on Chelsea FC.
www.dcsc.info
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APEX FOOTBALL QUIZ BOOKS
To date there are six books in this series of football quiz books. The Ultimate Football Quiz Book, The Unofficial Chelsea Quiz Book, The Hoops Quiz Book, The Official Ipswich Town Book, The Tottenham Hotspur Quiz Book and The West Ham United Quiz Book.
Each contains a mixture of easier, moderate and tough questions to suit the complete range of supporters and readers. The names of either men who were co-founders of Blackburn Rovers won't come easy, while the name of the trophy that Birmingham City won in 1991 will tease some; but I suspect most of us know where Arsenal play their home games. All three questions can be found in the 256-page 'The Ultimate Quiz book' (priced £9.99), which contains 2,000 questions on top-fight football in England. It has been compiled by John D T White, with a foreword by Eamonn Holmes.
White also compiles all but one (the one on Hammers) of the other books in the series. Helping to sort the men out from the Bhoys we are asked: Can you name the last Celtic player to score in successive Scottish Cup finals? This is one of 1,500 questions on Celtic that are spread over 198 pages, with the foreword by Jim Craig. This book is priced £8.99.
Among the 1,250 questions in the 162-page Tottenham Hotspur book (priced £8.99) we are asked to name the striker who scored in the 1984 UEFA Cup final shoot-out and never played for the club again? Gary Mabbutt and Pat Jennings ought to know and they also wrote the foreword.
I bet it's not only Suffolk-based football fans who remember the name of the man who scored the winning goal in the 1978 FA Cup final. This is one of 1,200 questions in the 160-page Ipswich book (priced £8.99). David Sheepshanks contributed the foreword.
Among the 1,000 questions in the 134-page Chelsea book (priced £7.99) is: What manager did Steve Clarke fall out with after he was replaced in the team by Gareth Hall?
Chris Cowlin compiled the 1,000 questions on West Ham (134 pages, priced £6.99), with Julian Dicks contributing the foreword. I bet Dicksy doesn't know who was West Ham's highest goalscorer in their triumphant European Cup Winners' Cup run of 1964-65 - but I did. Honest!
The answers to the eight aforementioned questions can be found on the bottom of page 31.
All six quiz softbacks are published by Apex Publishing Limited and are priced as shown above. They are all available post-free from WINGER, 200 Bradford Road, Otley, LS21 3LT. Please make your cheques payable to WINGER.
Another four quiz books (covering Arsenal, Manchester United, Rangers and Southampton) are due to be published later in 2006.
Apex Football Quiz Books (see page 23) - The Answers:
(1) The co-founders of Blackburn Rovers were John Lewis and Arthur Constantine.
(2) Birmingham City won the Leyland DAF Cup in 1991.
(3) Arsenal play their home games at Highbury.
(4) Lou Macari was the last Celtic player to score in successive Scottish Cup finals.
(5) Steve Archibald scored in the 1984 UEFA Cup final shoot-out and never played for Spurs again.
(6) Roger Osbourne netted the only goal in the 1978 FA Cup final.
(7) Steve Clarke fell out with manager Bobby Campbell.
(8) Brian Dear netted four goals to be West Ham United's leading scorer in the their 1964-65 European Cup Winners' Cup run.
David Powter, Winger Magazine
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CALLING ALL YOU SOCER FANS
Ilford & Redbridge Post
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CALLING ALL YOU SOCCER FANS
Romford & Havering Post
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CALLING ALL YOU SOCCER FANS
Barking & Dagenham Post
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THE UNOFFICIAL CHELSEA QUIZ BOOK
Kilburn Times
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THE UNOFFICIAL CHELSEA QUIZ BOOK
The Coleraine Times
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-- Readers Comments
This book must be in the hand of every Chelsea fan and this will test their knowledge of their club. A fantastic set of questions which must of took a long time to research.
A reader from England
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As a die hard, life long Chelsea fan I did find this book both enjoyable and nostalgic. The questions are well set out, some moderately easy and some difficult. A real memory jogger and a must for any true blue!
Reg Thorne
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-- Book Signings and Events
'The Unofficial Chelsea Quiz Book' on sale at Waterstone's, Colchester.
Waterstone's, Colchester
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