A new, fully updated edition of a critically acclaimed, groundbreaking and fascinating exploration into the art, psychology, history and culture of the penalty kick - and how not to miss them.
Ben Lyttleton is a European football writer and broadcaster whose work has been syndicated in more than twenty countries. He is also a director of Soccernomics, the football consultancy.
Fascinating insight... highly recommended for fans, coaches and
athletes in all sports.
*Sir Clive Woodward, England World Cup-winning coach*
Entertaining... splendid... masterful. Footballers of every nation
should be reading this.
*Sunday Times*
The penalty shootout is like a lottery; you never know what can
happen, though I know that there is an outstanding book, Twelve
Yards, that proves otherwise.
*Gérard Houllier*
A wonderful book: extremely well-researched, well-written and
international in its scope. Ben Lyttleton has done something very
rare in football writing: he has got access to some of the game's
leading players and coaches and got them to talk articulately and
thoughtfully about a key aspect of their game. Twelve Yards reveals
the level of intelligence that exists within professional
football: a more cerebral zone than many people realize.
*Simon Kuper, author of Football Against the Enemy and Why England
Lose*
The perfect palliative to ease the anxiety of footie fans,
aficionados and players... With the aid of statistics, physics,
psychology, body language and interviews with players, coaches and
sports scientists, Lyttleton has advice and words of comfort, if
not joy.
*The Times*
A vivid read... Lyttleton appears to have spoken to everybody who's
ever taken part in a penalty shoot-out of any significance. As a
result, he serves up an almost endless series of terrific
set-pieces.
*Reader's Digest*
Brilliant... Twelve Yards is a book every England player should
read.
*Matt Le Tissier, former England international*
Glorious... Lyttleton's book goes into remarkable detail in an
attempt to find a solution, to do for England and penalties what
Freud wanted to do for the human condition by transforming neurotic
misery into normal human unhappiness.
*Sunday Independent*
Fascinating.
*The Observer*
Excellent.
*Financial Times*
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