New edition of this anthology of 23 stories and three poems associated with the theme of football.
Only the items of speculative character or by authors above the genre threshold are indexed for this entry (note: Christopher Kenworthy's "Them Belgiums" on pp. 15-24 is nongenre, but the author might turn out to be above threshold).
The copyright of the compilation is assigned for the year 1996 to the editor.
The copyright of the respective content items is assigned for the year 1996 to their authors.
Apparent first printing (not stated).
Month of publication from Amazon.co.uk.
The essay that in a usual anthology would be the foreword, the introduction or the afterword is here published as the 'half-time' on pp. 159-162.
The pieces are organised in three departments, 'First 45' (pp. 9-158), 'Half-Time' (pp. 159-162), and 'Second 45' (pp. 163-288); the three poems are by John Hegley and are subsumed under the heading 'Hat-trick', but only one of them is of speculative content.
Content not indexed for this entry appears on pp. 15-47, 59-82, 132-144, 191-219, 225-245, 267 and 270 & 271.
There are short notes on the authors at the end of each story, they were updated from their supposed first 1996 publication.
A dedication appears on p. 5 (p. 6 is blank).
The table of contents is printed on p. 7; short acknowledgements are on p. 8.
The cover art is credited to Chris Moore; NOTE that the very same artwork is credited to {{A|Colin Thomas}} with the first edition of 1996.
