Truth or Busted: The Fact or Fiction Behind Football

Adam Sutherland is an award-winning journalist and non-fiction writer with over 20 years' experience in the industry. He has written for publications including The Observer, Wired and Esquire magazines, and has won the PPA Specialist Writer of the Year Award for his coverage of sport, and a BSME award for Young Writer of the Year. He started his writing career covering bands and music for style magazines The Face, i-D and Arena, but more recently has expanded to cover film, new media and business. He has written a series of business titles for young adults on companies such as Nike, Google and Facebook, and biographies of rapper Jay-Z and Apple founder Steve Jobs.

1: A player was once sent off while taking a penalty
2: A fan sued his team for being rubbish
3: Red and yellow cards mimic traffic lights
4: God knocked England out of the 1986 World Cup
5: World War One was stopped for a football match
6: Footballers earn less than their underpants do
7: Footballers are all softies
8: A school headmaster invented football