How Football (Nearly) Came Home: Adventures In Putin’s World Cup

Barney Ronay, Harpercollins, £12.99

The England team that touched down in Russia for the 2018 World Cup was a new-look outfit: there were no real stars and no overblown egos.

Ronay captures the sights and sounds, the twists and turns, the bad food and the great football that made the World Cup one of the greatest of all time.

OUR VERDICT 7/10