Book Reviews

A WORTHY TRIBUTE

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
1 December 2025

The Football Battalions – The Elite Players Who Fought in the Great War, by Christopher Evans, published by Bloomsbury, Price: £20

THE Football Battalions is the heartbreaking story of how professional footballers went to war.
Christopher Evans explains: “In 1914 Britain is slowly becoming football obsessed: players are turning into household names, attendance is increasing and George V attends the FA Cup final in May and then the war breaks out.”
Once the war began, footballers were put under immense pressure to sign up by the newspapers of the day and man...

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