The Vodafone Champions League Yearbook - Tapa dura

This is the first ever "Champions League Yearbook"; a book dedicated to providing all football fans with every single scrap of information, fact and statistic about the competition, its history, the managers, players and games which lead to the final in Athens in May 2007. Sponsored by Vodafone, sponsors of the Champions League, the book will provide fans with a day-by-day, match-by-match guide to the entire tournament, including the preliminary and qualifying stages. It will feature major players such as Thierry Henry, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Hernan Crespo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Ronaldinho, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Andrei Shevchenko and Kaka, plus big name coaches like Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, Fabio Capello, Frank Rijkaard, Carlo Ancelotti, and Rafa Benitez. Following the tried and trusted format of the "2006 World Cup Diary" from the same creative team, the book will be clearly laid out, boast bundles of photographs and present detailed statistics on every player, game and team, plus managers and coaches, historical facts and features and provide an analysis of every match which takes place in the 2007 tournament up to the glittering final. The "Champions League Yearbook" will become an annual event, being published in early August each year as the first British clubs enter into the new season's competition.

Harry Harris is the chief football writer of the Daily Express and is renowned for unearthing the stories which shape football history. In this book he will bring the entire 2007 Champions League tournament to life, with analysis, reportage and his usual quick wit. Simon Lowe is the editor-in-chief of Know The Score Books and helped create the Champions League Yearbook and its distinctive style of reportage and statistics. He has previously worked for Channel Five's football coverage, Channel Four's test cricket coverage and edited over 50 football books. Jim Baldwin provides detailed statistics for the Champions League Yearbook having also done so for the 2006 World Cup Diary, plus many other publications on both football and cricket including the biography of Malcolm Marshall and the autobiographies of Paul Parker and Shaun Udal