Updated with a new preface detailing the successful 2009 campaign that saw Barca become champions of Europe Much more than a book about football, it is the story of one hundred years of obsessive national pride

'Excellent...A densely detailed account of the history of F. C. Barcelona ... Coincides with Barcelona's 100th anniversary but it is not in the least pious' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Burns' examination of the club's fates and fortunes always goes well beyond the game itself...Burns is a brilliant journalist...Unmissable' TOTAL FOOTBALL

Jimmy Burns is a prize-winning author and journalist. Of his previous books, The Land That Lost Its Heroes, won a Somerset Maugham award for non-fiction.