The Foreign Revolution: How Overseas Footballers Changed the English Game

"Chelsea's 2-1 win against Southampton on 26 December 1999 was lessignificant than the fact they fielded the first all-foreign XI in theistory of the English Football League. The manager Gianluca Vialli couldn'tnderstand the fuss, but English football had been irrevocably changed..." "he Foreign Revolution" is the definitive account of how the mother countryelearned the game, and opened her heart and wallet to a generation oforeign stars and a host of foreign managers. The celebrated and the obscurehare the stage in this meticulously-researched and entertaining account ofow cultures came to collide and merge in our national game. From the firstorays in the late 19th century to the golden age of Cantona, Henry andourinho, the Russian Revolution at Stanford Bridge and the take over at Mantd, Nick Harris dives into the melting pot and tells football's greatnwritten story.