Before cracking open this book I could have told you the following things about Dutch football: that there was a famous player named Johan Cruyff who has some kind of “turn” named after him, that the best team in the country is named Ajax but it’s not pronounced like you’d think, and that the national team wears orange. I was also familiar with the name “Total Football” but I couldn’t have described it in any detail. Winner’s book is only sort of a history of […]