A highly unusual romp, both coarse and intellectual, through the world of what it now feels rather quaint to call "association football", taking that world as an Eliotic "objective correlative" for the state of Britain. Michael Horovitz covers a lot of ground (and indeed grounds, not just Molineux) from the Anglo-Saxon poem The Wanderer up to the notorious Smethwick by-election of 1964 and beyond. "An Epic of Britannia, In Twelve Books, With a Resurrection and a Life, for Poetry United". Excerpts were read by the author on John Peel's Night Ride. Sections also appeared in the Wolverhampton Express & Star, though one wonders which bits they chose to serialise: there are passages in here which no local newspaper would print!

Artists and photographers contributing to the book - aside from Horovitz himself - are Peter Blake, Michael Bloom, Jeff Cloves, Mal Dean, R. Elson, P.G. Findlay, Michael Foreman, John Furnival, Bob Godfrey, Jeff Goldner, Richard Hamilton, Adrian Henri, David Hockney, Marigold Hodgkinson, Pete Hoida, Patrick Hughes, Paul Kaplan, Mike McInnerney, Pete Morgan, Stephen Morris, Gabi Nasemann, Jeff Nuttall, David Oxtoby, Tom Phillips, Adam Ritchie, Nick Roberts, Ron Sandford, Colin Self, Shepard Sherbell, Feliks Topolski and Michael Tyzack.