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|title=Who Invented The Stepover? (And Other Crucial Football Conundrums)

|author=Paul Simpson and Uli Hesse

|publisher=Profile Books

|date=November 2013

|summary=Impress your football supporting friends with some top trivia about the beautiful game.

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In 1982, second division Charlton Athletic staged an unlikely transfer coup by signing former European Footballer of the Year Allan Simonsen. If the thought of the Danish superstar forsaking the glamour of Barcelona for south east London seemed unlikely then consider that Simonsen had previously faked his own death during a World Cup qualifier.