This is the first novel by the renowned football writer Jonathan Wilson, who writes for the Guardian and Sports Illustrated and is the author of eleven books of football history, including Inverting the Pyramid, Angels With Dirty Faces and The Names Heard Long Ago. Like everybody else at Torpedo Moscow, Vanya loves Eduard Streltsov, the dashing young striker who scores hatfuls of goals. But on the eve of the 1958 World Cup, Streltsov is arrested and Vanya has to reconsider everything. Streltsov is a story of fandom and celebrity, of booze and paranoia, of two men who can only really understand the world through football.