If there's one book you'd ever read about Liechtenstein, this so much definitely is the one! Why would an Englishman follow a team which lost all games in the World Cup Qualifying scoring no goals in the process?

Easy! Liechtenstein is a very easy to like! Their left-back needs to ask his principal to get some days of his teaching duties to travel to international matches. Their sweeeper cannot travel to play Spain because he needs to care for his wine grapes just before harvesting. And the players meet casually at the town pub.

And Liechtenstein is a wonderful place, too. The contrasts are staggering and the people are perhaps more peculiar than anywhere else. Perhaps there's just over 30000 of them?

Charlie Connelly writes just as entertaining and amusing it took Bill Bryson several years to reach perfection.

Yes, I even went there on vacation the summer after I read the book. That's how much I loved the book. Am I sad, or what? ( )