Football's Fifty Most Important Clubs journeys into the history of football, exploring the successes, failures and innovations of the world's most influential clubs. Football is not just a sport. It is a way of life built from a multitude of different elements, each with their own complexities and intricacies. There is none more important than those found in the 'club'. Bringing together people from different classes, identities and nations, there is much we can learn from the past, present and future of the game's most important institutions. Alongside ever-expanding trophy cabinets, super stadiums and the sport's greatest players are stories of tragedy, identity and conflict, all of which have shaped how we watch and discuss the modern game. It's all very simple really: without the club, there could be no football. The history of football's most important clubs helps us to better understand not only the current state of play, but the wider world around it.