The volume is a scrap book attempting to pass itself off as a weighty original work of reference, but is almost completely devoid of opinion, prediction or analysis of any kind. Instead, Mr. Fenby offers 18 chapters of layer upon layer of largely unsourced facts. Lists of firsts, bests and greats are followed by lists of lasts, worsts and leasts, forming such a blizzard of information that the author himself is sometimes disoriented. The determination to throw every possible statistic into each side of an argument leads to the inclusion of much that is barely relevant.