Baghdad Messi' Review: A Heartfelt Social Realist Drama From Iraq Key to Iraqs footballing success is the story of Ammo Baba, the Arab worlds Pele or Stanley Matthews, whose playing and coaching career spans 50 years. Ammo... Baghdad FC: Iraq's Football Story - A Hidden History Of Sport And This is a very strange and odd book, which - wholly unintentionally, I suspect - makes the case for the Allied war against Saddam's Iraq far better than George W or Tony Blair ever did. What is so bizarre is that Freeman genuinely set out to write a book about football in Iraq, before and after the fall of the man with the big moustache, but the narrative continually gets hijacked by...