- 2005 edition, 314 pages
- Published by Ebury Press / Random House
- Paperback, B format
- Very good condition, as new, light tanning
A season at the ugly end of park footbabll.
Pele called it " the beautiful game I love so well". But then, he would say that. This is the story of an uglier kind of football: a season of Sunday league in a team facing an early mid-life crisis.
For Barney Ronay and Bolingbroke Athletice its a season of pubs and mud; of team mates who are as familiar with the smell of your feet as they are with your dodgy first touch; of two central midfielders who have been having the same argument every Sunday for the last five years; and of someone's mate from Lewisham who plays once, head-butts someone, and is never seen again.
Barney is fast approaching 30 and the opposition have started looking younger every week. His captain has stopped turning up smelling of larger and started handing round energy drinks ( made in Slovenia). For Barney, there's a little voice getting louder every week, telling him it's time to give it up. (That'll be his girlfriend then).
His life is suddenly full of choices: take the ball on the volley or bring it down? Swap the smell of Deep Heat and naked fat men for scented candles and food that doesn't come out of a foil carton? But, at the end of the day, and of the season, Barney might not be ready for his move from the home town team to the bright lights of the garden centre and the sofa warehouse.
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