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Splinters has somehow managed to scoop the jackpot and score the Wildcats a gig playing at the reopening of Wembley Stadium. The team is excited until they realise that they are scheduled to play the cream of English schoolboys. And it's the Wildcats who are going to get creamed! After years of being humiliated by Australia at cricket, swimming, equestrian, and beach volleyball, the English FA decides that, with the rest of the world watching, it's time for a bit of colonial payback. But the authorities haven't counted on the pride that goes with pulling on the green and gold, or in the Wildcats' case, the red and blue. Larkin's creation of the worst soccer team in the history of coordinated sweating is a hilarious depiction of devotion to sport - and teenage life in general. I hope John Larkin didn't get paid much for writing the Western Wildcats books. No one should be paid to have so much fun. John Larkin is one of Australia's funniest writers and when he's away from his desk has been a supermarket trolley boy, computer programmer and professional soccer player. He now writes fiction and film scripts full time. His published by Hachette include the Western Wildcats series, PIZZA FEATURES NOSTRADAMUS AND THE INSTANT NOODLES and LARKIN ABOUT IN IRELAND.