Book description
'The thing about football - the important thing about football
- is that it is not just about football.'
Football is supposed to be a gentleman's game, played on
venerable university lawns for honour, polite applause and a hearty
match tea afterwards. Unfortunately for the gentlemen, the rest of the
world doesn't see it that way. Football has moved on, to the streets,
and now it inhabits a world of pies, chants and jumpers for goalposts.
This is a world where a talent for keeping tin cans in the air could
make you a local celebrity, and where any polite applause is lost in
the roar of pitched battles between fans. This is a world oflife or death.
And if the gentlemen want to try and bend it to their rules again,
they're going to have a fight on their hands.
Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the global
bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of
Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of fifty
bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and
screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the
Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to
literature. Worldwide sales of his books now stand at 70 million, and
they have been translated into thirty-seven languages.
www. terrrypratchett. co. uk
