'The funniest man in British sport' - Metro Featured on BBC Radio 2 with Chris Evans You become a footballer because you love football. And then you are a footballer, and you?re suddenly in the strangest, most baffling world of all. A world where one team-mate comes to training in a bright red suit with matching top-hat, cane and glasses, without any actual glass in them, and another has so many sports cars they forget they have left a Porsche at...

Having won back the club s rightful status as a Premier League club, the challenge is on to finally deliver a trophy, an event the most passionate football fans in the world have waited far too long to see. Yet the Newcastle United story is littered with moments of magic and medals, as this book perfectly illustrates. From the early League titles to considerable FA Cup success, culminating in that never to be forgotten night in the Fairs Cup, Newcastle...

Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can?t nobody stop you/can?t nobody cop you? Twelve-year-old Nick is a football-mad boy who absolutely hates books. In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning novel The Crossover, football, family, love, and friendship take centre stage as Nick tries to figure out how to navigate his parents? break-up, stand up to bullies, and impress...