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We Are Sunday League
- A Bitter-Sweet, Real Life Story from Football’s Grass Roots
- Narrated by: Martin East
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Summary
The Wizards FC was a team of former school friends who - with the help of a few star ringers - slogged their way through mud, skinheads, and Staffordshire bull terriers to win the Edmonton Sunday League. Team captain Ewan Flynn brings alive a world of young men giving it their all on sloping pitches a million miles from the glamour of the Premier League, and officials who volunteer to maintain some sort of order. Along the way, he charts the bittersweet stories of mates who brought success to the Wizards, despite suffering disappointment in their own all-too-brief professional football careers.
It's a sometimes farcical, sometimes tragic tale of growing up in North London: family tensions, friendship, being a man, and seeing where your dreams can take you - even a Roy-of-the-Rovers rise to captaining your country against the world champions. Injuries on the pitch led the writer to many encounters with the surgeons' knife in order to keep playing. He shows how, once football has you, it never lets you go.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-06-20
Really enjoyed it
As a former player and current coach I really related to this book the story was excellent in my opinion, it really brought the world of Sunday league full circle.
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- Nogbad the bad
- 29-10-19
Brilliant
Very good very funny best thing I have listened to for a long time I highly recommend this
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- Steven Stone
- 05-11-20
Great listen
If you ever played non league football, especially with your mates on a Sunday, you will empathise with, and laugh out loud at, this football journey.
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