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Football Crazy is a novel about Frogley Town, an impoverished north of England football club who ply their trade, just, in the Coca-Cola League Two. The club takes on a new lease of life when they are taken over by local millionaire meat pie manufacturer Joe Price, an arch traditionalist who has vowed to take the team all the way to the Premiership - and might very well achieve that lofty ambition if football hooligan-hating Frogley Police Chief Superintendent Screwer doesn't achieve his own ambition first. Lots of laughs, sex, drugs, rock and roll, chicanery and heartache, but very few goals.
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Standing on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border, directly on the flight path of airplanes landing at Manchester Ringway Airport, Frogley is a town of some ninety odd thousand souls (and a hundred and thirty two odd souls who reside in the local mental hospita Read the first page
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Standing on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border, directly on the flight path of airplanes landing at Manchester Ringway Airport, Frogley is a town of some ninety odd thousand souls (and a hundred and thirty two odd souls who reside in the local mental hospita Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I got recommended the author from a friend of mine whose comic/literary views I've usually shared . Having read the book I can thoroughly recommend it to others as both tremendously funny and well written book that deserves critical success.Looking forward to reading one of the authors other published works
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this from cover to cover with barely a break for a cup of tea. For anyone who knows or loves football or anyone who wants to know the real goings on around a small town club this book is a must. The author takes real life characters, the kind we all know and love or loathe from our local teams and he heightens their personalities just enough to make them still credible while making them hilarious. From the off the reader can see the world Stanley inhabits and feel for him. The author treats each of his characters with sensitivity even the megalomaniac policeman Screwer. The story trips along at a great pace and the reader finds himself turning pages quickly. In these days of chicken farmers buying premiership teams it is not a stretch to imagine meat pie magnate Price taking over a small town team and doing exactly the same things. In essence this book caricatures perfectly the goings on in a small town and at a small town club - maybe even the goings on at a premiership club. I would highly recommend this to those interested in footie or those who want a good laugh.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'd already read Terry Ravenscroft's Dear Air 2000 which I found to be hilarious so I was looking forward to reading this. I was not disappointed.
A much better book and far better value than all the England footballers' autobiographies put together. Two of the main characters, Big Donny Donnelly and Superintendant Screwer will surely go down as two of the most laugh-provoking fictional characters in history. A really funny barrelful of laughs book with no padding whatsoever.
A much better book and far better value than all the England footballers' autobiographies put together. Two of the main characters, Big Donny Donnelly and Superintendant Screwer will surely go down as two of the most laugh-provoking fictional characters in history. A really funny barrelful of laughs book with no padding whatsoever.
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Why Sheffield Wednesday?
Sheffield Wednesday won the FA Cup in 1935, so is this Frogley FC ? who cares?
If you wanted an inspiring read about the rise and fall of a football club, Northampton Town,... Read more
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Published 2 months ago by Anthony V
a terrific look at non league football and its foibles.
If like me you were raised on non-league football, and do not own / have never owned a Chelsea or Man United shirt, you will enjoy this book. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mrs. D. L. Powell
Genuinely Funny Book
One of the funniest books I've read in a long time. But don't read it on the train if you are embarrassed by laughing out loud. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. Brian E. Wotton
Anther Very Funny Read
Ive just finished Football Crazy and must say I enjoyed it.Iaughed out loud often and had to put the book down when Dave Raves chinese feng shue man(pardon the spelling)finished... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. A. L. France
First of Many
I bought this book because of the reviews & price & now I am a Terry Ravenscroft fan.
Sometimes it's nice to just have an easy read & this is certainly easy & very... Read more
Sometimes it's nice to just have an easy read & this is certainly easy & very... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Oldbikerboy
In need of a good editor
I have read a few books by Terry Ravenscroft, and when I saw this at 99p thought why not. The book does seem to have some good points, problem is though that it is quite 'clunky'... Read more
Published 5 months ago by obscure
Good stuff
A light, comical, shortish read set in a fantasy world of a minor league football team with all the fantacy, aspirations, lunacy, apathy and delusions that invariabley arise. Read more
Published 6 months ago by M. A. Cossins
Football never looked so good
This has to be my favourite book I have read of TR so far.
As a "massive" football fan of Newcastle United (and we all know how big Geordie Football supporters are - not... Read more
As a "massive" football fan of Newcastle United (and we all know how big Geordie Football supporters are - not... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Chrism8te
A reet good laugh
It takes a good book to make me laugh out loud on a journey involving airports but this book did just that. Read more
Published 6 months ago by S. Ford
Should be on TV !!
In my opinion this is the funniest book that Terry has written. It is so good that it needs to be turned into a TV show without delay. Read more
Published 7 months ago by G. Mackey
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