- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Gecko Press (25 April 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955279607
- ISBN-13: 978-0955279607
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.4 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,558,620 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A must-read for all Sunday League players and their long-suffering wives and girlfriends. Happy Days & Sundays captures perfectly the banter and humour of pub football.
It's Sunday morning. You're hungover and it's raining cats and dogs outside. Kick off's in fifteen minutes and it's a ten minute drive to the ground. Your girlfriend snuggles up close to you. It's a no contest ... you can't let your mates down.
In a tale of loyalty, friendship and - let's be honest - drunken shenanigans, pub football team Stockgrove FC play out the most extraordinary season in ther history. Their quest for silverware sees them travelling from Buckingham to Bangkok.
What makes grown men tumble out of bed on a cold winter morning to go and kick lumps out of each other? Happy Days & Sundays is the perfect antidote to the overpaid prima donnas of the Premiership. This is football in the raw.
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A very competent debut performance by the boy Cavanagh. The former stand-up comedian delivers a number of beautiful one-liners in this well-crafted, funny and affectionate look at the world of pub football.
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If the Carlsberg "Probably the best Sunday Team" advert brought back the smell of deep-heat in your nostrils, then this debut novel is a must-buy. Fast paced and witty, Cavanagh manages to weave a story which mixes the culture of English Sunday morning football with the spices and beautiful scenery of Thailand. There are tips for Sunday morning footballers (watch what your mates put in your kit-bag and check your shower-gel), as well as for those travelling to Bangkok (what to see, how to barter etc). But the highlights are the author's own anecdotes which regularly pop-up throughout the story. Some of the puns will make you groan, but many of the stories will be ones you recognise from your own experiences. It's not all laughs - Cavanagh ends his story with a sensitive and delicate exposition of the juxtaposition of birth and death and the end and beginning of relationships. GIVE IT A GO. IT'S WELL WORTH £7.99 OF ANYONE'S BRITISH POUNDS.
Thankyou Roy Cavanagh! Finally a book that provides a refreshing antidote to all the samey 'chick lit' weighing down our bookshelves! This book is the perfect World Cup companion for all of us who need to understand or remind ourselves of the passion men have for that 'funny old game'. Who knows that insight could even save your relationship over the next few rollercoaster weeks and the subsequent football season. This book delivers it all, humour, friendships, relationships and travel to the Orient (that's Thailand not Leyton!!) A must have accessory on the beach which might help boost your credibility with the man in your life, read and enjoy!
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