'I loved it ...extremely funny. A must-read for anyone who loves football.' Peter Crouch In the late 1960s, in the warm glow of England winning the World Cup, Dave Roberts, like most teenage boys his age, was football mad. There was just one difference: rather than supporting the likes of Arsenal or Manchester United, Dave's team of choice was the ever so slightly less glamorous Bromley Football Club - one of the last genuinely amateur football teams left, fighting for survival in the lowest non-league division. This book is the story of Bromley's worst ever season. It is a funny and heart-warming tale of football at the very bottom: Dave turns up to each match with his football boots in his bag, just in case the team are a player short; the crowd is always announced as 400 as no-one can be bothered to count; the team ship so many goals that in one match, the taunting opposition fans actually lose count of the score. It's easy being a football fan when your team are always winning. The Bromley Boys is the touching true story about supporting a club through thin and even thinner: proof that the more your team may lose on the pitch, the more there is to gain on the terraces.
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"Genuinely funny...thoroughly recommended" -- When Saturday Comes, September , 2008
"Hilarious and heart-warming...a great read." -- Coventry Telegraph, September 15, 2008
Genuinely funny...thoroughly recommended
-- When Saturday Comes, August 2008
This marvellous memoir is a must read...exceedingly funny...ranks among the very best books with a sporting theme. -- Birmingham Post, October 2008
"Hilarious and heart-warming...a great read." -- Coventry Telegraph, September 15, 2008
Genuinely funny...thoroughly recommended
-- When Saturday Comes, August 2008
This marvellous memoir is a must read...exceedingly funny...ranks among the very best books with a sporting theme. -- Birmingham Post, October 2008
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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You do not have to come from Bromley to buy & enjoy this book! It is a tale that every supporter of lower league & so called 'non league'teams can relate to.
The expectations of a successful season,are soon outdone by the true reality, yet we still wake up on every match day, keen & eager to trapse all over the land watching our team. The glory hunters of the top Premier league teams have no concept of the roller coaster that is suporting a team that struggles to survive on & off the pitch.
Every supporter thoughout the land shout buy this book for an insite as to the true reality of grass roots football, without which, the elite would not be there.
The expectations of a successful season,are soon outdone by the true reality, yet we still wake up on every match day, keen & eager to trapse all over the land watching our team. The glory hunters of the top Premier league teams have no concept of the roller coaster that is suporting a team that struggles to survive on & off the pitch.
Every supporter thoughout the land shout buy this book for an insite as to the true reality of grass roots football, without which, the elite would not be there.
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By G. Page
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This is a really enjoyable book in which Dave Roberts intertwines his memories of a spectacularly unsuccessful Bromley season with the growing pains of a teenage boy, first seemingly sent to a public school to better himself and then quickly 'expelled' partly through his Bromley allegiance. The book has a match by match structure, and with the false dawn of 3 earlish season wins, you wonder why the season is labelled as being so bad. A relentless loss after loss after loss from then onwards, with Bromley's few fans looking for any slight crumb of comfort justifies the title. There are many great anecdotes and stories on the way, with the author finally realising his dreams by helping out in the Bromley Supporters' Club and getting a lift in his hero Alan Stonebridge's car. Why don't Waterstones stock books like this?
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Found this book by accident but then could not put it down.
I was around the same age as the writer and lo and behold I used to go an watch Barking in the Isthmian League at the same time. We had quite a good team and didn't do too bad that season. we had a few good players who I remember - a guy called Butcher and Neville Fox who I knew well as he displayed his goal scoring skills on the pitch and was handy with the slipper at school since he was one of my PE teachers. Such was the joys of being a young adolescent in 1969!!
The book bought back so many memories and the joy of going to Barkings ground, Vicarage Field (Now a shopping centre) and watching every first team and reserve game come sun or rain.
The author really does deliver up a great read. I understand his passion and appreciate his effort in putting it all into writing.
I was around the same age as the writer and lo and behold I used to go an watch Barking in the Isthmian League at the same time. We had quite a good team and didn't do too bad that season. we had a few good players who I remember - a guy called Butcher and Neville Fox who I knew well as he displayed his goal scoring skills on the pitch and was handy with the slipper at school since he was one of my PE teachers. Such was the joys of being a young adolescent in 1969!!
The book bought back so many memories and the joy of going to Barkings ground, Vicarage Field (Now a shopping centre) and watching every first team and reserve game come sun or rain.
The author really does deliver up a great read. I understand his passion and appreciate his effort in putting it all into writing.
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Brilliant book, well written and having grown up in the area know a few of the places myself!
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