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by Allan Ahlberg (Author) "The best and worst times of my life occurred, I truly believe, before I was twelve years old ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Puffin Books (1 Mar 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141382848
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141382845
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.6 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 306,140 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Allan Ahlberg is by far our best writer for the young' -- Telegraph

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Coronation Year, 1953, and in Oldbury, a Coronation football competition is organized. It's Spencer's idea to get a team up - some of the players are good, and one of them is even a girl, but all of them are football crazy. The Malt Shovel Rovers team, despite various calamities, is ready and eager to beat off the opposition and win the cup in this funny and moving story of football and friendship, in a world when the streets were full of kids and empty of cars. Not only for boys - for girls too - of 9+, there's a real pull of nostalgia for adults as well, and, of course, for all lovers of football, whether on the pitch or in the park.

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4.0 out of 5 stars You don't have to like football to enjoy this book!, 1 Mar 2007
By Laura Bailey "lauraelbailey" (Leeds, UK) - See all my reviews
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What a surprise, this book is lovely. Real nostalagia. Personally i can't stand football, but this book is actually about the events, people and freindships the football is pretty secondary. The story is written from the childs perspective and then reflects from the writer as an adult point of view. It reminds you of all those wonderfully silly things you said as a child like "lets call ourselves cemetry rovers, that'll SCARE the opposition". and the naughty things you did like steel as somebodys fence to make a bonfire, and the guilt of your mum sticking up for you.
It is a real pleasure when you can see where some of the larger than life characters come from in his childrens books.
Buy this book and you will get a smile on your face.
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