“Every football fan will enjoy this” – John Cross, Daily Mirror
“Beautifully written. A book to lift the spirits.” – Ian
Ladyman, Daily Mail “A heart-rending, life-affirming joy” –
Charlie Connelly, bestselling author of Attention All Shipping
“Reminds us what the game is really all about” – Miguel Delaney,
Independent "A life-affirming tale of never losing faith in your
team." – Adam Hurrey, Daily Telegraph In 1968, fourteen-year-old
Dave Roberts had a dream – to see the team he’d recently begun
supporting, Bromley, play at Wembley. The trouble was that Bromley
were rubbish, and when they spent the following decades far away from
the pinnacle of non-league football, the dream seemed unreasonably
ambitious. But he never gave up. After all, Bromley had been there
before – the proof was in the black-and-white pictures of the
club’s 1949 Amateur Cup triumph which hung on the wall of the tea
hut at Hayes Lane, and which Dave stared at longingly. It was enough
to keep that dream alive, as the rest – fortune, success and
marrying Olivia Newton-John – fell by the wayside. But after fifty
years of never losing faith despite constant disappointment, a
favourable draw in the FA Trophy gave Bromley the chance to finally
make Dave’s dream come true...
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ISBN
9781789650563
Publisert
2019
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Unbound Digital
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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