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Nowhere to Run - The ridiculous life of a semi-professional football club chairman (Hardcover)
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Nowhere to Run - The ridiculous life of a semi-professional football club chairman (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R480
Discovery Miles 4 800
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'A funny, heartwarming story, packed with memorable characters that
you'll want to cheer all the way. Ave it!' PETER KAY -- 'I decide
to do what any sensible adult would do and take the spare key from
the secretary's office and hide in the outside storage unit. Locked
away in the icy cold shipping container I gather my thoughts and
start to consider my next move. I start to feel much calmer, until
Winnie opens the unit to find me sat in the dark squashed against a
disused hotplate, a ball bag and multiple packets of unopened
socks. He takes a canister of Deep Heat and an old knee support and
closes me back in. It's a moment we'll never mention to each other
again.' On the second oldest football pitch in the world, Jonathan
Sayer stands atop a beer crate to address the assembled fans of
Ashton United FC. As his initial optimism begins to slip through
his fingers, the new co-chairman and co-owner (alongside his dad)
starts to realise the scale of the challenge ahead. Battling to
keep the club afloat, a record number of games without a win sees
hope turn to despair as Jonathan contends with a mutiny from a
group of octogenarian supporters, constant battles with the local
council and a star striker who arrives on crutches despite somehow
passing his medical. As the on-pitch form continues to deteriorate
and rifts appear between him and his father, Jonathan begins to
make some increasingly desperate decisions: sinking his savings
into an ever-spiralling wage bill, hiding in a freezing outdoor
storage unit to avoid questions and even seriously contemplating
bringing in a local priest to lift the 'Boxing Day Curse' by
performing a late-night exorcism on the pitch. Chronicling the
euphoric highs and bitter disappointments of the less glamourous
side of the beautiful game, Nowhere to Run is the hilarious,
heart-warming tale of life in the hot seat of a non-league football
club. 'Beautifully written and engaging... funny, warm and
entertaining. And stupid. Really stupid. I loved it!' MATT LUCAS
'Eat your heart out, Sheikh Mansour.' MICHAEL CALVIN 'Best thing
I've read about Ashton and I was born there.' JUSTIN MOORHOUSE
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