Beautiful Game
Fact and fiction intertwine in this heartfelt tribute to football, honouring victims of Hillsborough and other disasters, and celebrating trailblazing black players.
Football is Lennie's life, like his dad and grandad before him. But then Lennie gets involved with some fans who want to cause trouble at a game.
Dad and Grandad understand only too well the cost of fan violence, official neglect and racism in football, and they take Lennie on a whistle-stop tour of the dark side of the beautiful game.
Packed with facts about football disasters and controversies, this passionate and timely book charts the highs and lows of our national obsession.
Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.
A former primary school teacher, Alan Gibbons has sold over 1.3 million books and won many prestigious awards including the Blue Peter Award for ‘The Book I Couldn’t Put Down’. Alan is a high-profile library campaigner and education consultant and is a very popular speaker at schools, libraries, colleges and conferences – he visits over 150 schools a year.