Patrick has written a sporting memoir called Offsider: How a Scrawny Pommy Kid Learnt to Love the Socceroos. From the moment he could kick a ball, Patrick Mangan was fanatical about soccer. And what he lacked in skill, he made up for in devotion.

Like Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch set among the gum trees and dust, this is the story of a weedy Pommy kid falling in love with the world game and his epic battle to convert the pagans of the outback to the cause. Offsider is about how sport defines us, how nationality defines us.

Patrick will be in conversation with another soccer tragic, general funny man Santo Cilauro.

Free, but please book on 9819 1917 or by email.