Family: Life, Death and Football: A Year on the Frontline with a Proper Club

An emotional season with a proper football club fighting for promotion.

From the award-winning author of NO HUNGER IN PARADISE;;Outside the global spotlight, footballers don’t drive Aston Martins or pose for underwear ads. This is war. This is life. This is football.;;Michael Calvin turned up for the first day of pre-season training at Millwall FC. 333 days later, he sat among the subs at Wembley.;;Over the course of a season, he witnessed the intimate everyday life of a football club far from the glitz and glamour of the Premier League, and the unique characters that come together every day on the field.;; These are dedicated, hard-working family men, close to their roots, ‘playing for the people who hate their jobs, who’d love our lives.’; ; Forget about the over-hyped circus of the Premier League. This is the beautiful game in all its raucous glory- essential reading for anyone whom football is a way of life.