Exciting and realistic football story set in a small Kansas town. The Linn, Kansas Bulldogs learn that they can compete against the bigger named schools. Quarterback Chase Brown leads the team through good times and bad. Through injuries and disappointment. The story of a team and a football player that had set a goal. One to win the state championship, and the other to earn a scholarship to the University of Nebraska. Read and enjoy this exciting and realistic story written by the coach that led the team to victory. While this book is certainly fiction, it is based upon an actual season in an actual school in Kansas. Many of the events and game situations are written just as they happened. Must reading for a football fan looking for a good inspirational story.

Here's a collection of poems about goals, fans, yobs, cheers, fouls, boots, scarves, crowds, strips. You'll also see falling stars, blind referees, magic sponges, dream teams, fizzy drinks, wet Saturdays, hairless half-backs, and a game of two halves. This is a thought-provoking as well as an entertaining book, and includes a number of reflective poems, dealing with some of the more serious issues in football. Most of the poems have been specially written for this collection.

Modern football began in England in the 1850s and in a few decades, spread all over the world. Football Fever: The Ultimate Quiz Book celebrates the great game with special rounds on all time greats like Pele, Diego Mara- dona, Johan Cruyff, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. There are questions on the politics of football and how Hollywood and Bollywood have embraced a game the world loves. Football Fever salutes every enthusiast, every fan.

Pep times his move with instinctive perfection. Suddenly, he's back on the ball, and the defenders realize (too late, because they're committed now) that he never really left: it was all an illusion. And then he's over the ball, collecting it with his right instep, to banana it over the heads of both defenders, and way beyond the reach of the late-diving keeper... Football Fever 3 contains ten brand new soccer stories from a team of top authors including Rob Childs, Narinder Dhami and Tony Bradman. As well as Pep, join the rest of the squad - midfielder Andy who has a chance to impress the soccer scouts, if only his father will allow him to play; Dekko, captain of the Hilljoy team, the roughest, toughest team to run out on to a football pitch, striker Jonno, who gets a brilliant idea of how to lift his team from bottom of the league, and many others.

Ten top-of-the-league soccer stories. Meet Craig, who takes advice from a phantom footballer to help his team on a goal-scoring run in the league championship; Dave, an inexperienced goalie who has to make split-second decisions in a penalty shoot-out; Olly, a top striker, who invents new team tactics just before the Cup semi-finals; and a whole squad of other talented young players - goalies, defenders, midfielders and strikers. Celebrate the goals, applaud the great saves and hold your breath for those edge-of-the-seat matchplay moments in this collection of never before published soccer stories from a team of top authors including Rob Childs, Narinder Dhami and Paul Stewart.

In this entertaining and amusing collection of poems about all things football related, you will find hopeless dribblers, useless goalies, competitive dads, and biased refs. But you will also find triumphant teams, supportive families, lucky mascots and failsafe superstitions. There's all toplay for - and something for everyone.* Brilliant selection of poems by top children's poets like Tony Mitton, Allan Ahlberg, Michael Rosen and Paul Cookson* John Foster's books have sold over 1 million copies and his previous collection of football poems, Football Fever, has sold over 10.000 copies alone* Funky fluorescent cover and accessible format make this book eminently 'pick-uppable'!