Description
| Product ID: | 9781781126912 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Beautiful Game |
| Authors: | Author: Alan Gibbons, Chris Chalik |
| Page Count: | 72 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), For reluctant readers (children) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Fact and fiction intertwine in this heartfelt tribute to football, honouring victims of Hillsborough and other disasters, and celebrating trailblazing black players. Fact and fiction intertwine in this heartfelt tribute to football, honouring victims of Hillsborough and other disasters, and celebrating trailblazing black players.At an Old Trafford game, Lennie hears Man U fans chanting about Hillsborough. Enraged, he joins in with a retaliatory chant about the Munich Disaster of ''58. Appalled, his dad and granddad take Lennie on a whistlestop tour of the dark side of the beautiful game. Dad and Grandad know only too well the human cost of fan violence and official negligence, having experience racism in football fandom and survived the Hillsborough disaster.Interwoven with lots of facts about the history of football, the great disasters of the twentieth century and the black footballers who blazed a trail in the UK, this book is ideal to engage reluctant reading football fans. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+ |
| Imprint Name: | Barrington Stoke Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-04-06 |
