SUNDAY LEAGUE

SUNDAY LEAGUE

A Novel by Christian Flinn

Published by Orange Segments

ISBN 978-1496168757, also available on Kindle

 

Danny Milburn is a football-daft pub team striker, kicking about on muddy Sunday League pitches while dreaming of playing under the bright lights of the Premier League. Trouble is, Danny is ham-footed, beer-bellied, and too old to ever make the grade. Or so he thinks. Suddenly presented with the chance to swap Sunday League for Premier League, Danny is thrust into the exciting world of top-flight football. But the modern game is littered with pitfalls that threaten to turn his dream into a nightmare, as he finds himself surrounded by badly-behaved footballers, tabloid journalists, sex, drugs and violence. Can Danny hold things together and realise his dream? And, if so, at what cost? Funny, gritty and authentic, Sunday League is the football novel the beautiful game deserves.

That was where we had dreamed of being since we were kids. On a Premier League pitch, surrounded by fifty-two thousand adoring fans. Instead of here, on a desolate field, socks rolled around our ankles, shorts

overlong, shirts untucked, face reddened, hair swirling in the wind.