The Bromley Boys

Author:

By Dave Roberts

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Paperback

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Football, Fan Culture, Non League, Bromley FC

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Further Details

• Published: 18th Aug 2008
• ISBN: 1906032246
• Pages: 288
• Size: 234mm x 153mm

From the Publisher:

In the late 1960s, in the warm glow of England winning the World Cup, Dave Roberts, like most teenage boys his age, was football mad. There was just one difference: rather than supporting the likes of Arsenal or Manchester United, Dave's team of choice was the ever so slightly less glamorous Bromley Football Club - one of the last genuinely amateur football teams left, fighting for survival in the lowest non-league division.This book is the story of Bromley's worst ever season. It is a funny and heart-warming tale of football at the very bottom: Dave turns up to each match with his football boots in his bag, just in case the team are a player short; the crowd is always announced as 400 as no-one can be bothered to count; the team ship so many goals that in one match, the taunting opposition fans actually lose count of the score.It's easy being a football fan when your team are always winning.

"The Bromley Boys" is the touching true story about supporting a club through thin and even thinner: proof that the more your team may lose on the pitch, the more there is to gain on the terraces.This is a brilliantly written part football memoir, part coming of age story.

From the Critics:

“Agonisingly funny - perfectly captures the sad, futile, yet glorious world of the adolescent male football fan”

Harry Pearson

“Genuinely funny....thoroughly recommended”

When Saturday Comes

“The Bromley Boys is the best football memoir I have ever read. Where Dave Roberts truly succeeds is in making his experiences chime with anyone who grew up as a football fan anywhere and in any era; the experiences are timeless and universal. He relates his story with irresistible charm and sharp self-deprecating wit, and at the turn of every page I found myself shouting, 'me too! me too!' You don't have to be a Bromley supporter to love this book. You don't even have to have heard of Bromley. Dave Roberts is every small boy in every town who ever loved a football team, and The Bromley Boys deserves to be a classic”

Charlie Connelly

“This marvellous memoir is a must-read...exceedingly funny...among the very best books with a sporting theme”

Yorkshire Evening Post

“With laugh aloud moments as young Dave Roberts reveals his love for Bromley, sheepskin coats, skinheads and his best mate's big sister, The Bromley Boys is well worth a read”

Kent On Sunday