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The Bromley Boys
The True Story of Supporting The Worst Football Club In Britain
- Author:
- By Dave Roberts
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- Paperback
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- 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.
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