The boyhood of Burglar Bill
by Allan Ahlberg
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The boys from the bottom pitch, a great soup of boys play football. When the 'Coronation Cup' is proposed they put their heads together, pool their pocket money and get a team together. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
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Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Social life and customs, Soccer, Juvenile fiction, Poverty, Children's stories, Stealing, Social conditions, Teamwork, Manners and customs, Tournaments, Children's fiction, Soccer, fiction, Great britain, fictionPlaces
1945-, Great Britain, EnglandTimes
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Originally published: 2006.
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Coronation Year, 1953, and in Oldbury a Coronation football competition is organized. The boys from the bottom pitch get a team up, but there's no chance they'll win, of course. They're just the odds and sods – one of them is even a girl – but they're all football crazy and ready and eager to beat off the opposition.A funny and moving story of football and friendship in a world when the streets were full of kids and empty of cars. Not only for boys – and girls – of 9+, there's a real pull of nostalgia for adults as well. And, of course, for all lovers of football, whether on the pitch or in the park.
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