"A strange and funny novel that, by not really being about football, gets to the heart of football's elegiac nature." - Jonathan Wilson, Four-Time FSA Football Writer of the Year
"This book is a truly wonderful curiosity, as real as it is fantastical. Most people would be satisfied with writing either a comic masterpiece or a dazzling social history. JL Carr did both at once. Brilliantly funny, heartrendingly wistful, and totally mad." - Marina Hyde, Sports Journalist of the Year
"It is simply the best football based work of fiction" - DJ Taylor, The Guardian
More than just a book about football; this tale of the village team’s ultimate success wryly observes the idiosyncrasies of rural life, the unique personalities therein and the power of ambition.
"Book writing can be a tedious job needing some incentive to keep one at it. The impulse here was 'can this unbelievable feat be made to sound like the truth even though it didn't happen?' So I stacked the cards - a foreigner with remarkable theories, two young men with good reason for having quit top-class football, a Chairman of Napoleonic ability. Then I dredged up memories of 1930 when I was an unqualified teacher, 18 years old and playing that single season for South Milford White Rose when we won a final which never ended (pitch invasion and furious fights are not new things). I learnt much of rural life during that long-gone autumn, winter and early spring. But is this story believable? Ah, it all depends upon whether you want to believe it." - JL Carr
How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup
Publication Essentials
Dimensions: 20 x 13cm (7.75 x 5")
Printed in Great Britain by Forestry Stewardship Council accredited printers using vegetable based inks and quality paper certified by the FSC as sustainable. This standard-sized paperback is type-set and formatted by the Quince Tree Press in keeping with JL Carr's original style and authorial autonomy.
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Reviews
What a joy. With this I have read all the JL Carr novels and shared them with my family, bought them as presents and left one on a Tube by mistake. The map of Cornwall is a great present, so I’ve ordered another. Been the fiddly bits before the novels start are interesting. Quirky Tree Press. Gentle, erudite, witty.
I received my order yesterday and am so pleased with the contents which lived up to my expectation! The books and pamphlets are beautifully presented and the service I received was excellent. I will be putting a 2nd order in with Christmas presents in mind.
This is certainly a very funny book but it is much more than that. I read somewhere that a football writer complained that the plot is not believable. That is an extraordinarily dim comment to make. This is fiction - where anything can be made to happen.