ANY CHANCE OF A GAME?: A SEASON OF THE UGLY END OF PARK FOOTBALL

Book ID/图书代码： 11340005B06288

English Summary/英文概要： Pele called it ’the beautiful game I love so well’. But then, he would say that. This is the story of an uglier kind of football: a season of Sunday league in a team facing an early mid-life crisis. For Barney Ronay and Bolingbroke Athletic it?s a season of pubs and mud; of team mates who are as familiar with the smell of your feet as they are with your dodgy first touch; of two central midfielders who have been having the same argument every Sunday for the last five years; and of someone’s mate from Lewisham who plays once, head-butts someone, and is never seen again. Barney is fast approaching 30 and the opposition have started looking younger every week. His captain has stopped turning up smelling of lager and started handing round energy drinks (made in Slovenia ). For Barney, there?s a little voice getting louder every week, telling him it?s time to give it up. (That? ll be his girlfriend then). His life is suddenly full of choices: take the ball on the volley or bring it down? Swap the smell of Deep Heat and naked fat men for scented candles and food that doesn’t come out of a foil carton? But, at the end of the day, and of the season, Barney might not be ready for his move from the home town team to the bright lights of the garden centre and the sofa warehouse.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Barney Ronay和Bolingbroke Athletic在过去的5年中每个星期天都会去星期天足球联盟参加活动，有些同伴都是只玩一次而已，之后就再也见不到了。Barney虽然快要接近30可是他觉得他越来越年轻了。但是现在每周要求Barney Ronay放弃这个活动的呼声越来越大，他的生活突然需要面临一次选择：是继续下去还是放弃？

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About the Author/作者介绍： Barney Ronay is 30 and lives in London. He writes for When Saturday Comes and compiles the Clogger pages in the Guardian sports section. He is co-author of the forthcoming WSC Companion to Football (Penguin) and creator of the mildly successful satirical sporting website The Pitch. He plays left midfield.
Barney Ronay生活在伦敦，他为Guardia体育部分写专栏。他还是 WSC Companion to Football的作者之一，并创建了个成功体育网站。

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