The Beautiful Game

by Alan Gibbons

Fact and fiction intertwine in this heartfelt tribute to football, honouring victims of
Hillsborough and other disasters, and celebrating trailblazing black players.

At an Old Trafford game, Lennie hears Man U fans chanting about Hillsborough. Enraged, he joins in with a retaliatory chant about the Munich Disaster of '58. Appalled, his dad and granddad take Lennie on a whistlestop tour of the dark side of the beautiful game. Dad and Grandad...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781126917
• ISBN13: 9781781126912
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Barrington Stoke
• Length: 72 Pages
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7