This collection of short stories pays focus to masculinity and behaviours portrayed in different scenarios, including the authors past within professional football.

This is actually not my usual sort of book, and when I think of football I think boring! However the authors past and challenges that were seen particularly in the second short story were very interesting, dark and highlighting. I absolutely encourage the author to write a full fiction novel of the ‘professional football’ world as it had me hooked and I want more! The writing is amazing, easy to understand and the author has talent!

This book above all else educates! I didn’t enjoy all of the stories but it’s enlightening to see different perspectives of life. I love the cover!

Thank you Negalley and John Budden for this ARC