In the late 1960s, in the warm glow of England winning the World Cup, Dave Roberts, like most teenage boys his age, was football mad. There was just one difference: rather than supporting the likes of Arsenal or Manchester United, Dave's team of choice was the ever so slightly less glamorous Bromley Football Club - one of the last genuinely amateur football teams left, fighting for survival in the lowest non-league division.This book is the story of Bromley's worst ever season. It is a funny and heart-warming tale of football at the very bottom: Dave turns up to each match with his football boots in his bag, just in case the team are a player short; the crowd is always announced as 400 as no-one can be bothered to count; the team ship so many goals that in one match, the taunting opposition fans actually lose count of the score.It's easy being a football fan when your team are always winning. "The Bromley Boys" is the touching true story about supporting a club through thin and even thinner: proof that the more your team may lose on the pitch, the more there is to gain on the terraces.This is a brilliantly written part football memoir, part coming of age story. It presents the Non-League Fever Pitch? Author and publisher are blogging the book's progress from start to end.
Reviews
'This marvelous memoir is a must-read...exceedlingly funny...among the very best books with a sporting theme.' Yorkshire Evening Post
'Hilarious and heartwarming...a great read' Coventry Telegraph
'Genuinely funny...thoroughly recommended' When Saturday Comes
'Nothing has been as good as Fever Pitch. Until now. Laugh out loud funny...a must read for any football supporter.' TheBookbag.co.uk
‘One of the year’s best sporting books’ Kentish Times
'Will strike a chord with football fans everywhere' Adrian Chiles
'Agonisingly funny - perfectly captures the sad, futile, yet glorious world of the adolescent male football fan' Harry Pearson, author of The Far Corner
"Want to sit quietly in the corner of the bus? Then don't read The Bromley Boys. It will make you laugh (and occasionally cry) so much you'll get thrown off." Martin Baker, author of Meltdown
Author Biography
Dave Roberts is a long suffering Bromley fan and author of a novel, e-luv: an internet romance. He lives in New Zealand.
