It doesn`t prevent me from comprehension, that one of the tasks of penetration of this theme into the book is to make it attractive for such readers-fans as I and to focus through the football theme on other themes, opened in this book. A gripping tale about two boys who must find their own answers - and their own way forward - in a world divided by differences. I think that Theresa Breslin described the way that every teenager must pass to become a responsible adult man.

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Which football team you support, where you live, your name – everything defines the two boys from different backgrounds who would be friends. If he began to run the gang of boys would think he was running from them – might mistake him for the one they were after.Good for teaching, but uses characters as vessels for opinions/conversations which jar with the narrative. From Kathleen, Joe's hairdressing auntie, to Mr Sinclair, who becomes more and more important to the boys, to Jammy, an unpredictable cousin with a violent streak - everyone is a rounded individual. Of course, I admired the football match descriptions and the teenagers' dreams of them playing in the World Cup final.

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Wherever Breslin has historical or geographical or topological matter to impart, she does it with a light touch and integrates it into the conversation and thoughts of her characters, so that you never feel you're just being fed information. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. At least, I guess there may be a way to connect to the football aspect of it - even if the footie talk is mostly limited to the two Glaswegian teams in the early 2000s.

The most beautiful meaning is that two religious ways can come together by an adventure or a common sport. If both boys were as good at football as the novel tells us they’d most likely already be attached to a club and probably not allowed to play for anyone else. The thing that amazed me most is plenty and diversity of motifs, touched in this book, based on religious division. Introduced to this book by my school teacher wife who teaches this to P7 at a Glasgow Roman Catholic primary. So begins a compulsive contemporary novel, exploring traditional tensions between Protestants and Catholic football supporters plus the plight of asylum seekers adrift in the city.