Title: The Boyhood of Burglar Bill
Description: Coronation Year, 1953, and in Oldbury a Coronation football competition is organized. The boys from the bottom pitch get a team up, but there's no chance they'll win, of course. They're just the odds and sods – one of them is even a girl – but they're all football crazy and ready and eager to beat off the opposition.A funny and moving story of football and friendship in a world when the streets were full of kids and empty of cars. Not only for boys – and girls – of 9+, there's a real pull of nostalgia for adults as well. And, of course, for all lovers of football, whether on the pitch or in the park.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Social life and customs, Soccer, Juvenile fiction, Poverty, Children's stories, Stealing, Social conditions, Teamwork, Manners and customs, Tournaments, Children's fiction, Soccer, fiction, Great britain, fiction
Places: 1945-, Great Britain, England
Time periods: 1945-, 20th century