Author: Gibbons, Alan, 1953-
Publication year: 2017
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Genre: Soccer stories. lcsh Children's stories. lcsh
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Barrington Stoke,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 1781126917 9781781126912 (pbk):
Notes:
Dyslexic-friendly.
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 know only too well the human cost of fan violence and official negligence, having experience racism in football fandom and survived the Hillsborough disaster.
Extent: 65 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.