This title provides a version of Macbeth - transposed to the football field. MacB, with the help of his friend Banksie, plans to supplant Duncan King as the star striker in their school football team. A nasty bike accident puts Duncan out of the game and gives MacB his chance. But Banksie becomes suspicious about the accident - just where was MacB at the time and how far would he go when urged on by his formidable mother? The action of the play is worked through as MacB's ambitions sour and crumble on the football pitch.

 

 

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published in 1999 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .

Neil Arksey is an actor who has performed, and is now teaching at the new Globe Theatre in London. He has written stage and film scripts and this is his second Puffin title. Neil lives in Peckham, London.