Something isn't going quite right for the Sherwood Strikers. Richest side in the League, packed with star players - and wallowing down near the bottom of the table. Is the answer really to bring in a mantra-chanting American football trainer from the States who thinks soccer is a game that's had its day? Veteran manager Joss Morecombe is a hard man to face up to, but he seems to have given up caring. Has he lost his touch? In a barnstorming climax, Morecombe's young players take matters into their own hands, with exciting results...

 

This book features in the following series: Strikers, Strikers Series .

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Welbeck Publishing Group .

David Ross was somehow always the reserve in his school football team, which gave him lots of time to observe the game. He loves to hate supporting Heart of Midlothian and has written numerous other books for children. PAM SMY studied Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, part of Anglia Ruskin University, where she now lectures part-time. Pam has illustrated books by Conan Doyle, Julia Donaldson and Linda Newbury, as well as Bob Cattell's Butter-Finger series for Frances Lincoln. She lives in Cambridge.