The Funny Life of Football - WINNER of The Sunday Times Children’s Sports Book of the Year 2023
*WINNER of the Sunday Times Children’s Sports Book Prize 2023 * SHORTLISTED for Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2024: Non-Fiction *
““Every page is guaranteed to grab the imagination and it’s the perfect thing for dipping into at half time.”“ Love Reading 4 Kids
A hilarious fact and fiction hybrid from bestselling author and stand-up comic James Campbell, who has visited over 3,000 primary schools to tell stories and encourage children to write their own.
Want to know why OCTOPUSES can’t play football? And how to play the game across multiple DIMENSIONS? How about learning the REAL RULES of how football is played, why Henry VIII banned it, plus where it came from and who the greatest players of ALL TIME are?
Whether you love a game of TABLE FOOTBALL, can’t get enough of BACK-GARDEN BALL, only enjoy the game from your SOFA or would sooner swim with sharks than play it, if you LOVE to LAUGH – then this is the book for you!
But be warned – this is NOT a normal book. You can read it forwards, backwards, sideways and in approximately 861,000 different ways in between. From comedian extraordinaire James Campbell, get ready to laugh your BUTT off to a silly book filled with funny stories, partly-true facts and hilarious pictures that will make you think twice about the game everyone thinks they know so well.
Latest reviews
I have read this book twice and read parts of it out loud to my friends and family. It is so funny and filled with fact and fiction and funny stories. The illustrations are very funny too.
I liked reading this book because I love football
My favourite footballer was in this book Lucy Bronze I liked that this book had true facts in but always made things funny !!! Also I learnt some facts I hadn't learned yet I also love Football I reccomend this book for people who enjoy watching and playing football or who want to learn more about football
I like this book because it has some facts and some of it was for comedy
I enjoyed reading this book.
It’s a very funny book.
I like it because you have the choice to go to any page and start there. I find it a good technique. There were nice and kind bits, like giving racism the red card, and things I didn't know, like in the 1990 World Cup, Gary Lineker pooed himself. A funny bit was when the author congratulates you for getting to the beginning page without eating the book."Pardon me. It was the 240 pages of a book I ate for breakfast this morning."
It’s a really funny fiction book.It had lots of funny parts and my interest is football at school and how a lot of people play football at school.I would highly recommend people who love football.
I thought it was a really funny book and I love football. I’d recommend it to everyone who likes football.
Brilliant book, just do NOT read it if you want to know only legitimate things about football because it mentions things that aren't real, like inter-dimensional football! Really funny jokes, a real page-turner if you like football.
Very funny
not that good
funny and fun reading!
I loved this book when I love football myself. It was a great read
I like the book because James Campbell plays football in his underpants! He also made the weird League table of picnic ruinations. He also knows what is the most boring thing in the world paradox.
really love this book and highly recommend
This makes me think twice
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