Here is an excerpt from the first chapter of the book for you:
1971
It is a sunny day in Hull, but this is doing very little to lift the spirits of Ronald. He is miffed at missing the first home game of the season between Hull City and Oxford United because his wife, Joyce, has chosen this exact moment to go into labour and he is required to look after their first born, Lisa. He waits near the telephone to find out whether the sodding thing is a boy or a girl.
Joyce couldn’t have waited until Sunday before her waters broke, or even have the decency to deliver during the depressing opening away loss to Charlton. Bob and Bill were both going, and Ronald had detected amusement in Bob’s voice when he’d phoned him to explain as soon as the ambulance had left that morning.
“Oh that’s a…
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