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Any Chance Of A Game?

  • Imprint: Ebury Press

  • ISBN: 9780091908782

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 126mm

  • Weight: 219g

  • RRP: £12.99

Any Chance Of A Game?

Fast approaching 30, Barney Ronay is a Sunday League left back with some tough choices to make. Is staying in with his girlfriend and Gardeners' World on a Friday night doing much for his match fitness? Would he be better off back with his best mate Dan in the bachelor pad of pizza boxes, lager and Playstation into the early hours? And at their age can they still afford to spend weekends in their desperate struggle to keep Bolingbroke Athletic afloat? Shouldn't they be growing up, getting married, spending their Sundays at Homebase?

This is the hilarious story of a team in early mid-life crisis, hiding from responsibility in the strange masochism at the ugly end of the beautiful game - the smell of Deep Heat, naked fat men, hangovers and the eternal belief that next week you might just rediscover your first touch.

  • Imprint: Ebury Press

  • ISBN: 9780091908782

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 126mm

  • Weight: 219g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • A tale anyone who has ever played football can relate to, a tale any number of people could have written. But I'm glad it was Barney Ronay who actually did it. His version is funny, sharp, poignant, his ear for conversation acute. And his prose is at times blissful, filling his book with observations that lift it way above being just an accumulation of park football yarns... he makes you care for a bunch of footballing saddos, root for them, really hope they manage to pull it off

    Telegraph

  • Resounds with matey banter. His descriptions of the actual games are hilarious, and his book has more insight into the pleasures, pain and the point of football than the combined autobiographies of an entire premiership squad

    Independent on Sunday

  • Hilarious ... affectionately captures the rites of passage of your average footy-mad guy

    Metro

  • If Barney Ronay played football as well as he writes about it nobody would have heard of David Beckham

    Harry Pearson

About the Author

Barney Ronay

Barney Ronay lives in London. As well as writing Any Chance of a Game? Barney has co-authored the WSC Companion to Football, writes for the Guardian and When Saturday Comes, and is the creator of the mildly successful satirical sporting website The Pitch. He plays left midfield.

Barney Ronay

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