This classic humour novel chronicles the momentous journey of Steeple Sinderby (an unremarkable Fenland village) from the mire of obscurity to national heroics. This unbelievable feat is contrived by the serendipitous meeting of three great men: Mr Fangfoss (who cares nothing for football), Dr Kossuth - a Hungarian academic and headmaster of the village school, and the Wanderers captain Alex Slingsby, a mighty warrior biding his time in quiet Sinderby for the chance to rise once more. The story takes an affectionate look at small-minded Middle England, and the glories of God's own game while taking in love and death, bigotry, bigamy and good old-fashioned English snobbery.
- ISBN10 0904388026
- ISBN13 9780904388022
- Publish Date 7 April 1975
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint London Magazine Editions
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 124
- Language English