Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 8 | In a nutshell: the highs and lows of our national obsession | Football has the power to excite passions like no other sport. In the words of the great Bill Shankly: ‘Some people think football is a matter of life and death. It's much more serious than that.’ But for all the joy, flag-waving and exhilaration, there’s a dark side too of fan violence, racism and a disregard for fans’ safety. From Hillsborough to Munich and the Heysel Stadium, Alan Gibbons examines the worst events in football in a way that enables young fans to understand what happened and why. A fan himself, his book still celebrates the best of football too as a way to bring people together. ~ Andrea Reece
Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+
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At an Old Trafford game, Lennie hears Man U fans chanting about Hillsborough. Enraged, he joins in with a retaliatory chant about the Munich Disaster of '58. Appalled, his dad and granddad take Lennie on a whistlestop tour of the dark side of the beautiful game. Dad and Grandad know only too well the human cost of fan violence and official negligence, having experience racism in football fandom and survived the Hillsborough disaster.Interwoven with lots of facts about the history of football, the great disasters of the twentieth century and the black footballers who blazed a trail in the UK, this book is ideal to engage reluctant reading football fans.
A perfect companion title to The Lion Roars and The Number 7 Shirt, the latter of which is a perrenial bestseller.
Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Beautiful Game and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
The Beautiful Game features in the following genres: Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommendations, Featured Books for 9+ readers
The Beautiful Game is available in Paperback
The Beautiful Game was written by Alan Gibbons and published by Barrington Stoke Ltd
The Beautiful Game has 65 pages
£7.19