Game of Throw-ins

Synopsis

I Was A Rugby Player With A Great Future Behind Me. A 35-year-old Father-of-five With An Expanding Waistline, Who Was Trying To Survive The Bloody Battlefield We Call Everyday Life. My Son Was Locked In A Violent Turf War With A Rival Love/hate Tour Operator, My Daughter Was In Love With A Boy Who Looked Like Justin Bieber And My Old Dear Was About To Walk Up The Aisle With A 92-year-old Billionaire Who Thought It Was Still 1936. I Was, Like, Staring Down The Barrel Of Middle Age With The Contentment Of Knowing That I Was The Greatest Irish Rugby Player Who No One In Ireland Had Ever Actually Heard Of. Until A Chance Conversation With An Old Jesuit Missionary Made Me Realize That It Wasn't Enough. I Was Guided, As If By Gps, To A Muddy Field In - Let's Be Honest - Ballybrack. And There I Finally Discovered My Destiny - To Keep A Struggling Seapoint Team In Division 2b Of The All Ireland League. Or Die Trying. Ross O'carroll-kelly (as Told To Paul Howard) ; Illustrated By Alan Clarke.