Moving, funny and beautifully written. Mark Davies has delivered a wonderful, uplifting chronicle of where sport - in this case football - can take you when life has transported you to the darkest places. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
-- Phil McNulty, Chief Football Writer * BBC Sport *Profoundly moving, brilliantly written and beautifully observed, this is a Fever Pitch for our times, a wonderful antidote to the ills of modern football and a reminder of the power for good the game still wields.
-- Oliver Holt, Chief Sports Writer * The Mail on Sunday *A tender reflection on the way the love of football helps us cope with anything, even our own mortality.
-- Alyson Rudd * The Times *Mark Davies is a writer, journalist and communications professional. He has worked for the BBC, CNN, Liverpool Echo, Liverpool Daily Post and Teesside Evening Gazette. He has written for The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and The Mirror as well as Middlesbrough fan sites The Boro Breakdown, Fly Me To The Moon and The Boro Mag.