![]() ![]() Terry has none of his ability to raise a laugh." - Daily Express exactly what's needed to cheer us all up in the autumnal gloom. "The subject matter is football, with a dash of Romeo and Juliet."Satirical, historical, fantastical and irresistible." - Daily Mail.Or, to borrow another phrase, it's about life, the Universe, and everything." - The Times This isn't just football, it's Discworld football. "Behind the fantasy Terry Pratchett looks at very real contemporary issues and scores many goals.Because the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. ![]() As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too). And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. ![]()
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