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Description - How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup by J L Carr

How England's most obscure local team, who felt lucky when their home pitch was above water-level, went all the way to Wembley

'But is this story believable? Ah, it all depends upon whether you want it to believe it.' J.L. Carr

Very strange and extremely funny, this uncategorizable novel is a surreal fantasy set, vaguely, in the early 1970s, during one highly memorable football season. Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, in their new all-buttercup-yellow stripe, start it by ravaging the Fenland League and end it with a phenomenal nail-biter against Glasgow Rangers.

Told through unreliable recollection, florid local newspaper coverage and bizarre committee minutes, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup is somehow both entertaining and very moving. There will never be players again like Alex Slingsby, Sid 'the Shooting Star' Swift and the immortal milkman-turned-goalkeeper Monkey Tonks.

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