The book that inspired the major motion picture
'I loved it ... extremely funny. A must-read for anyone who loves
football.' Peter Crouch
In the late 1960s, in the warm glow of England winning the World Cup,
Dave Roberts, like most teenage boys his age, was football mad. There
was just one difference: rather than supporting the likes of Arsenal or
Manchester United, Dave's team of choice was the ever so slightly less
glamorous Bromley Football Club - one of the last genuinely amateur
football teams left, fighting for survival in the lowest non-league
division.
This book is the story of Bromley's worst ever season. It is a funny and
heart-warming tale of football at the very bottom: Dave turns up to each
match with his football boots in his bag, just in case the team are a
player short; the crowd is always announced as 400 as no-one can be
bothered to count; the team ship so many goals that in one match, the
taunting opposition fans actually lose count of the score.
It's easy being a football fan when your team are always winning. The
Bromley Boys is the touching true story about supporting a club through
thin and even thinner: proof that the more your team may lose on the
pitch, the more there is to gain on the terraces.