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Injury Time
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed by that attitude. I can assure you it's much more important than that.' - Bill Shankly
What Shankly said isn't even half-true. In fact, it's bollocks. Football isn't the be-all and end-all of everything. If nothing else, I know that much.
As a player, Thom Callaghan was defined by the winning goal he scored in an FA Cup final. The goal wasn't the blessing he imagined it would be. His whole career was defined by that brief moment of glory.
With his playing days over, Callaghan, still a local hero, is tempted back to his old club as caretaker manager. His task: to rescue it from relegation. He's got the job solely on the recommendation of his former boss and mentor Frank Mallory, now desperately ill and responsible for the team's precipitous decline.
Callaghan is pitched into the Premier League during the last months of the 1996-1997 season, where - among reputations more gilded than his own - he finds himself pitted against the likes of Alex Ferguson's Manchester United, chasing their fourth title in five years, and also one of the newest recruits to the English game, Arsene Wenger.
Can Callaghan save his club from what seems the inevitability of the drop? Does Mallory - eccentric, inspirational and manipulative - even want him to succeed? What if the prize of a personal triumph isn't worth it in the end?
Injury Time is the first novel from the multiple award-winning sportswriter Duncan Hamilton.
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- Carl S
- 10-11-21
Authentic and enjoyable
Good story with a nice mix of real names and grounds from my younger days and football of a different era. A bit cliched and predictable, but that only really added to the feeling of authenticity and enjoyment. By the end I’m sure you’ll want Cally to get that all important point…
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- John
- 27-08-21
For football aficionados
As a football fan I enjoyed ‘Injury Time’, but found it strangely dated. Although a new book and set mostly in the 1990s, everything about it smacks of the 1970s, even the narrator’s voice. So, a strange book to see published in modern times, but for those of us of these earlier eras, a good read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-07-21
Wow!
A joy and unmitigated pleasure from start to finish. The only disappointment was that it ended. For every lover of 70s and 80s football but so much more than that too. A treat that took me back decades and made them seem as new as tomorrow’s headlines. Don’t miss out. Get it now !!
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