Ambition, betrayal and football

Banksie and MacB have spent all summer working to get into the football team. They trade tricks and technique. The pay-off is polished skills and the two of them playing together, tight as a drum.

A fortune teller promises that they will both be captain. It's a load of rubbish, naturally. No one plays better than Duncan King, captain and star striker. But then Duncan has a terrible accident. If it is an accident ...

Banksie starts to have doubts. Is it fate or is it MacB?

A highly original reworking of Macbeth, this is football at its dramatic and feverish best.

‘this is a great book for boys wondering how to pass the time until the new season starts…This is a book with a great deal more skill and pace than the English team playing in Euro 2000 earlier this year’ Kids Out