As well as being a huge football fan, Tom Palmer has an international reputation in reader development. He is a coordinator of the Reading Partners consortium, works with The Reading Agency, Booktrust and the National Literacy Trust, and has been the official writer for the Premier League Reading Stars scheme for five years. He also teaches annually for the Arvon Foundation, and has travelled around the world to train librarians and teachers in techniques to encourage boys to read. This is his first book for Puffin.

Praise for other books by Tom Palmer:'Tom Palmer is a kind of missionary sent by the Premier League . . . a clever book' – Daily Mirror'Gripping and witty . . . Shaking Hands with Michael Rooneyis quite simply the perfect soccer yarn' – Robert Swindells, author of Stone Cold