When Fair Play Publishing floated the idea of an online football magazine to get us through the lockdown phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, I was straight on to it. The theme for Edition 1 was ‘old soccer and new football’, and the contributors could decide how they interpreted that theme. The resulting piece compares theContinue reading “Play on …”
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Since March 2019, the Unashamed Football Novels by Texi Smith have captured the imagination of readers worldwide. In 2021 Anna Black got us excited for the FIFA Womens World Cup. Jarrod Black returned in December 2022 with another fast-paced adventure in Chasing Pack and in 2024, the focus turned to Abebi, a Matildas star of the future. While we await the next adventure of the Black family, check out Texi's first non-fiction work, an account of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 2022, titled 'Metro, this way!' Out now on Amazon.