SuitabookMaking a team after exclusion
Ahlberg and friends are not selected for the official school teams, so they enter their own team in the Coronation football competition.
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Allan Ahlberg - Author
Expect a football-centred childhood story rather than an account of Burglar Bill. Its unofficial team, friendships and setbacks provide comic energy, while the reflective voice gives the book a poignant, nostalgic dimension.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceExpect a football-centred childhood story rather than an account of Burglar Bill. Its unofficial team, friendships and setbacks provide comic energy, while the reflective voice gives the book a poignant, nostalgic dimension.
Ahlberg and friends are not selected for the official school teams, so they enter their own team in the Coronation football competition.
Be aware that one reader reports a disturbing late episode involving a child needing a limb amputated.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.