C is for coaches. Foul and Fair, on one level, is about football coaches; it’s about Kieran and James, about the clash of two footballing philosophies, the desire to win versus the importance of giving everyone the chance to play. After seven years running a team for West Moors YFC, I now divi...

Geoff Mann used to be the lead singer with 80s neo-prog rockers Twelfth Night. I saw them play the Marquee Club in London – one of my earliest gigs – although not until after Mann’s departure from the line up. It seems that he had grown tired of fronting a less-than commercial band...

B is for Birnham. Hayley Birnham saved Foul and Fair. The original version of the story, which went through several drafts and got as far as me sending it out (unsuccessfully) on submission, featured James but no Hayley. The whole novel was told with him as the lead character, with no digressions fr...

Five weekends, plenty of conversations and lots of football to watch. My Foul and Fair pre-launch book tour of football tournaments came to an end on Saturday at the 72-team MAN v FAT National tournament in Telford. This was the only part of the tour that involved a significant distance to travel, b...