There's Only Two David Beckhams
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
Re-live the glory and the heartache of England's greatest ever game - and THAT World Cup Final back in 2022.
Well now it’s 2022 and the discussion is finally over, England have eleven players as good as any of them. The unbeatable national team have reached the final of the Qatar World Cup. But one journalist is convinced there is a scandalous secret behind England’s incredible form. His lifetime’s dream is to see the Three Lions win the World Cup. But if he pursues and exposes the shocking truth, his beloved England could be sent home in disgrace.
Suddenly this is much more than England vs Germany; it’s Love vs Duty, it’s Truth vs Happiness.
The pressure of the penalty shoot-out is nothing compared to this.
There’s Only Two David Beckhams is John O’Farrell’s love-letter to football; part-detective story, part-sports memoir, part-satire on the whole corrupt FIFA circus; it just made the final for the funniest football fiction ever written...
Customer Reviews
Great little book, disappointing ending
There is no doubting that this book is funny, it really is. It was a great read to begin with, and although I twigged 'early doors' what the link to the previous incarnations was, I still enjoyed the story unraveling.
What let it down for me was when the scandal broke, not the first one, that was always going to happen. The second scandal just pushed it over the edge for me from a credible funny well thought out book, to a daft scenario of one-up-manship with the old enemy, and them seemingly beating us again.
I kept expecting the author to wake up in the luxury toilet cubicle he was hiding in, and the chain of events unraveling about how the previous incarnations knew nothing about this scandal, that it was all a Labour initiative to win back their government seat.
Either way, the book was a bit of fun, I get that, and well worth the £5 I paid for it, it could have just been finished that little bit better in my opinion.