The first four (of 12) titles in the Girls FC series come out next week and I can’t wait! The launch will be held at the National Football Museum in Preston, Lancashire. Walker, my publishers, have been brilliant, arranging for 17- year old freestyler, Robyn Clancy (who appeared on Wayne Rooney’s Street Soccer programme) to perform while I’m signing books.
The museum is such an appropriate venue for the launch. Not only is it situated next to Deepdale, Preston North End’s ground, home of icons such as Sir Tom Finney, but also my fictional team, the Parrs, is named after Preston-born Lily Parr, legendary female footballer.
If any of you reading this love football and want somewhere to go this summer, you could easily spend a day at the museum. Its got some amazing and unique artifacts from Tommy Lawton’s ashes, Maradona’s ‘Hand-of’-God’ shirt (1986) to Pickles’s collar (Pickles was the dog who found the stolen Jules Rimet World Cup Trophy under a hedge). There are also several references on display of that other noble and magnificent club, Huddersfield Town FC. Best of all, it’s free entry.
If you can’t visit, check out the museum’s website: www.nationalfootballmuseum.com
Statue of Sir Tom Finney outside the football museum