From the author of Ultimate Football Heroes comes the first book in the new Johnny Ball series, perfect reading for football-mad kids.

Johnny Ball LOVES football. He loves reading about it, talking about it, watching it – and he loves playing it too. He’s a good player, but not quite good enough to make the Tissbury Primary School team for the super-huge Under-11s County Cup. But never mind, because their clueless coach, Mr Mann, has a special role for Johnny: ASSISTANT MANAGER! With only Grandpa George’s old scarf, a "pocket" notebook and his brilliant football brain, can our football genius lead the Tissbury Primary team all the way to County Cup glory?

• New funny fiction series perfect for fans of Kid Normal, Football School, Tom Palmer's Football Academy and Charlie Fry. 
• Written by the bestselling author of the Ultimate Football Heroes series of biographies, which have sold 400,000 copies through TCM. 
• Contemporary cast of school characters and fun, accessible writing style will make the series appeal to football-mad kids up and down the country.