The camaraderie of grass root football celebrated in a new book!
In a unique and honest book, a Sunday League player-manager
has written about the reality of football at the grass roots level. The new
book, called Park Life, is a celebration of local football in the
Author Peter Roberts has lived in the
“I still love the game as much now as I did when I started
playing aged 7, and want to continue playing for as long as I can,” says Peter,
who works at the
“I feel that the camaraderie within grass roots football –
in the Rhondda and all over the
Every weekend, on football pitches across the country, dedicated sportsmen and women still play real football – the grass roots game: where you have to pay to play, hope a referee turns up, change in a shed, play on a rain-sodden cabbage patch and take your own kit home to wash.
The Foreword is written by Nathan Jones, ex-Manager of Stoke
City Football Club, whose love of football began on the fields of the
“I have found that the cut and thrust of football in the
Park Life is a celebration of those Sunday League footballers; a million miles away from the pampered prima donnas of the Premier League, but whose defeats are just as painful and whose successes are, for them, every bit as glorious.