# The Boyhood of Burglar Bill

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- Book: [The Boyhood of Burglar Bill](https://www.bookquiver.com/allan-ahlberg/the-boyhood-of-burglar-bill) ([The Boyhood of Burglar Bill.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/allan-ahlberg/the-boyhood-of-burglar-bill.md))
- Authors: [Allan Ahlberg](https://www.bookquiver.com/allan-ahlberg)
- Publisher: Puffin
- ISBN: 978-01-4132-142-4
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2008-03-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Coronation Year, 1953, and in Oldbury a Coronation football competition is organized. The boys from the bottom pitch get a team up, but there's no chance they'll win, of course. They're just the odds and sods – one of them is even a girl – but they're all football crazy and ready and eager to beat off the opposition. A funny and moving story of football and friendship in a world when the streets were full of kids and empty of cars. Not only for boys – and girls – of 9+, there's a real pull of nostalgia for adults as well. And, of course, for all lovers of football, whether on the pitch or in the park.