# Nowhere to Run

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- Book: [Nowhere to Run](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-sayer/nowhere-to-run) ([Nowhere to Run.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-sayer/nowhere-to-run.md))
- Authors: [Jonathan Sayer](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-sayer)
- Publisher: transworld_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 6 h 8 min
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sayer
- ISBN: 978-15-2990-744-5
- Published: 2023-08-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 6 h 8 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. On the second oldest football pitch in the world, Jonathan Sayer stands atop a beer crate to address the assembled fans of Ashton United FC. As his initial optimism and disillusionment begin to slip through his fingers, the new co-chairman and co-owner (alongside his dad) starts to realise the scale of the challenge ahead. Battling to keep the club afloat, a record number of games without a win sees hope turn to despair as Jonathan contends with a mutiny from a group of octogenarian supporters, constant battles with the local council and a star striker who arrives on crutches despite somehow passing his medical. As the on-pitch form continues to deteriorate and rifts appear between him and his father, Jonathan begins to make some increasingly desperate decisions: dressing as a seven-foot robin in the local market in an effort to drum up larger crowds, sinking his savings into an ever spiralling wage bill and even contemplating bringing in a local priest to lift the 'Boxing Day Curse' by performing a late-night exorcism on the pitch. Chronicling the euphoric highs and bitter disappointments of the less glamourous side of the beautiful game, Nowhere to Run is the hilarious, heart-warming tale of life in the hot seat of a non-league football club. ©2023 Jonathan Sayer (P)2023 Penguin Audio