# Game of Throw-ins

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- Book: [Game of Throw-ins](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-ocarroll-kelly/game-of-throw-ins) ([Game of Throw-ins.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-ocarroll-kelly/game-of-throw-ins.md))
- Authors: [Ross O'Carroll-Kelly](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-ocarroll-kelly)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4488-346-2
- Published: 2016-09-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

I was a rugby player with a great future behind me. A 35-year-old father-of-five with an expanding waistline, who was trying to survive the bloody battlefield we call everyday life. My son was locked in a violent turf war with a rival Love/Hate tour operator, my daughter was in love with a boy who looked like Justin Bieber and my old dear was about to walk up the aisle with a 92-year-old billionaire who thought it was still 1936. I was, like, staring down the barrel of middle age with the contentment of knowing that I was the greatest Irish rugby player who no one in Ireland had ever actually heard of. Until a chance conversation with an old Jesuit missionary made me realize that it wasn't enough. I was guided, as if by GPS, to a muddy field in - let's be honest - Ballybrack. And there I finally discovered my destiny - to keep a struggling Seapoint team in Division 2B of the All Ireland League. Or die trying.