"It is simply the best football based work of fiction" - David Taylor, The London Magazine
 
"He delivers, with a kind of deceptive gaiety some murderous blows at the fatheads who populate professional football." - Benny Green
 
The title really is what this book is about, a fantastical ambition, but most importantly a mix of diverse characters who achieve it. Following the local school master's adapted teaching 'Theory', inspirational team performances, exemplary captaincy and wily chairmanship, with great good fortune the Wanderers play for the greatest domestic cup prize in club football.
 
"Book writing can be a tedious job needing some incentive to keep one at it. The impulse here was 'can this unbelievable feat be made to sound like the truth even though it didn't happen?' So I stacked the cards - a foreigner with remarkable theories, two young men with good reason for having quit top-class football, a Chairman of Napoleonic ability. Then I dredged up memories of 1930 when I was an unqualified teacher, 18 years old and playing that single season for South Milford White Rose when we won a final which never ended (pitch invasion and furious fights are not new things). I learnt much of rural life during that long-gone autumn, winter and early spring. But is this story believable? Ah, it all depends upon whether you want to believe it." - JL Carr