How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup
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The fourth novel by J.L. Carr, published in 1975. The novel is a comic fantasy that describes in the form of an official history how a village football club progressed through the FA Cup to beat Glasgow Rangers F.C. in the final at Wembley Stadium.
| How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup | |
 Cover of first edition - 1975 |
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| Author | J.L. Carr |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Comic Fiction |
| Publisher | London Magazine Editions |
| Publication date | 1975 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 124 |
| ISBN | 904388026 |
| Preceded by | The Harpole Report |
| Followed by | A Month in the Country |
Like all of Carr's novels, it is grounded in his own experience. In 1930 as an unqualified 18-year old teacher he played a season for South Milford White Rose when they won a football knockout tournament. [1]
Described as the weakest of Carr's books it sold 2,124 copies and was remaindered. [2] The novel was adapted as a play for eight actors and was performed at the Worcester Swan Theatre, the Leatherhead Thorndike Theatre and the Mermaid Theatre, London where it ran for six weeks. [3].
Carr bought back the rights to the novel in 1992 and reprinted it in an edition of 2,000 copies as the fourth novel published by his own imprint, The Quince Tree Press.
[edit] References
- ^ Carr, J.L. How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup. Foreword. Kettering: The Quince Tree Press.
- ^ Rogers, B. (2003). The Last Englishman. The Life of J.L. Carr. London: Aurum Press
- ^ Carr, J.L. (1991) The Passport Interview. Huntingdon, Cambridge: Passport magazine, issue 2.
