FOOTBALL FABLES: The Book
The First Eleven are in print and available now
Football Fables The First Eleven are now available in print! Just in time for Christmas!
Click on the link to buy!
Football Fables: The First Eleven
It’s perfect for the Christmas stocking of family and friends if they like football. Or even as a little gift for yourself! Please do spread the word, share the link and even leave a rating or review.
If you want to receive brand new fables first, you’ll still be able to subscribe to them here on leewellings.substack.com. The latest fable is Monblu, about a man who throws his mobile out of the window and has his batteries recharged through conversations with strangers. (link at bottom of post).
Best wishes to all readers, Lee x
BOOK DETAILS:
FOOTBALL FABLES: The First Eleven
1.The Footballer Who Kicked a Tortoise
2. The Man Who Murdered Football
3. The Check
4. Ref!
5. Lazy Susan
6. A Tale of Two Clubs
7. Superstition
8. Tie a Yellow Scarf
9. A Fable of New York
10. Golden Eras
11. I Wear Eleven
FOOTBALL FABLES (The back page blurb)
Are you one of the many millions who love football?
Do you get excited on matchday? With your lucky team shirt and lucky socks.
Has your club ever done something magical? Been part of a fairy tale?
Do you sing your heart out? Or shout at the ref and commentators through the telly?
Do you feel the game lost its way through greed? Has the game gone?
Do you wonder why everyone else is losing their heads on social media?
Are you football crazy? Or do you gave to tolerate those who are mad about the game?
From the mind of author, sports journalist and & broadcaster Lee Wellings. Welcome to Football fables
Eleven unique stories with dry wit and rampant imagination. Fables to make you laugh, cry and see the so-called ‘Beautiful Game’ in a new light.
“Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man, and fables tell us about a million men.”
GK Chesterton
LEE WELLINGS INFO
A former sports and programme editor at Sky News, ITN and the BBC, Lee spent many years as a global sports news correspondent and film maker, always looking for the human story behind the action on the field of play.
His first book The Dilly Dong Bell (A Wake-Up Call for Sport) was published in 2022, demonstrating how sport lost its way through greed and mismanagement.
Lee was tackling the big issues in sport in his Substack.com column Why Sport Matters before his writing style - warm, engaging and colourful - took him into fiction, and fables, writing under the alter ego ‘The Fable Guy’. Receive brand new fables first via LeeWellings.Substack.com if you take out an annual or monthly paying subscription.
The fables are subversive and tackle what’s wrong in football, sport and society, but ultimately Lee seeks the light. His fables will leave you uplifted. And there are more being written.
The print version of Football Fables has been made possible by the exceptional publishing, design and editing work of the team at Chris Green Media (CGM). The vibrant cover is by Brendan McMahon of Classic Lines Design, and huge thanks as always to David Miles for his copy editing and editorial guidance.
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