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My latest book (published September 2025) is another collection of football short stories, The Last Amateur (Halcyon Publishing), and is "inspired by the amorality, the greed, and the somehow still ir…

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Author of Narcoball: Love, Death and Football in Escobar’s Colombia.

New book Killing Maradona : How Cocaine, the Camorra and Crime Corrupted Football's Greatest Talent out 21.05.2026.

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