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    The Unlucky Eleven
    The Unlucky Eleven
    The Unlucky Eleven
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    The Unlucky Eleven

    By Phil Earle and Steve May

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    A fun football tale for little readers packed with laughs, friendship and a spot of superstition …

    Ridiculous injuries … strange illnesses … cancelled games … Everything's going wrong for the Saints this season, and Stanley's team-mates believe they finally know why. Their football kit is cursed! But the team's attempts to break the curse take things from bad to worse. Soon, they're ready to call it quits. Stanley's still got some tricks up his sleeve … but will his curse-cracking ideas save the team in time for the last game of the season?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateOct 1, 2022
    ISBN9781800902244
    The Unlucky Eleven
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    Phil Earle

    Born and raised in the north of England, Phil Earle is the author of numerous acclaimed, award-winning books for children and teenagers. He has worked as a carer, a dramatherapist, a bookseller and a publisher, and loves talking at schools and festivals around the world. His novel When The Sky Falls won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award and the British Book Award for Children’s Fiction. He lives on the side of a very steep hill with his wife, their five children and two dogs.

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      Book preview

      The Unlucky Eleven - Phil Earle

      For my son, Stan of the Saints.

      Proud of you pal …

      CONTENTS

      Title Page

      Dedication

      1 What a clod!

      2 Cursed!

      3 What is that whiff?

      4 Bubbling blisters

      5 Stan needs a plan …

      6 A magic elixir

      7 Bad to WORSE!

      8 I’m not wearing that!

      9 Quitting time

      10 Stanley plays a blinder

      11 A game of two halves

      Copyright

      CHAPTER 1

      WHAT A CLOD!

      As the ball left Stanley’s boot, the world stood still.

      The grass stopped growing, the crowd stopped yelling, a small dog froze with its leg cocked against the goalpost.

      This was the moment Stanley and his team had been waiting for. The moment when they would score at last. But just as the ball was about to find the corner of the net, it hit an enormous clod of earth and spun at a right angle, away from the goal and out for a throw-in.

      The world came alive again. Even the dog showed its disgust by breaking wind.

      Stanley fell to his knees, not caring that they happened to

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