"Full Moon Fever at the World Cup"

Today's book under discussion was my first ever self-published book in April 2023 and here's a link to the paperback version:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C2SG69L3

The following is taken directly from the book and from part of the excerpt read here on this video:

"Full Moon Fever at the World Cup"

"It’s 9.17pm on a bitter and wintery English evening, and under the fullest of moons. The fever took hold earlier, not of your humble football correspondent, good God no, I was busy cleaning the bathroom and if I’m as good a writer as I delude myself into thinking that I am, I’ll return to this particular subject shortly. No, the fever has taken hold of my Sports Editor. That or the vast quantity of alcohol the poor wretch has consumed today and all because there wasn’t any football to watch from the World Cup. He’s passed out now thankfully, a slovenly mess in the corner of the room watching reruns of Austria and West Germany from the 1982 World Cup. “Why won’t they think of the fans?” I hear him mumble, but that’s full moon fever for you. I’m going to let him sleep it off. I need some peace and quiet before I drop the bombshell on the drunken old soak that there isn’t a game tomorrow either.

Kids today are just innocent fools aren’t they?

Seeking that otherworldly high from an alphabetised drug at hugely inflated prices from the guy next door’s best friend he used to work with?

For the birds my friends.

For the birds.

If only they knew that locking yourself in a bathroom for an hour with an industrialised strength limescale remover ensured you not only see that unicorns are real, you actually get to pet them, tickle their ears and brush their rainbow coloured manes. I emerged from that bathroom earlier arm in arm with the ghosts of Diego Maradona and Lev Yashin as elves from the underworld of the 8th Dimension convinced me that Geoff Hurst’s winning goal in the 1966 World Cup final had indeed crossed the line. And if you thought that was strange, you should have seen what I saw in that glorious if slightly discombobulating hour I spent dancing that fine line between industrial intoxication and insanity. I saw things you wouldn’t believe, like Attack Ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion or beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate, but all those moments will be lost in time, like the tears of a defeated team at the end of a World Cup Final.

I blame the fever and I fear it taking hold of me now too".

From the dedication, thanks and introduction covered in Part 1, Part 3 will also cover the near end tournament rest days that came before the Semi-Finals and a World Cup Final for the ages that I cover at length in Part 4.

All of which is to come!

As you would expect I'm incredibly proud of this self-published book and following over a decade of writing many hundreds of blog articles on many and varied themes, I've finally found my calling!

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