And the Big Men Fly is an Australia-based play by Alan Hopgood, written in 1963, and has been adapted to numerous media including a TV series and film.

The coach of the Crows football team, J.J. Forbes, sends his assistant, Wally, out to find a new player for the big season championship which was to start in 2 weeks.

To start with convincing Lil, they tell her that she will get all sorts of nice things and they even give her a fur coat.

He is kept private from the public as Wally and J.J want to make a big showcase on the first day of the football championship.

J.J and Wally start to get very stressed out and worried that he won't do anything, until J.J sends Wally out onto the field to see what was wrong with him and found out that it was partly because he was wearing football boots, which he much disliked, and partly because Achilles can't play or kick when he's not angry.

J.J then told Wally to send Lil out onto the field and make up a story about the Williamses so that he would get all angry and start to run and kick the ball around.

Lil has to keep making up stories, and telling Achilles that the Williamses said bad stuff about him when they actually didn't.

This plan by Wobbly had already been working excellently as he wanted to tire Achilles out before the big game so that he couldn't play.

On the night before the big game, Les Williams gave up and decided that he didn't want to fight anymore – this is when Achilles found out that his best mate, Milly the horse, had died back at home on the farm.

Achilles doesn't want to play the game when he gets to the field on the big day, but luckily enough, Les Williams heard on the radio who rang him up and told him all the lies – it was Wobbly Coates.

He thinks about it and suddenly decides that he is going to get the score even, and then kicks the ball straight up into the commentary box where Wobbly Coates is sitting, and hopefully, it hits him and injures him.

The grand final game ends in a draw and is rescheduled to next week without the participation of the new team recruit, Achilles.