The novel is a comic fantasy that describes in the form of an official history how a village football club progressed through the FA Cup to beat Rangers in the final at Wembley Stadium.

In 1930 as an unqualified 18-year-old teacher he played a season for South Milford White Rose when they won a football knockout tournament.

[5] More recently it was dramatised by Brian Wright for performance by an amateur youth theatre, with a cast of sixty, in Northamptonshire.

[6] The play was performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2011 by one actor, Mark Jardine of Lichfield Garrick Theatre Repertory Company, who provided all the voices and characterisations.

[citation needed] In this version the beaten finalists were Wolverhampton Wanderers.