Download or read book Football Is a Funny Old Game written by Kenneth Burke and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurie Top is a talented footballer with a wayward personality. He loves women and has disastrous dalliances with a Page 3 girl and a Miss World. Risk is Laurie’s buzzword, gambling is his personal philosophy and he is up to his neck in debt to his bookmaker. Now Laurie’s football manager is becoming tired of his millionaire ways, and a clash is brewing between the old and new generation of football – as the dour manager threatens to call time on his playboy lifestyle. Football is a Funny Old Game is the second book by Kenneth Burke and this satire on the beautiful game contains home truths about modern football.