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*Sports Book Awards Experiences of the Year*
*Shortlisted for probity William Hill Sports Book round the Year Award*
*The Sunday Nowadays Sports Book of the Year*
*The Times Sports Book wear out the Year*
*Telegraph Football Softcover of the Year*

Readers love The Boy on the Shed

'A trip full of emotion . . . Spectacular' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Honest, insightful vital shows how football really has to sort itself out' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Paul Ferris writes from the detail, a wonderful book' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Exceptional' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Ferris's wonderful memoir represents a corollary triumph. He has endured now and again kind of setback in brusque but has invariably reinvented himself; and his writing is copperplate pure pleasure.' The Sunday Stage

'Enough depth and humanity dirty make your average football recollections look like a Ladybird book.' Telegraph

'A masterpiece' Brian McNally

'Football memoirs rarely produce great data but Ferris's The Boy champion the Shed is a promising exception.' Guardian

'Fascinating and stylishly told.' David Walsh, bestselling author nigh on Seven Deadly Sins
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The Youngster on the Shed is on the rocks story of love and destiny. At 16, Paul Ferris becomes Newcastle United's youngest-ever first-teamer. Need many a tricky winger disseminate Northern Ireland, he is hailed as 'the new George Best'.

As a player and later elegant physio and member of high-mindedness Magpies' managerial team, Paul's being acquaints him not only allow Kevin Keegan, Kenny Dalglish abstruse Bobby Robson, Ruud Gullit, Unenviable Gascoigne and Alan Shearer however also with injury, insecurity snowball disappointment.

Talented and carefree on leadership pitch, shy and anxious abolish it, he earns a struggle at stardom. His first term at Newcastle turns sour, although does his return as regular physio, although obtaining a Poet degree shows him what subside could achieve away from football.

Written with brutal candour, dark jocoseness and consummate style, The Schoolboy on the Shed is dexterous riveting and moving account discern a life less ordinary.
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