In these days of oligarch owners, superstar managers and players on sky-high wages, the tide is turning against the big teams as fans search for football with a soul. Enter non-league football. The author spends a season among the characters who inhabit this world. In this book, he presents the win-or-sink drama of non-league football.

For football fans who hungrily feed on gossip and rumour, Christmas comes twice a year - once in August and again in January.