Kick the Balls is out now in paperback.( Plume/Penguin)

In bookstores everywhere. Or at amazon.com

Kick the Balls is the story of the worst soccer team in the history of the game. The reader should expect some heavy tackling, clumsy cultural foot stamping and decidedly dangerous challenges from behind, on various political correctness. If you read this book, wear shin guards.

To listen to an excerpt from Kick the Balls, check out my website at alanblack.info

Trainspotting author, Irvine Welsh, says Kick the Balls is “a hilarious and utterly irreverent tale of a Scotsman coaching in the junior ’soccer’ leagues in the USA. It is the funniest book you will ever read about what the insignificants in the rest of world call ‘football’. This tale of cross-cultural chaos also shows you why America,and most of all, Scotland, will never be succesful on the world stage of the beautiful game.“

Beth Lisick, best-selling author of Helping Me Help Myself, says, “Alan Black makes me laugh in a way no one else can. He’s so brutally funny that I worry a little. I think, ‘Someone’s feelings might be getting hurt here,’ but really I don’t give a shit because I am laughing so hard. Nothing gets by him, and that’s a scary thought.”

Po Bronson, best-selling author of What Should I Do with My Life says of Kick the Balls, “You might think you’ve heard the usual criticisms of modern parenting and what kids are like because of it. You might occasionally long for the good ole’ days when kids played games without a parent there to cheer and console. But not until you read Alan Black’s savagely hilarious Kick the Balls does it all come clear – not just how strange a time we live in today, but how strange it was back then, too.”