ALAN BLACK - Kick the Balls
Alan Black is the author of Kick the Balls ( Hudson Street Press/Penguin)
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.
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, 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, 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.”
can’t wait to read the book!
Alan, Are you the Alan Black who wrote about Tartain Day ( and your other humerous experiences after receiving your US Citizenship) in the April, 2001 “Christian Science Monitor”?
I’m also a proud Scot - from a way, way, way back in the 1730’s sometime.
George Willson Black
Quality big man.
Alan: Congratulations on the launch of your Penguin Book, KICK THE BALLS. I hoped to get over to the Edinburgh Castle tonight to do the honors personally, but I was not up to, came the moment.
Good luck on sales. Thank you for past favors. I shall purchase a copy of the book, and I promise to review it.
All the best.
Alex Fraser — Macresarf1 (Epinions);
— Glenn Anders (Wellesnet.org)
Alan ya big eejit. I’m so glad your doing well in America. God we used to have some laughs back when you were a Glasgow Uni student and I was the worlds worst joiner who loved partaking in the lifestyle of the University student.
Lifestyle being , mad parties , long lies and rebelling against everything just for the hell of it.
An old friend Cait gave me this link as she was talking to your brother Kenny.
I’ve been living in Australia now for over 10years.I hope you can rmeber me as I’ve got some photo’s from the daft days which I’d love to e-mail to you.
Once again.Well done big man.I’m going to order the book but only if you come over to Auz and autograph it specially.
I might play you the Elvis 68 comeback special in glorious widescreen ha ha.
Ooops ,hope this doesn’t ruin your street cred Alan.
orra best
Jim Wyper
Jimmy Wyper! What a happy day! How are you mate? The Elvis 68 comeback special is spot on. It’s been that long, has it? Up at the flat, sunny Glasgow, you at the Apollo and the Skids, once romantically linked to Liz Fraser, you Grangemouth lovers. Has Os being kind to you? Tell me about your life.
Now I have a reason to go to the southern hemisphere. Married to Ana, fourteen years now, two wanes, Grant and Angie, spent my whole working life in pubs, that made sense.
maxwellb4@gmail.com, send me pics, I’m scared.
Hi Alan
Did you get my e-mail?