The Glory Game Spurs Come Calling by Tony Hanna

Joe is an Irish teenage boy who lives an anonymous life in the heart of a Dublin housing estate. The arrival of a football scout with an offer to go to Spurs sets in motion a chain of events that opens up painful events in his father's past life and holds out the promise of soccer stardom. The future is uncertain and it will mean leaving behind Helen but Joe has a rare talent and the glory game has its own magnetism