25 Ryde Road (PO Box 321) Pymble, NSW 2073, Australia Canada HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Adobe Digital Edition September 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-194203-7 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 About the Publisher Australia HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book onscreen. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Copyright © 2009 by Terry and Lyn Pratchett. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. ![]() Because the thing about football-the most important thing about football-is that it is never just about football.Ĭredits Jacket design and illustration by Scott McKowan Copyright This book is a work of fiction. As the big match approaches, these four lives are entangled and changed forever. ![]() Nutt (about whom no one knows very much, including Mr. ![]() Meanwhile, Trev (a handsome street urchin and a right good kicker) falls hard for kitchen maid Juliet (beautiful, dim, and perhaps the greatest fashion model there ever was), and Juliet's best pal, UU night cook Glenda (homely, sensible, and a baker of jolly good pies) befriends the mysterious Mr. Oh, and on top of that, they must win a football match without using magic. To begin with, they have to figure out just what it is that makes this sport-soccer with a bit of rugby thrown in-so popular with Ankh-Morporkians of all ages and social strata. And so when Lord Ventinari, the city's benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully that the university revive an erstwhile tradition and once again put forth a football team composed of faculty, students, and staff, the wizards of UU find themselves in a quandary. The wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things-wisdom, magic, and their love of teatime-but athletics is most assuredly not on the list.
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