Eoin Madden and his friends are back at school and it looks like it will be a fun year with new subjects and activities to try. After all his years on the Junior Cup team, Eoin is looking forward to a break from rugby this year; when there's a chance to play soccer instead, he jumps at it! But it's hard to set up a football team at a rugby-mad school like Castlerock – can the boys do it? And who is the ghostly footballer with links to Dalymount Park that Eoin and his friends keep meeting? Eoin usually sees ghosts when trouble is brewing, so is something wrong at the football grounds? From the Busby Babes of the 1950s to the Castlerock Red Rockets, football links the generations.
"Good stories for the sports-mad young folk are hard to find, but you can't do better than this … Full of family, friends, football and intriguing detail"
Fallen Star Stories
"In the eighth book in the Rugby Spirit series, Eoin Madden has decided he wants a break from rugby after so much time on his Junior Cup team. A chance encounter with a ghostly footballer who seemingly has connections to Dalymount Park keeps Eoin and his friends guessing. Gerard Siggins's love of sport and the stories of teamwork that permeate football and rugby make for another wonderful adventur
CBI Deliver the Joy of Reading
"these books are such a delight, full of sport and history and mystery. They'd nearly make you want to be 11 again"
