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|sort=Kick Off

|title=The Kick Off

|date=June 2007

|isbn=978-0439944304

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Jamie Johnson has just moved schools. He was captain of his previous school's football team and he is desperate to make his mark at Kingfield. Jamie lives and breathes football. He doesn't think of anything else. And he's determined to prove his undoubted ability. For Jamie is talented. Quick, tactically aware and committed, he has the potential to go all the way. But has he got the temperament? Sent off twice in his first two matches at Kingfield, it seems perhaps he hasn't. Jamie doesn't blame himself you see - he blames his mother for making him do his homework, a team-mate for selfish play, an opponent for winding him up. It's always someone else's fault and never Jamie's. Jamie's grandfather, Mike, just might have the answer in a training manual written years ago for him by one of the country's best football scouts...