Another Saturday & Sweet F.A
by Calvin Wade
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Added on February 9, 2026
Description
In the summer of 2013, Calvin Wade, a man with football in his blood and very little in his wallet, decided to embark upon an F.A Cup adventure that he and his father had discussed for over thirty years. The idea was to head to a game in the Extra Preliminary Round of the F.A Cup and then follow the winners of each game, up and down the country, through every round, until eventually reaching the bright lights of Wembley and the F.A Cup Final. This is not only an autobiographical account of a nine month journey through the 2013-14 footballing season, especially the F.A Cup, but it is also a story about family, friendship, financial struggle and a footballing past. It is about tales new and old with English Peles, a man known as 'The Casual Hopper' and football fans of all ages throughout the British Isles. With a foreword by former F.A Cup winning manager, Joe Royle, 'Another Saturday & Sweet F.A' seeks to show that Bill Shankly was right after all and sometimes football can be more important than life and death.* Fifty pence from the sale of the paperback and Kindle versions of this book will be donated to The Christie Charity. The charity raises money to fund projects at The Christie Hospital, Manchester, which are outside the scope of the NHS.
Reader Reviews
Oh I loved this book, infact I loved it even more than book 1 - ‘Another Saturday& Sweet FA’. Who would have thought that by the end I would be willing the outcome to go the right way for a team I had never heard of.Wonderfully written with a real sense of passion for football at a local level. It so reminded me of watching my other half playing the sport he loves so much on wet and windy Saturday afternoons on Clifton Downs, Bristol.Now off to google North Ferriby for an update 😁
If you love football with all the associated smells, sounds, sights, tastes and emotions, you will love this second helping from CW.This is the real game where players play football after a day at work. The real game where the hard, behind the scenes, work is done by willing volunteers. The real game where a bad tackle is shaken off, not rolled off. Calvin has captured the raw emotion of the game that exists in the wide variety of supporters, Football is a game of hopes and dreams, not multimill
A Fantastic football Fairytale Calvin wade returns again with his second book in the "Another Saturday and sweet FA" series. instead of an FA cup journey Calvin and Alan set out on part 2 of what will now become a trilogy by following a team through the FA Trophy but things soon turn out very differently as the duo develop an unlikely soft spot for a village team.Like the first book this is a well written tale of two men's love for the beautiful game and it's passionate fans of all different clu
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