KPC Exall – author of Who Killed English Football? An Analysis of the State of English Football – is challenging the status quo by raising issues “deliberately ignored” by the football establishment.
His Football Satires Trilogy series tracks the adventures of modern professional football in “a wholly original” way.
Daring to broach the subjects no other football pundit will tackle, KPC Exall delivers through his trilogy an antidote to existing conformist football literature.
“It seems that most books published about football are generally uncritical of the situation,” he says.
“Such things as the alarming number of foreign players in the top English teams are being ignored. It is a situation that damages English prospects, yet the media is not looking at it – there is a suspicious conspiracy of silence.
“I wanted to address these important matters, but in a satirical way. The result is my trilogy of books, which parodies the ins and outs of the football world.”
Described as a cross between Yes Minister, The Thick of It and Bodies, these satirical plays expose the "farcical world of money, power and sport" in professional English football.
They give life to the stereotypical characters football fans read about every day - revenue-driven TV networks, money-hungry players, managers and agents, club owners, power-thirsty governing bodies and officials.
“I have created different tribes of characters to express the various viewpoints of the multi-faceted world of football,” explains Exall, a life-long Norwich fan.
“The World Cup in South Africa is another catalyst. It crystallises all the ailments of English football and brings some of my favourite characters to life. It’s spooky really!”
The first book in the trilogy - Football Mad! - was released in late 2008. It is set in contemporary England after the English football team failed to qualify for the Euro 2008 Championship.
Politicians, punters and parasites realise that English football is inexorably dying. A “Hutton-style” football inquiry is launched at the request of the British Government to which agents, players, managers, league executives, journalists and the TV Networks are summoned to attend and give evidence.
Football Wild!, published at the tail end of 2009, is the sequel to Football Mad! It is inspired by the credit crunch, debt pressures affecting all and sundry, a new breed of investors in sport and – crucially - the advent of the World Cup in South Africa.
The Football Mad! survivors take a new journey to Africa and Dubai, and grace their usual haunts in London, but somehow the recession has a profound effect that could well and truly revolutionise the future of Football for many years to come.
The third of the Football Satires Trilogy books (title not yet released) is set for publication in late 2010.
Football Mad! and Football Wild! by KPC Exall are available from AuthorHouse - www.authorhouse.co.uk – and Amazon, priced £14.99.
Visit author KPC Exall's website at: www.footballwild.com.
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