The Striker and the Clock

<p><b>An exhilarating and searing memoir about life as a professional female footballer - and a beautiful examination of the joy and pain of serious athletics</b><br><b><br>‘Riveting ... A paean to the beautiful game’ <i>Los Angeles Times </i> </b><br> <b>‘It contained so much of what I love and find endlessly interesting about football ... A very lovely thinker and writer’ Rebecca Watson<br>‘A compelling debut’ </b><i><b>Times Literary Supplement</b></i><br><br>In <i>The Striker and the Clock</i>, Georgia Cloepfil tells the story of her life in football: the triumph, the exhilaration, the deep bonds between teammates, and also the years of self-denial, exile and dedication, in which players try in vain to outpace a clock that ticks down toward an indeterminate ending.<br><br>What emerges is a profound meditation on what it is to have a body, and what it is to have the compulsion to push it to do the near impossible; and a love letter to the motivations, joys, pains and desires of a beautiful game.</p>