Football:The Left Wing Menace

Eighteen years old. Two hundred miles from home. Thirty pence in his pocket. Alejandro Jesse was supposed to sign a three-year contract with Rayo Vallecano today. Instead, he burned it — for a handwritten note from a stranger who claims to be an Aston Villa scout, and a promise that might not even be real. No agent. No money. No way back. He sleeps in bus shelters. He begs for phone chargers. He plays a trial match on a body that hasn’t slept in two days — and somehow, it’s not enough. Every door in Birmingham is locked to a kid whose name isn’t on any list. But back in London, his mother is running out of time in a hospital ward with no heating, and the deposit that could save her is three hundred pounds his father doesn’t have. Every touch on the pitch is a gamble he can’t afford to lose. Every call he doesn’t answer might be the one that matters most. Some players chase glory. Alejandro Jesse is just trying not to lose everything he has left. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Football:The Left Wing Menace — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠