Like sports?
Love annuals?
Read on.
Ciaran writes:
The Second Captains Sports Annual, Volume 1 is the book you’ve been waiting for your entire life. Well, your entire life since you stopped reading sports annuals as a child.
A co-production between Second Captains and Sweatshop, there’s more feature writing and bad language than your old Shoot! used to contain but expect all the things that made those annuals the very last word in school-ground literary chic.
Printed and produced in Ireland and featuring design from Trevor Finnegan, cartoons from The Guardian’s David Squires and Ireland’s Colm Mac Athlaoich and writing from Ken Early, Eoin McDevitt, Amy O’Connor, Murph, and Simon Hick, among others.
This is the ultimate loving gift [purchase at link below] for the Second Captains fan in your family. Or a cousin you don’t really like.
To celebrate this week’s book launch we like to offer Broadsheet readers, three, yes THREE copies of the book. To enter, just complete this sentence:
“Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because_____________________________________’
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Second Captains Sports Annual Vol 1
if me auntie had bollix, she’d be me uncle
Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because I’ve listened to pretty much every Second Captains, even the bit’s I’ve no interest in. After that amount of time and investment, frittering away around 500 hours of my life, I’d think of a free annual as at least a runners up prize for participation.
Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because I met McDevitt while looking for someone to watch Leinster Vs Munster in Ibiza and he completely failed to use his powers of fame and celebrity to get somewhere to show it so I feel he owes me.
Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because every Christmas as a child my Granny would get me 2 annuals; The Beano and The Dandy. No matter how many hints I asked my Ma to drop to my Granny that I wanted Shoot. The aul dear was consistent if nothing else. Every year for 10 years I got a copy of The Beano and The Dandy and no Shoot was ever found under my tree. I think a free copy of this book would bring me back to my childhood and clear the unnecessary resentment I hold towards my since passed Granny.
Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because ….actually, no. I don’t want it… because the show’s a pile of poo.
well brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and i deserve cos i’m bi-polar.
Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because I know my wife won’t buy it for me no matter how many hints I drop and I’ll end up with something disappointing again this year
Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because as the only person in my house who would actually change the channel to watch sport on TV, I feel one of these books would keep me amused whenever I loose control of the remote!
Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because I keep applying for tickets to the live show but never get any and I can only read with the assistance of cartoons.
I deserve it because as a junior soccer player I was forever being pulled off at half time.
ah here, i hope you pressed charges?
Nah it was the 1970s, it was de rigeur.
“Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because I’ve had my annual horribilis….boo hoo.”
“Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because I have no second half, and the soccie bookie wookie will keep me wobbly table from, well …being wobbly”
It wasn’t over, but it IS now, ’cause I’m gonna win! Yay!
* pulls shirt over head, y-fronts over boxers and runs around the small 10×6 room arms up in victory bl,owing kisses at the imagined crowd all the time bouncing off the padded walls as I go *
Yay!
Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because I’ve been knocking on its door, without slipping on any banana skins, all day long.
Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because its a funny old game and for a big lad he’s got good feet. But look, there’s no easy games and I’ve seen them given. They’ve set out their stall early but it’s been end to end. Literally.
Over the moon
sick as a parrot
Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because as a sport nut who’s married to a wife who wouldn’t know one end of a rugby ball from another and would have more success explaining the current diplomatic relations between all the countries meddling in the Syrian Shenanigans than the offside rule, it’s usually easier for me to buy my own present, wrap it and stick it under the tree myself. Winning this book would save me a lot of hassle this year and give me an excuse to be all nostalgic on Christmas Day and play football in the hall using two christmas crackers for goalposts and a bunch of rolled up hats as a ball while my wife looks on disapprovingly. Plus, it looks heavy. If I have to buy it myself I’ll have to carry it home from town. No-one wants to put me through that.
Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because I’m a Proper Football Man and this book looks triffic.
I wouldn’t buy it.
Well Brian it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because the oul fella loves to read a good sports book but since his quadruple bypass surgery a few months ago, he hasn’t got the concentration for the pile of sports books stacked in his bedroom and this annual would be perfect for him now, sating his love of sports reading without him flinging a book across the room in frustration at his focussing difficulties!
“Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because I want to win in the first half, and winner better in the second half.
Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because I need to get my brother something for Christmas and he’s not talking to me since I threw out all of his Score annuals from the 70’s 80’s and 90’s :(
Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because you halves lots of em and I halves none !
Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because … bah … I’m not talking about that … we just qualified for a major tournament, you know what I’m mean?
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Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because I finished my Siamsa crossword and word search puzzles.
“Well Brian, at the end of the day it’s a book of two halves and I deserve it because it literally is a book of two halves. You start reading the annual and as you reach the middle the ink runs off the page and creates another book just the same but with a different name’