Yesterday the Fred's story hit the US when it was the lead feature of this weeks Only A Game show on Wbur Radio in Boston. The episode will roll out across 300 different radio stations during the week across the whole of the United States. The feature is nearly 15 minutes long and was produced by Karen Given who interviewed Clive and Mark a few weeks ago to create it and it was nice to see someone who had spent time reading the book draw out their favourite stories from the book. To listen to the results click here This comes shortly after our recent discovery that Fred Spiksley was the coach of Brooklyn Robin's Dry Docks football team in 1920, the year that they became Champions of America. That is a 4th National Championship for Fred as a coach.
The first rewards have been posted to those who ordered signed copies of Flying Over An Olive Grove. We were pleased to send some copies to the US. Hopefully many more copies will be traveling across the Atlantic shortly as our Radio Documentary Short for NPR's Only A Game should broadcast across 300 radio stations. More news to follow on this. The most popular reward - The colourised print of the first Wednesday team to play on Hillsborough have been ordered and should arrive on Wednesday. It will take a few days for package the prints, but we hope to have them all dispatched by Monday 21 May.