THE STRIKER AND THE CLOCK

An exhilarating and searing memoir about life as a professional female footballer and a beautiful examination of the joy and pain of serious athletics Riveting A paean to the beautiful game Los Angeles Times It contained so much of what I love and find endlessly interesting about football A very lovely thinker and writer Rebecca Watson A compelling debut Times Literary Supplement In The Striker and the Clock 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 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