A one-joke stand-up act turned into a novel to laugh-aloud effect. Bill Baxter, a contented shift supervisor in a small bakery, has an abiding passion for his local football club, Middleton Edwardians seemingly doomed to relegation and debt-ridden extinction. In a bizarre and very funny series of repercussions from Bill's failure to fill a batch of doughnuts with jam, Middleton gets a reprieve and the reader is introduced to a group of comic caricatures who have tabloid familiarity - the politician with something to hide, the violent and stupid football star and his greedy agent.
