One Got Past The Keeper: The True Story Of Fertile Fc, An Amateur Football Team's Journey Into Fatherhood

Reviews

With Fertile FC's attendance at the Byron Bay Writers' Festival now confirmed, this heart-warming book will see plenty media attention. Excellent reviews and coverage from Men's Health to the Sydney Morning Herald and Courier Mail. Expect author profiles and extracts in national women's and men's magazines, national/metro newspapers and ABC/ commercial AM radio interviews and TV interviews such as

Author description

The men of the mighty Fertile FC are Neil, Rick, Nick, Jim, Ross and Yari. Neil G. Young narrates the opening and closing chapters. The other chapters are written by each of the men as they tell their stories in their own unique voices, filled with wit sometimes, humour always and sadness, sometimes too. Neil Young was most recently a contributing writer and then staff writer for the comedy TV show 'Life Support' on SBS Television. He is the writer and director of many short films including the award winning 'How to Win Friends . . . and Kill People', which was selected for screening at the Sydney Fringe Festival and translated into seven languages. He trained as an actor and over the last 20 years has worked in film ('Narnia', 'Island of Dr Moreau'), stage ('Peter Pan', 'Postman Pat') and television ('Wildside', 'Home & Away'). Neil has done plenty of public speaking, facilitating of meetings and running workshops. He was also CEO of Uncle a mentoring program for boys with absent fathers, based in Byron Bay where he forged links with many men s organisations including The Fatherhood Project.