And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever.īecause the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.ĭESCRIPTION : Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too). Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processesįootball has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary subjects

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Unseen Academicals is the seventh book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order. 'No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect ' Daily Mail Or, to borrow another phrase, it's about life, the Universe and everything' The Times 'This isn't just football, it's Discworld football. Īnd the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

To do this, they recruit an unlikely group of players: Trev, a street urchin with a talent for kicking a tin can Glenda, the night chef who makes a mean pie Juliet, the kitchen hand turned world's greatest fashion model and the mysterious Mr Nutt, who has something powerful, and dark, locked away inside him. so they're in the mood for trying everything else.

And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic. 'We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.'įootball has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. Print Unseen Academicals - (Discworld 37, Rincewind 8)