Fall and Rise of the Mölkky Bar Kids: A Sporting Underdog Story

Too old to lift a World Cup, too burned out for the Ashes - and with too many aches to take on Augusta - the Mölkky Bar Kids are friends who, after a lifetime of trying, found their true calling in sport. It just happened to be a convoluted game of Finnish skittles. When Neil Squires took up the obscure game of Mölkky, he had no idea that it would carry him to Japan, where he would represent his country and take his shot at sporting immortality. Sometimes those conversations in the pub can really get out of hand. This is the hilarious tale of four middle-aged men who go halfway across the world, in ill-fitting Team GB kit, to compete for the nation and become unlikely Japanese media celebrities, all the time wondering just how on earth they ended up there. It's a story about friendship, growing older and what happens when you allow yourself to get carried away and dream big. AUTHOR: Neil Squires is a freelance writer, author and ghost-writer. Ex-chief sports writer at the Daily Express, he now writes across the UK's national media organisations, including The Times, Telegraph, Guardian and Sun - as well as magazines and websites. Basically, anyone who will pay him. He has covered World Cups in football, cricket and both codes of rugby, as well as the Olympics, golf Majors and tennis Grand Slams. This is his sixth book.