AMAZING JOURNEY – THAT SAYS IT ALL!

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‘VE been a Boreham Wood supporter since April 2008 and have recently written and self-published a book called “Amazing Journey” detailing my experiences about watching the Hertfordshire club up until 2015.

The book not only describes how the club went from relegation to Ryman Division One North in 2008 to the promised land of the National League in 2015 but describes how a committed Tottenham Hotspur supporter with no previous interest in Non-League football can suddenly develop a real passion for his local team.

The title, “Amazing Journey” says it all – both for Boreham Wood FC and for me personally.

Appeal

“Amazing Journey” is the first book I’ve written and was started almost by accident, In early 2015, for no apparent reason, I started to write about our day in Brighton just before Christmas in 2013 when we played Whitehawk, although I didn’t know what I was going to do with it at the time.

Sometime later, I started to add other things and the next thing I knew I had the makings of a book. It helped that the story had a happy ending with Boreham Wood’s promotion to the National League in 2015. I felt a story about the rise of this little Hertfordshire club was well worth telling.

It wasn’t the glamour of Boreham Wood FC that enticed me to Meadow Park that fateful day in April 2008. I wasn’t about to watch a club with a great or well renowned football tradition. In fact Borehm Wood FC were struggling towards the bottom end of the Ryman Premier table, heading for relegation to the eighth tier of English football. They had a poor team and played in front of even poorer crowds.

In fact, there was nothing positive to entice me to Boreham Wood that day, apart from two things, without either, I may have never have done so.

1) The club were offering cheap entry for their crucial relegation six-pointer against Carshalton Athletic, with the intention of boosting the crowd to aid their relegation fight.

2) I had nothing to do that Saturday afternoon and wanted to kill a few hours while looking after my twoyear-old daughter Sara.

Despite watching a 0-0 bore draw that day, I saw something that convinced me to get a season ticket for the following season.

“Amazing Journey” is not just about football. It is also about family, friendship, music, life and dodgy burgers. To add a music theme to the book, I have named each chapter after a descriptive song. Hopefully it will appeal not just to Boreham Wood or NonLeague fans but to football fans in general – and maybe even those with no interest in the beautiful game. The book is currently available on Amazon in print and to download on kindle at http://amzn.to/2eXJ6kz or via a link on my website at www.brettlewisbooks.co.uk If you want a signed copy at a slight discount, please email me on bslewis@talk21.com