Cup-Tied

Marina Reznor lives with her rugby-player husband and their two Labradors in Birmingham, Alabama. She became interested in English Premier League football (or soccer as she occasionally slips up saying) when American television began broadcasting matches and she realized there were almost no commercials. Impressed by the players' agility and stamina, Marina began following their exploits off the field. As fiction authors know, the start of a good book often begins with "I wonder what would happen if..." From the first chapters of her first book, Fowled, the characters formed themselves and wrote their own story. Marina swears she just wrote it down as it happened. In the course of researching English football, Marina fell in love with Hendon Football Club, a semi-professional club based in West Hendon, in the London Borough of Brent. The Kingsbury Town Football Club series is dedicated to their spirit.