Jack Harvey: Breakthrough, page 7
I started my run up, head down running faster and faster. I reached the ball and drilled it hard and low towards the bottom right corner. The keeper guessed right and had moved early. His fingers grasped at the ball. The ball clipped the inside of the post, and it was in. It went IN!
3-2 Accies!
I’d scored a hat trick in the play-off final, at Wembley, the national stadium and I wasn’t even aware that I had! I was buried under a sea of blue and yellow shirts. The referee didn’t even bother to kick off, and blew the final whistle. That’s it, we’ve won! We have been promoted. From a seemingly desperate situation we had fought back, through adversity I was the hero! Everyone was running about like crazy. Even Lucas was hopping over and joined the pile of delighted players.
We had lived our dream. I had conquered my fears, and by scoring the penalty I had put my face in every newspaper and on every sports media channel across the country. I didn’t care though; it was a dream come true.
My beloved Accies were going back to the Premier League, and next season I would be able to match myself up against some of the best players in the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Hewlett was born and raised on the Channel Island of Jersey. Surrounded by the sea and lush, green fields, his passion was sports: playing, watching, and dreaming of being a famous footballer like his hero, ‘Roy of the Rovers’.
Father to Harvey and Robyn, he began sports writing in 2008 for local papers, magazines and the Jersey Reds Rugby Club, where he still volunteers both as a junior coach and as part of the media team.
‘Breakthrough’ is his first book in a series of fast-paced, feel-good football action-adventure stories, telling the career of local boy Jack Harvey, and the Accies - his boyhood team.
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James Hewlett, Jack Harvey: Breakthrough
