Everyone on the Bader Ginsburg Middle School Badgers is looking forward to the playoffs and a chance to win back the Supreme Bowl trophy from the Wellstone Middle School Warriors--but somebody has stolen the trophy, and evidence points to one of the Badgers, so teammates Kenny Hu and Romeo Russell set out to clear their friend and discover the truth.
American Football Foul Play
Frank and Joe investigate rumors that someone involved with Pinnacle College's top-seeded football team is being bribed to throw the championship game.
When Danny Harte finds out there's been an anonymous foreign buy-out of his favourite club, City, he's furious - the fans were about to buy it themselves.
When England & City footballing hero Sam Roberts is reported missing the day after Danny Harte saw him being taken, blindfolded,into the bowels of the City FC stadium late at night, Danny's determined to get to the bottom of it.
Meet Danny Harte.
While the skills of players can be observed on pitches throughout Africa, the actions of those who run the game's administrative side are less visible.
Here was graphic evidence of foul play being justified — the means had justified the end, which was that the team in the pale blue shirts progressed in the competition through foul play. And that was something to celebrate, to glorify.
In recent months there has been a spate of burglaries at the houses of players from Danny's favourite football club, City FC. Danny wants to know who's behind it all and is on the case.
Russian billionaire Dmitri Tupolev and a mystery Englishman agree to fix an important match in Russia's favour by intimidating the England goalie, Alex Finn.
"Remy and Alison play on rival soccer teams.