Jonathan Sayer

A funny, heartwarming story, packed with memorable characters that you'll want to cheer all the way. Ave it!

Beautifully written and engaging... funny, warm and entertaining. And stupid. Really stupid. I loved it!

Eat your heart out, Sheikh Mansour.

Best thing I've read about Ashton and I was born there.

Chronicles, in hilariously painful detail, [Jonathan's] first season in charge of Ashton. A proper fish-out-of-water tale.

This heart-warming, genuinely funny little book is just the thing to lift the spirits.

Bills, bailiffs and players locked in car boots: the life of a non-League chairman. A funny book.

A glorious chronicle of memorable highs, bitter disappointments and never-ending bills.

An entertaining romp about taking over and running an established Non-League club.

The book best captures the illogical romance of the sport. This is a story about people and place, about unspoken words between a father and son, about tireless volunteers, Bovril at half-time, breeze-block terraces, and warm beer drunk under corrugated iron roofs. It's about the soul of English football - something the Saudi Arabian league can't emulate for all the money in the world.

The ridiculous life of a semi-professional football club chairman

‘Captures the illogical romance of the sport’ NEW STATESMAN 
 
Ever wondered what it would be like to run your local football club? 
 
On the second oldest football pitch in the world, Jonathan Sayer stands atop a beer crate to address the assembled fans. As his initial optimism begins to slip through his fingers, the new chairman of Ashton United starts to realize the scale of the challenge ahead. 
 
With a fan-led mutiny on his hands, a star striker on crutches, and a record number of games without a win, Jonathan is forced to make a series of increasingly desperate decisions – from sinking his life savings into an ever-spiralling wage bill to inviting a local priest to perform a late-night exorcism on the pitch. 
 
Chronicling the euphoric highs and bitter disappointments of the less glamourous side of the beautiful game, Nowhere to Run is the hilarious, heart-warming tale of life in the hot seat of a non-league football club. 
 
‘A glorious chronicle of memorable highs, bitter disappointments and never-ending bills’ 
MIRROR

Jonathan Sayer

Praise for Nowhere to Run

A funny, heartwarming story, packed with memorable characters that you'll want to cheer all the way. Ave it!

Beautifully written and engaging... funny, warm and entertaining. And stupid. Really stupid. I loved it!

Eat your heart out, Sheikh Mansour.

A funny, heartwarming story, packed with memorable characters that you'll want to cheer all the way. Ave it!

Beautifully written and engaging... funny, warm and entertaining. And stupid. Really stupid. I loved it!

Eat your heart out, Sheikh Mansour.

A funny, heartwarming story, packed with memorable characters that you'll want to cheer all the way. Ave it!

Beautifully written and engaging... funny, warm and entertaining. And stupid. Really stupid. I loved it!

Eat your heart out, Sheikh Mansour.

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