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The story moves from Jamaica to Sheffield and then into the newly formed Premier League. Its central figure is Uri, a referee who climbs through the grades of English football until he reaches the highest level of the national game.

At every stage his decisions are under scrutiny. Tensions and prejudices, some old and some new, follow him onto the pitch and beyond it, and each move he makes is watched, dissected and debated by others. The novel follows his determination to succeed in a profession that has stacked the odds against him, right up to its summit and past it.

The book was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and featured on BBC Radio 4's Front Row.