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Chris Green's Every Boy's Dream - England's Football Future on the Line (A&C Black, 2010) was one of six named in the best football book category in this year's British Sports Book Awards, run by the National Sporting Club.

Every Boy's Dream investigates why - despite unprecedented expenditure on a huge overhaul of youth development in the past decade - British football continues to fail to nurture top-class football talent. The book does not pull any punches and lays the blame at the doors of the authorities in charge of youth football.

But, rather than just listing the faults of the system - which are many, as the hard-hitting real-life examples demonstrate - it provides tales of inspiration and a blueprint for the future of the national game.

With a foreword by Sir Trevor Brooking CBE and interviewees including former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Andy Burnham, it is the most thorough book ever written about football youth development and cracks through the age-old veneer of perceived wisdom that has stifled debate on the subject.

Chris is also the author of Matchday: What makes Saturday Special (Highdown, 2005) and The Sack Race: The Story of Football’s Gaffers (Mainstream, 2002).

Chris is currently working with Cyrille Regis MBE on the story of his life – to be published by Carlton later in 2010.