I really need to start finding some better books for these monthly “reading challenges”!  So, what happened in this one?  Scatty trainee teacher Lizzie was asked to help out with PE lessons and organising Sports Day.  This meant working closely with the school’s visiting PE teacher … who turned out to be her teenage sweetheart, whom she’d never really got over.  You already know how this ended, don’t you?   “I love you too.  It’s always been you.”

Lizzie also played for a football team, so that fitted in nicely with the women’s Euros; but that plot was a bit naff as well.  The team got to their first Cup Final for 20 years.  And, guess what?  Lizzie scored the winning goal in the dying minutes of normal time!   Yep, a lot of thought obviously went into that!

Also, although the title of the book was “A Match to Remember”, people kept talking about “the game” instead of “the match”.  Ugh.  Match.  The word is match.  We don’t have “Game of the Day” or “Test Game Special”, do we?  The word is *match*!!

Apart from the “game” thing, there was nothing actually wrong with the book, I suppose.  It just wasn’t very inspiring.