Tackle!: Let the sabotage and scandals begin in the new instant Sunday Times bestseller

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Nor do the rival local football team, their duplicitous chairman and their corrupt dealings make things easier - let the scandals, sabotage and seductions begin.

There was a lot of football terminology, but it was written in such a way that it didn’t bog me down, and as I previously mentioned a football club opens up all kinds of wonderful plot lines.With many of the old favourites now spanning a world between football and horses I was not disappointed. Typical shenanigans follow - the team and management and numerous hangers-on romping and bonking their way through several seasons worth of football, with a suitably outrageous and satisfying conclusion - all ends tied up. Tony Adams, Alex Ferguson and Kenny Dalglish are all here, and so is Howard Wilkinson, the chairman of the League Managers Association, who showed Cooper around the FA’s national football centre in Staffordshire, and introduced her to the England manager, Gareth Southgate.

I was only fourteen at the time and now, thirty five years later I am still drawn to this charming character and all his antics, so as soon as Tackle!Bit of a slog although some fun - it’s been 20 years since I read Riders and Rivals so perhaps looking back with rose tinted glasses but Tackle didn’t live up to its billing. from its raunchy cover and title, to the wonderful characters, the brilliant one liners and exciting plot. As an owner, while grateful she included the breed in her book, I am trying to forgive her for referring to a German Shepherd as an Alsatian but finding it difficult. Rupert Campbell-Black, undefeated race-horse owner and handsomest man in the world, is in the darkest of places. I managed to reach the end, trying in vain to find the Jilly prose, sadly it was nowhere to be found.