When Frankie's football transports them to a Roman arena will his team be a roaring success or will the football battle be more than they bargained for?
—from publicity material
The ball looked like it had been chewed up and spat out again. Half the leather had peeled away, and it sagged like a used teabag. He’d won it at a funfair from a strange old man, but something very weird had happened when they had played with the ball in the park. A portal into another world had opened up, and they’d found themselves on a wooden galleon, playing football against pirates.

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  1. Frankie vs The Rowdy Romans by Frank Lampard (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, August 2013).