ABSTRACT
It is part of the purpose of this book that the boys should speak for themselves. This they did, often clearly and emphatically, and sometimes with ambiguity and uncertainty. Here are some reminders: Desai on the peer group: ‘You are who you hang around with’; Joe on ‘getting into trouble’: ‘When you go out… you can see how easy it is to get into trouble, when you’ve nothing to do’; George on what he really wanted to do: ‘The glamour, the glamour of football. I’ll be earning big money for something I enjoy doing’; these, and many others, had their say and their thoughts and experiences underpin the content of this book.
