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'Spot the Ball' by Alan Durant (dramatisation)
A dramatised extract from 'Spot the Ball' by Alan Durant, where we meet siblings who play in a family football team. Their skills and talents are described and we discover that they often ask for advice and tactics from the ghost of their dead Uncle Archie. The author discusses his style of writing and what features of different genres he included to create a variation of a football story.
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