FC Farce – the funniest football book you’ll read this year

Released on 31st January by debut author Darryl Barkwill, FC Farce is a football comedy that perfectly captures the absurdity of lower league football.

When Graham reluctantly inherits his father’s beloved football club, he has no idea what madness lies ahead. FC Farce is a hilarious, ridiculous, chaotic whirlwind that captures just about everything that can go wrong at a football club into one crazy season.

With financial woes, outrageous disciplinary hearings, rogue mascots, and a local council leader hell-bent on destroying the club, Graham faces a huge challenge to avoid relegation and somehow steer the club to success.

This comedy of errors has already got readers laughing out loud — with one early reviewer saying they were ‘laughing nearly all the way through’ and another calling it ‘a madcap story that more than lived up to expectations.’

If you think following your own team is a struggle — you ain’t seen nothing yet!
FC Farce is out now on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.

Grab a copy here

EDIT June 3 2025

The story was picked up by the Plymouth Herald and Darryl kindly name checked me. Thanks.