First Plane Home Reviewed

Out on the 5th of February. Here's what writer Ian Cusack thinks of 'First Plane Home' from his excellent blog http://payaso-de-mierda.blogspot.co.uk/

First Plane Home is a chronological, rite of passage, bildungsroman set in 4 year gaps that chronicle Scotland’s qualification for four successive World Cups from 1978 to 1990, with each tournament showing how the narrator and his friends develop, from snotty nosed bairns kicking a ball around the back yard, to E-generation love children exchanging Ashington for Ibiza. It’s a heart-warming, affectionate portrait of an era I remember very well, which is suffused with Jon’s left wing sympathies in terms of the asides related to current affairs of the time. I enjoyed it tremendously.