The Yawning Giant

<p>Dave Allenson a gruff security guard is no fan of football but he takes his job seriously. When in the 1997 play-off against Iran Peter Hore tries to tear down the net of the Iranian goal Dave tackles him and prevents the vandalism - setting off a series of events in an alternate timeline of Australian football.</p><p><br></p><p>In this alternative universe 'sliding-doors' narration we follow a pivoted history where the results of the infamous game between Australia and Iran had gone differently.</p><p><br></p><p>One tiny moment can change everything. Through the eyes of various players associates and others over the course of twenty years this book traces the course of what if.</p><p><br></p><p>What would Australian football and the National Soccer League have looked like if things were different? </p><p><br></p><p>It's just one version of how if that moment had gone differently things would be today.</p>