The Phantom Thief” is the third novel in the “Breakfast Club Adventures” series and was released in 2023. This mysterious figure is stealing from clubs all around Rutherford High! The one clue is this odd calling card left behind at the scene of the crime. He smiles. He has got a lovely smile – gentle, generous, bashful. “To be honest with you, I didn’t understand that football can change your life in that sense. Thankfully, it has managed to do that for me, and I’ve managed to give the younger people in my family – my nieces and nephews – different opportunities from the ones that I and my older brothers and sisters had. Hopefully it changes things for generations for my family. It’s important to do the right thing; to bring others with you along the way.” Rashford has not read Relentless once or twice, but again and again. “Every time I read it, I analyse it and highlight things in a certain colour. Then the next time I read it, I’ll highlight things in a different colour, and I’ll compare what I learned that time with the previous time,” he says. Grover has helped him deal with what he calls the “hero one week, zero the next” nature of his job: “Balancing my mood and emotion. Never getting too high, so that the low feels even lower. Just keeping that consistency and that stability.” It’s not the fact that he has read this book, but the way he has that tells you something about Rashford; about his ambition, his dedication, and his relentless pursuit of the possible.

Mel Rashford brought up her children as practising Christians. I ask him if he is religious. “Yeah, definitely. My mum is very religious. It’s not that we practise it all the time, but sometimes the faith we have in God is shown by the people that we are. For me and my family, that’s definitely the case. If you could see our lives 15-20 years ago to where we are now, it’s impossible not to have faith in God and all he does for us.”I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around – nobody big, I mean – except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff – I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be.” Would he like to play abroad? “ I would never say no.” What would be his ideal club? “Other than United? I’m a big fan of Real Madrid and Barcelona, because they’ve always had great players and played attractive football.” He apologises for giving what he thinks is an obvious answer: “Everybody watches Real Madrid and Barcelona.”

Did she tell Rashford she was struggling? “No, you would have never known the situation we were in from her. At home everything was happy, but sometimes she wouldn’t eat. She’d still be sat there, smiling, as if she had eaten, and she’d cook dinner and there would only be enough for me and my brothers and sisters. She wouldn’t eat that night, but you wouldn’t be able to tell.” Because she was always out working, she could say she had eaten earlier. MARTA: Little lines underneath, because he's smiling, and when we smile we've got these little lines. And last but not least...When Rashford pointed out it was now half-term and that many children would be going hungry, the response was astonishing. From the smallest cafes to the biggest supermarkets there were offers of free meals and food to people in need. As Rashford retweeted the pledges, he gave a voice to the generosity of people all over the country, in stark contrast to the government. Pooja Puri said: ‘I’m absolutely thrilled thatA Dinosaur Ate My Sisteris going to be published by Macmillan Children’s Books. Being given the opportunity to be part of the Marcus Rashford Book Club is a real honour. I believe that every child should have access to books and I’m incredibly excited that the Book Club will be partnering with Magic Breakfast to bring this story to children across the country. I truly hope thatA Dinosaur Ate My Sisterwill help a new generation of readers discover the wonder of books and the joy of reading. I look forward to hearing what children think of the story!’

Breakfast Club, according to Marcus, gave them the best possible start to their day as it welcomed them with open arms. It was not just about the food, but about forming friendships, about escape, and about togetherness. It was where some of his best memories were made. He wanted to capture this same feeling in his debut fiction book. At the beginning of the pandemic she was in the middle of a horrible crisis both of need and logistics. Communities had never been more desperate for FareShare’s provision, but many volunteers were shielding. To begin with, Rashford’s awareness campaign offered a bit of hope to those working 14-hour shifts to keep vulnerable people fed. “I’ve been a charity worker for over 30 years,” says Kaunang, who joined FareShare from Save the Children. “When Marcus first put his petition to the government in June, and Boris said they’re not going to do it. I just thought, ‘Here we go again.’ But then Marcus put a note out saying, ‘Let’s not give up.’ And I thought right, OK, if you’re doing that, I’m going to do that too.”

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