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Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards 2023
Nooruddean Choudry was born in 1979 the year Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the last Shah of Iran and Tim Martin opened his first Wetherspoons Also that year a local football club lost the Cup Final to Arsenal courtesy of a man named Sunderland That club would become an allconsuming obsession for young Nooruddean who would one day become a small brown man and vitally also a Red
Inshallah United is the story of the first Britishborn son of a Pakistani family living in Englands second city And geography is important because if it wasnt for his mum and dad settling in Manchester rather than anywhere else in the world so much of what makes up Nooruddeans identity could have been so different As it was he grew up as a Muslim Manchester United supporting Morrisseyloving Maggiehating workingclass Manc
Inshallah United is about growing up as a strictly halal Stretford Ender a devout Muslim and diehard Red Its about praying five times a day that United would sign Alan Shearer and knock the Scousers off their perch And its a deeply personal account of life as a Muslim Asian Mancunian kid in the late 80s and 90s bookmarked by the most successful period in Manchester Uniteds history