“It was most definitely about time we had a crime novel from the strange world of football … bouncy and well written and should be read by everybody who paints a pretty picture of the state of things in the Norwegian football nation.”
Aftenposten

“There’s a lot that is wrong, a lot that is sad and sorry in football. Arild Stavrum shows that – all of it – in his football crime Golden Boys … It’s suspenseful, full of speed and action, and also actually interesting. The reader understands that Stavrum cares, and knows a whole lot about the problems he addresses. This passion helps lift Golden Boys. Stavrum is after all a former professional footballer … I can’t remember having read an all-out football crime before. It’s probably about time – either way it was great fun”
NRK P2

“Fiery footballing knowledge is combined with entertaining and thought provoking suspense in a way that is as eye-catching as a backwards volley in the top corner … How excited the author must have been when he discovered that no one had ever written a football crime before … A great and entertaining read, a must-have for everybody with passion for the game”
6/6 (Adresseavisen

“an unusually good and readable crime novel about the state of things in Norwegian football. Kicking off with the grotesque murder of the premier football agent in the country, Arild Golden, Arild Stavrum pulls the reader into a witches’ cauldron of corruption and ice cold view of human life … Stavrum doesn’t save his gun powder … when even Barcelona are “accused” of exploiting the game around African football talents as young as 14-15 years old, it’s easy to get hooked. Very good.”
5/6, Trønder-avisa

 “Again we get to enjoy Stavrum’s local knowledge of the thickets of football, and his prose is light and nimble – and the story is very accessible – and the novel is close to perfect for young men who have to be enticed into the world of books”
Hamar Arbeiderblad