Billy the KidDiscover the beautiful stories Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nations favourite storyteller. Billy was a champion soccer star, playing for Chelsea in the 1930s. But that was before war broke out Billy the Kid is told through the voice of an 80 year old man, who looks back on his life as Chelseas champion striker until the outbreak of war in 1939 and on through his subsequent life. Billy joins Chelsea as a football apprentice, rises