Maand van het Spannende Boek's(a Dutch theme month to promote literary genres of "exciting books") competition for May-June 1990 asked who wrote the bloodcurdling football thriller  "and a Press Conference to lock..." with two tickets to the Super Bowl XXIV as the prize.
This time the prize consisted of two tickets to the finale of the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Rome on July 8. The action was a success, in the succeeding year there was a 'promotion-period' set between May 21 and June 1990. There was also a competition attached: "Who wrote this bloodcurdling football thriller?". 
