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[[Category:New Reviews|Sport]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=Hurst_Norfolk|title=SportOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst|rating=__NOTOC__{{newreview4|authorgenre=Dr Stephen SimpsonArt|titlesummary=Play Magic Golf It was pure serendipity: after a five- How to use self-hypnosishour drive, meditationwe were, Zenannoyingly, universal laws, quantum energyleft with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in - and found a display of the latest psychological most gorgeous pictures. I'd cheerfully have bought every one and NLP techniques hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to be make do with a better golfer couple of greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and I couldn't resist buying it.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ignotofsky_Sport|title=Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=Do you find that when youThe first of Stuart Burrell're at s world records, well, the driving range or first two, actually, as he's not a man to do things by halves, came about by accident. There had been a plan to raise some money for the Children in Need Charity and quite late on the practice ground you're full of promise but once you translate this people who were to have been the course all that promise drains away, leaving you stuck with the high handicappersmain attraction got a better offer and Burrell is not a man to let people down. What could be done to bring people in and raise some money? Do you know that you're better than thisMost of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, but somehow you never seem to realise your potential? Yes? Then you '''need''' this book – Burrell had made a hobby of escapology and the probability is that you don't just need idea of a sponsored escape had life breathed into it on . On 3 November 2002, he went for the golf course, but Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in 'real' life tooOne Hour. Maybe you're a Both were successful and more proficient golfer than that? You do ''quite '' well on the course? Then this book will show you how you can improve even more£300 was raised for Children in Need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685014</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul MathieuLandreth_Swell|title=The Masters of Manton: From Alec Taylor to George Todd|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary='Manton' is one of those iconic names in horse racing: the yard on the edge of the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire and currently the home of trainer Brian Meehan. But Paul Mathieu isn't looking at what's happening today, or even in the recent past; he's looking back at the men who made Manton a household name from when the yard was built in 1870 through to George Todd's death in 1974. The first master was Alec Taylor – generally known as 'Old Alec Taylor', who came to Manton from Fyfield with a string of classic winners to his name. He, his son, 'Young Alec', Joe Lawson and George Todd were the great names in just over a century at the yard.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955389402</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSwell |author=Royal and Ancient|title=Decisions on the Rules of Golf 2010 - 2011Jenny Landreth|rating=4.5

|summary=The rules I love Jenny's own description of golf are complex, but designed so her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that they give no unfair advantages or disadvantages to any players across the full range of abilitieswe should each write our own. Followed faithfully and honestly they should ensure This is more than just (I say ''just''!) a recollection of the author's own encounters with water; it's also a fair and comfortable game history of women's fight for allthe right to swim. But times have changed and there are always situations which are not explicitly covered by the rulesThat sounds absurd until you start reading about it, then it becomes serious. The Royal and Ancient receives over three thousand written requests for clarification each year Not too serious though – and these are not frivolous requests since they will only be considered if they are submitted by because Jenny Landreth is clearly a representative lover of the committee absurd. Not a lover of book blurbs myself, I do always seek to give a shout-out to those who get it dead right: in charge of the particular competition. this case, I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''Decisions giggles-on -the Rules of Golf-commute funny'' is the accumulated wisdom on situations which might be considered ambiguous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>060062045X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael HutchinsonOakeshott_Derby|title=Missing A Guide to the BoatClassics: Chasing a Childhood Sailing DreamOr How to Pick the Derby Winner|author=Guy Griffith and Michael Oakeshott

|summary=As It's not often that you get a youngster in glimpse into the nineteen eightiespersonal, Michael Hutchinson was passionate about sailing. He acquired a dinghy and crewyouthful interests of one of the greatest Conservative philosophers of the twentieth century, and spent his early years messing around on Belfast Lough. He learned but ''A Guide to sail, race Mirrors and fling jellyfish accurately at passing competitors. In time, his salty daydreams became ambitious, encompassing the Olympic Games, AmericaClassics''s Cup and Round co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is a light-hearted look at how to pick the World yacht racesDerby winner. Trouble wasOriginally written in 1936 it is, Hutchinson proved to be a deeply mediocre dinghy sailoramazingly, clocking up only one win in several seasons round the buoysas relevant today as it was then. Although he was good enough at race tactics and seamanshipIn fact, he lacked the sprinkling of gold dust that differentiates the very good performer from the brilliant. And so eventually, as is techniques and analysis employed by the authors were way ahead of sensible young men, he became disenchanted their time and stopped trying. Ironically, he then found he had a talent for cycling which took him as far as the Commonwealth Gameshave only come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552345</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LaneGibbons_Game|title=England 'Til I Die - A celebration of England's amazing supportersThe Beautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons|rating=3.54

|summary=To start with, an admissionFootball is all about its colours. And even if I am an write in the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne of English fan of football, but I am not a fan of England’s football squad. Hardly ever would I prefer it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to see the Three Lions triumphantwear. I never got into the habit, partly because I never saw the singularly English habit But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of supporting the underdog as making any sense. Plus you'll never get me standing Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and singing that awful tune before it had been one of their own making? And while we're on about colour, where were the people of colour in football in the match. But here olden days? There are testimonies from twenty or so people who see things completely differently many darker sides to football's history it's enough to me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906796505</amazonuk>make a young lad question the whole game…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FeinsteinAskwith_Today|title=Moment of GloryToday We Die a Little: The Year Tiger Lost His Swing and Underdogs Ruled the MajorsEmil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War Hero|author=Richard Askwith

|summary=Despite the picture As a runner myself, I often look for sources of Tiger Woods on the dust jacket this book inspiration. Training is rewarding, but every so often a day comes along when I question whether it is only incidentally about himall worth it or not. Between 2000 and 2002 Woods had dominated top-class golfZatopek proves that is, indeed, winning six all worth it. He put copious amounts of the twelve majors. But he's always after improvement and he sacked effort into his swing coach training, and turned to someone new. The swing is the engine number of races he won over his career as a golfer's game and tinkering with a good swing has major implications. For Woods it meant that he floundered out professional athlete clearly shows the results of the big money in 2003. For everyone else it meant that there were chances to be taken. You might have expected that it would be the established stars who took advantage, but it wasn't to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442455</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catrine ClayPavey_Mum|title=Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary='You have to learn to be hard men, to accept sacrifice without ever succumbing'. Such did Hitler say at the Nuremberg Nazi Party rallies in the 1930s. He probably did not have in mind playing in goal at a FA Cup final with a broken neck, such is the lifetime of difference between the two references. But that lifetime, as packed and varied as it was, is in the pages of this ever-interesting and swiftly-devoured book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224082884</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThis Mum Runs|author=Paul R Spiring (Editor)|title=Rugby Football during the Nineteenth Century: A Collection of Contemporary Essays about the Game by Bertram Fletcher RobinsonJo Pavey|rating=3.54

|summary=The midI am something of a self-nineteenth century represented the sporting equivalent confessed running addict: I think nothing of hitting the 'big bang' in terms roads for 50 miles a week, and spend much of winter sports in England, giving rise my time searching for races to the development of what today we call rugby union, football and rugby league, run all from over the same origincountry. Perhaps due to its popularity amongst the public schools of the dayThat is, until I wound up with a persistent sports injury, rugby union hung up my running shoes for many years claimed the moral high groundnearly a year, advocating amateurism and an emphasis on playing switched the game rather than providing a public spectacleroad to the pool. Indeed, At the arguments over time I thought nothing could alleviate the dangers misery of professionalism, which initially led not being able to the split into rugby league from the Northern clubsrun; but now I wish I had had Jo Pavey's autobiography, continued in union for well over a hundred years right up to the former England captain Will Carling's description of the powers that be of the RFU as 'old fartsThis Mum Runs''. In 1896 Bertrand Fletcher Robinson, together with contributions from a few leading players to keep me company because the elite athlete’s account of the dayOlympics, injury, family, and life, wrote Rugby Football which was the first volume in a successful nine-part series on Sports and Pastimes that was written for the Isthmian Library. This edition is effectively a facsimile of that bookgeneral, with the addition falls nothing short of an introduction, penned by Patrick Casey and Hugh Cooke and compiled by Paul Springinspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190431287X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael LewisLee_Lean|title=The Blind SideLean Gains|author=Jonathan S Lee

|summary=I don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't'' but in this case I think my husband was it's important. If you're a fairly sedentary person or a little taken aback casual sportsman or woman looking to see me curled up on shed a few pounds then you won't get the sofa engrossed in a best out of this book about American Football. You'll find some good advice about diet but I suppose I should admit 'm afraid that I didn't actually know much of it was is going to be about American Footballgo over your head. Of course you could always take up a sport seriously... WellOn the other hand, I knew it was about a boy who if you ''playedare'' American Football, but I'd thought a serious sportsman then you could find that was just going to be the background story, you know, like advice in ''Jerry MaguireLean Gains''. So the first chapter seemed to go on and on forever, and I thought my head might pop from reading about quarterbacks and blind sides and plays and offence and defence and running statistics...but then somehow I stumbled could lift you up to the real heart of the story; the story of Michael Oher, a young African-American from the slums next level of Memphis whose father was never around, and whose mother was a drug addict and lost him to social services at a young ageperformance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039333838X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Casey and Richard I HaleLong_Mock|title=For College, Club & Country - A History of Clifton Rugby Football ClubThe Mock Olympian|author=Michael Long

|summary=This looks like some peopleIt started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's worst idea of friend Sarah gave him a bookas part of his birthday present. It was Time Out's guide to the history of the Olympics and it covered each of the summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael did, everhe'd probably have run in most of the Olympic cities. Trivia, nostalgia, footballAlthough Long had done a goodly number of runs, bike rides and lists triathlons he'd only competed in two of the twenty- does three cities - London and Athens. Now most of us would have left it get more masculine? Thereat that, but that's not the Michael Long you're going to come to know and love. He saw it as a female in sight, either, as we get 101 portraits of footballers from times pastchallenge and what's more, he blogged about it and most importantly, a summary of their career since hanging up the boots in the professional gamethen wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905156421</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philippe Auclair Roberts_Home|title=Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be KingHome and Away|author=Dave Roberts

|summary=Even though IFor most football fans, non-league clubs (that is, teams who play outside the top four divisions of English football) are like a distant relative fallen on hard times; you'm not re vaguely aware of their existence but have no particular wish to visit them. Apart from a Manchester United fanfew weeks in early January, Eric Cantona is one when the odd non-league club reaches the third round of my all time favourite players the FA cup and I was really excited to get embarks on a spot of giant-killing, the opportunity lower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of devoted supporters. So what's it like to read support a book which was billed as revealing his innermost thoughtsnon-league team? Enter Dave Roberts, a fan of Bromley FC who are currently plying their trade in the Vanarama National League – the fifth tier of English football. In ''Home and being Away'', Dave documents the definitive account highs and lows of his careertravelling the country watching Bromley during the 2015/2016 season.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706347</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Merry and Steve Emecz Mcgrath_Darley|title=Enabled: One Disabled WomanMr Darley's Incredible Story Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Tackling Her Disability Racing in Pursuit of a Lifelong Dream25 Horses|author=Christopher McGrath|rating=3.5|genre=AutobiographySport|summary=Ruth Merry has never been your common-or-garden young lady. Born with no ability All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of just three stallions which came to move her legsEngland about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, The Darley Arabian and more, due to The Godolphin Arabian. The last century or so has seen a condition called arthrogryposis, she still became an avid equestrian, downhill skier, competitive swimmer, fund-raiser decline in the lines from the first and more. At the beginning last of this book a flippant comment inspires anotherthese stallions, future dream - to the extent that some 95% of going down all thoroughbreds worldwide - not just in a fourEngland -man bobsleigh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312322</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Wendy Kendall|title=Wind Driven: Barbara Kendall's Story|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Barbara Kendell is an extraordinary woman. She has not only won windsurfing medals at three Olympicsare descended from The Darley Arabian, she is a mother, an IOC representative, public speaker which was originally bought in Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and mentor. This biographyshipped to Yorkshire in 1704, written by her sisterThomas Darley, tells the inspiring story of an extraordinary woman who overcame her personal challenges and remains at the top of her sport after twenty years of competitiondied, in difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>186979043X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave RobertsMills_Top|title=Top Of The Bromley Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Most football fans (except my brother, who refuses to have anything to do with anything that has anything to do with the Arsenal) will have read ''Fever Pitch'' by Nick Hornby. It's the definitive book on what it's like to be a bloke who also supports a football team. It's also quite funny. It influenced every subsequent book about what it's like to be a football supporter. It also gave birth to a genre of writing that was subsequently termed 'lad lit'. Despite its imitators, nothing has been as good as ''Fever Pitch''. Until now.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906032246</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLeague|author=Tim Harris|title=Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted To KnowAndrea Mills

|summary=We all know oneFootball is known as the beautiful game and when I was younger I kind of believed this. Someone who can tell you who was the last player to score a hat trick for Accrington Stanley away I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home to Grimsby on a Wednesday night in Januarytry and complete my Panini sticker album. This There was just a random example, by even the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the waytitle. As I have grown older, so please don't write in with the answermy cynicism has grown too. The kind Leicester may be champions, but the day I feel that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of person who slightly richer multimillionaires is wonderful to have on your side at a Quiz Nightwin for the everyman, but who you donwill be a sad one. Perhaps the love of football still burns bright in the youth of today? ''Top Of the League''t really want to be getting into conversation with if you can avoid certainly hopes so as itis full of facts and figures all about the ball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224080210</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rowan SimonsBradbury_Walks|title=Bamboo GoalpostsUnforgettable Walks|author=Julia Bradbury|rating=4

|summary=When it comes to football, I'm ve long been a fan of Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in agreement with walking - so the great Bill Shankly when he said: ''Football is not a matter news that there would shortly be another series of life programmes and death, ita book to accompany the series was music to my ears. This time she's far more important than thatlooking at Britain''. When it comes to Chinas best walks with a view and she roams through Dorset, my knowledge is limited to what I've seen on the TV recently about Cotswolds, Anglesey, the earthquakeYorkshire Dales, the Olympics and Lakes, Cumbria, the protests; vague memories of Tiananmen Square South Downs and a love of the cuisine, or at least the version that comes from my local takeawayPeak District. Like many Unless you're in the Western worldScotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, I have no concept with a good spread around all points of what life is truly like in Chinathe compass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230703720</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Plimpton Martin_When|title=Paper LionWhen You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin|rating=4.5

|summary=Many It's a little depressing when a sports fan has dreamt of taking five wickets at Lord34-year-old is publishing his second autobiography, but that's what this book is, and Martin proves he's or scoring the winning goal at the FA Cup Final at Wembleycertainly not short on material. For writer and American football aficionado George Plimpton that implausible fantasy became The author, for those of you who don't know, is a reality.  Despite being 36 years old mechanic who dabbles in TV presenting and possessing precisely zero in footballing credentialsmotorcycle racing, Plimpton was determined to find out what though it would take to become a pro quarterback with one of America's premier clubs, the Detroit Lionslatter for which he will be most well-known. Paper Lion tells the story of his incredible adventureAs an F1 widow to a boy who likes all things fast, I thought he might like this book and so, perhaps unusually, I chose it with someone else in mind but made myself read it first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1599210053</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cristiano Ronaldo Mccoy_Winner|title=MomentsWinner: My Racing Life|author=A P McCoy|rating=3.54

|summary=For football fans the name In any walk of Cristiano Ronaldo conjures images of Manchester United and the famous number 7 shirt worn life, there are people who are universally known by the likes of David Beckhamtheir first names alone. In flat racing, Eric Cantona, Bryan Robson everyone knows who 'Frankie' is and George Best in National Hunt, you need to say no more than 'A.P.' Legend is an over-used word but not when it comes to the pastachievements of Tony 'A.P.' McCoy. Originally thought of as nothing more than a nice face and hairstyle heHe's now proving himself to be a footballer of great talent been champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and possibly even the best his career record of his generation4,348 wins may never be beaten. In fact, it's tempting to say that it will 'Moments'never' is not an autobiography but ' be beaten. He's won the Grand National, the Irish Grand National, two Cheltenham Gold Cups and won the Champion Hurdle three times. Unusually for a series jockey, he's also been BBC Sports Personality of snapshots the Year. He achieved all this by the age of his lifeforty one when he retired from racing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330457705</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Renton LaidlawKrien_Night|title=The R&Night Games: A Golfer's Handbook Journey to the Dark Side of Sport|author=Anna Krien

|summary=Renton LaidlawMere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a weekend and a couple of drinks, but what does a professional sportsman do to cut loose? What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer, former golf correspondent just into his twenties and follows the case as it goes to court, interviewing some of The ''Evening Standard'' those directly or indirectly involved and respected commentator has been editing ''The R & A Golferdigressing into related areas. In deference to the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity, she's Handbookchosen to give the man who was charged the name of 'Justin Dyer' for ten yearsin an attempt to level the playing field, so to speak. ItYou could Google the facts and come up with the correct name, but this isn's t a veritable brick book of a book and provides intelligent reading for anyone who is serious gossip about the game, be they enthusiastic spectator, dedicated amateur or professionalparticular people. It's not an investigation of a book to read through but one culture which will provide hours of browsinghas increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704492</amazonuk>

 {{newreview Frontpage|isbn=Scott_Born|title=You'll Win Nothing With KidsBorn to Rumble|author=Jim WhiteJeff Scott|rating=4

|rating=4|summary=Jim White has coached his son''Rumble''. It's football team for the past six years. He is an odd word, isn't it, with that touchline wallysense of a noise like thunder (or even of a motorcycle engine) ''and'' of a street fight between rival gangs. He is Author Jeff Scott has picked the man who makes you nudge your neighbour in perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the sparsely-populated standcombination of brakeless bikes, adrenalin, point him out ridiculous speeds and say "Watch himnot a lot of space explode into a confrontation on or off the track. Look at him now. Ha. Oh. Oh my lord. What It's he doing?" That is Jim White. Father and son and football. They love hardly surprising that it. They hate it. They obsess over it. They argue. It's probably the only time they exchange more than three words to one another happens - in an entire week. It takes over the entire house. And nowfact, it's even made surprising that it into a bookdoesn't happen more often given the competitive nature of the sport and the diva-like qualities of some of the top riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316029823</amazonuk>