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[[Category:New Reviews|Sport]] ==Sport==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark KreidlerHurst_Norfolk|title=The Voodoo Wave - Inside a Season of Triumph and Tumult at Maverick'sOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst
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|genre=SportArt|summary=Maverick's is one of the biggestIt was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, nastiestannoyingly, jaw droppingly huge waves left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the Pacific Ocean church hall, so we went in - and as such has become something found a display of a Mecca for the worldmost gorgeous pictures. I's top surfers. Situated off the coast of Northern California its freezing cold conditions d cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to make it do with a far cry from the sun drenched breaks in Hawaii, Mexico and South Africa with the number couple of surfers adequately qualified (greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and fearless enough) to take on the cliff like drops probably numbering less than 100I couldn't resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393065359</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian RidleyIgnotofsky_Sport|title=There's A Golden SkyWomen in Sport: How 20 years of the Premier League has changed football foreverFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
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|genre=SportChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Twenty years ago the Premier League was founded, changing English football irreversibly. Also 20 years ago, journalist Ian Ridley wrote the classic ''Season In The ColdWomen in Sport'', is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a snapshot half of the game development of women's sport by looking at the time. Since thenfifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, clubs have risen and fallenriding, players have become legendsskating, and Ridley himself has become chairman much more. Think of not one but two non-league clubs – first Weymouth, from 2003-2004 (a sport and again briefly a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in 2009) and more recently St Albans Citythis book somewhere. In this stunning followEach entry is a double-up to Season In The Cold, Ridley explore the effect that the changes in the sport have had at all levelspage spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408130408</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Goldblatt and Johnny ActonBurrell_12|title=How Twelve Times To The Max: One Man's Journey to Watch the Olympics: Scores , and lawsRecollections of, heroes and zeros – an instant initiation to every sportSetting Twelve Verified World Records|author=Stuart Burrell
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|summary=Are you planning an Olympic telefest The first of Stuart Burrell's world records, well, the 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 a few weeks the Children in July 2012? Are you one of Need Charity and quite late on the lucky people who were to have tickets been the main attraction got a better offer and Burrell is not a man to their chosen eventslet people down. What could be done to bring people in and raise some money? Or are you one Most of those many people who are genuinely confused by the rulesus would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, or the scoring but Burrell had made a hobby of escapology and who would like to know idea of a little more so that they can understand what sponsored escape had life breathed into it's all about? If so. On 3 November 2002, you should look no further. We have he went for the book for youFastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in One Hour. Whether you're heading Both were successful and more than £300 was raised for London or going no further than the television we have the background to the sportsChildren in Need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684757</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin MitchellLandreth_Swell|title=Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden, and the Golden Age of BoxingSwell |author=Jenny Landreth
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|summary=Despite not being I love Jenny's own description of her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own. This is more than just (I say ''just''!) a particular fan recollection of the sport author's own encounters with water; it's also a history of boxing, Kevin Mitchellwomen's compelling knowledge of the personalities involved in the fight game in for the 20th centuryright to swim. That sounds absurd until you start reading about it, coupled with then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a staccato writing style which got my attention quickly and kept it to lover of the very last pageabsurd. Not a lover of book blurbs myself, meant I do always seek to give a shout-out to those who get it dead right: in this book actually rose far above my expectationscase, I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-the-commute funny''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224075098</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scott Murray and Simon FarnabyOakeshott_Derby|title=The Phantom of The OpenA Guide to the Classics: Maurice Flitcroft, Or How to Pick the World's Worst GolferDerby Winner|author=Guy Griffith and Michael Oakeshott
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|summary=Maurice Flitcroft was forty six when he played his first round It's not often that you get a glimpse into the personal, youthful interests of one of the greatest Conservative philosophers of golf. Most golfers start on the local course and hack around until they develop some skill. Not Maurice. That wasntwentieth century, but ''t his way. He borrowed some books on golf from A Guide to the library and decided that he was going Classics'' co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is a light-hearted look at how to enter pick the OpenDerby winner. Yes – the OpenOriginally written in 1936 it is, amazingly, as relevant today as it was then. No starting at In fact, the bottom techniques and working his analysis employed by the authors were way up – Maurice went straight for the big one. He ran up a score of 121 and the R&A (that's Royal and Ancient if you're not a golf fan) went ballistic. It might be said that they lacked a sense ahead of humour but golf at this level is a serious game their time and Maurice was banned for lifehave only come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083171</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan CaseyGibbons_Game|title=The Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest FuriesBeautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons
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|summary=They're powerful enough to capsize unsinkable ships, wrench oil rigs Football is all about its colours. And even if I write in the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from their moorings and can destroy vast swathes the throne of coastal regionsEnglish football, flattening everything in their path and killing thousands of people in it's common knowledge that red is the processmore successful colour to wear. So what But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and that makes some men, and it is mostly menhad been one of their own making? And while we're on about colour, go where were the people of colour in football in search of these oceanic monstersthe olden days? That is what Susan Casey tries There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to find out in this engaging, often awe inspiring and sometimes terrifying look at make a young lad question the world of big wave surfing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531763</amazonuk>whole game…
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Bateman and Jeff Hill (Editors)Askwith_Today|title=The Cambridge Companion Today We Die a Little: Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to CricketCold War Hero|author=Richard Askwith|rating=4.5
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|summary=Cricket has an international reach which can be rivaled by few other team sportsAs a runner myself, and this book looks at the history I often look for sources of the game going from England around the world to the other major Test-playing nationsinspiration. Training is rewarding, but every so often a day comes along when I question whether it is all worth it or not. While Zatopek proves that is, indeed, all worth it's packed full . He put copious amounts of initially rather dauntingly dense proseeffort into his training, none and the number of the 17 chapters are particularly long – most weighing in at races he won over his career as a little under 20 pages – and professional athlete clearly shows the writing styles results of all of the various authors are very accessibleit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521167876</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria CorenPavey_Mum|title=For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions of a Player|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Some things are in the blood. For Victoria Coren it was cards. As a child she and brother Giles were taught to play Blackjack by their grandfather. He called it Pontoon but the most valuable lesson was that grandfather was ''always'' the dealer and ''always'' the winner. Giles played Poker but wasn't really a gambler. Victoria was one of life's risk-takers and she leant to the more adventurous side of her father's family. She was unhappy at school, preferring the company of her brother's straight-talking friends to the bitchy all-girl atmosphere at school. In the intervening twenty years she's won a million dollars, but for her it's never been about the money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847672930</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThis Mum Runs|author=Tom Fordyce and Ben Dirs|title=We Could be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World ChampionshipsJo Pavey|rating=54
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|summary=Meet Ben Dirs. Apart from having one I am something of a self-confessed running addict: I think nothing of hitting the most unfortunate names on recordroads for 50 miles a week, he’s a fairly laid-back guy whose daily breakfast consists and spend much of two cigarettesmy time searching for races to run all over the country. Compared to DirsThat is, his BBC colleague Tom Fordyce – until I wound up with a keen amateur triathlete – looks like Daley Thompson in his prime. But Tom’s ambition of winning persistent sports injury, hung up my running shoes for nearly a worldchampionship is still completely unachievableyear, surely? You don’t go from BBC blogger and switched the road to 100m champion, football World Cup winner, or even the number 1 snooker player on Earth, after allpool. On At the other hand, there are some more obscure Championships out there… time I thought nothing could these two unlikely heroes make their dreams come true, and be recognised as alleviate the best shin kickers in the world? Not if Rory McGrath has anything misery of not being able to do with it! In addition run; but now I wish I had had Jo Pavey's autobiography, ''This Mum Runs'', to keep me company because the elite athlete’s account of the Cotswold Olympicks and their shin-kickingOlympics, Dirs and Fordyce try snail racinginjury, wife carryingfamily, nettle eatingand life, and many more weird and wonderful events. The only thing they have in common is the humour which the pair see in all general, falls nothing short of theminspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230736157</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jakob LovstadLee_Lean|title=Going Mental: Reaching Your Goals in Business and Sports - Full Contact NLP Coaching from a Full Contact FighterLean Gains|author=Jonathan S Lee
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|summary=Some books seem determined to put I don't often begin a book by telling you off. Unless what it's literary fiction 'Going Mentalisn't' suggests something that I've gone to great lengths to avoid. The man on the cover is bald, bloodied and apparently screaming. but in this case Ithink it've been avoiding men like that toos important. If you'…not for the soft and sensitive!' it says and whilst I wouldnre a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking to shed a few pounds then you won't describe myself as either I do wonder whether allowing Jakob Lovstad to mess with my head is get the wisest thing I've ever donebest out of this book. When I realise that heYou's a cage fighter ll find some good advice about diet but I'm ready afraid that much of it is going to rungo over your head. What has that got to do with my business? Of course you could always take up a sport seriously... Because On the other hand, if you ''are'' a serious sportsman then you could find thatthe advice in ''Lean Gains''s what this book is about – reaching your goals in business and sportscould lift you up to the next level of performance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685588</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Stephen SimpsonLong_Mock|title=Play Magic Golf - How to use self-hypnosis, meditation, Zen, universal laws, quantum energy, and the latest psychological and NLP techniques to be a better golfer The Mock Olympian|author=Michael Long|rating=54
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|summary=Do you find that when youIt started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him a book as part of his birthday present. It was Time Out're at s guide to the driving range or on history of the practice ground you're full Olympics and it covered each of promise but once you translate this to the course all summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that promise drains away, leaving you stuck with all the high handicappers? Do you know that yourunning Michael did, he're better than thisd probably have run in most of the Olympic cities. Although Long had done a goodly number of runs, but somehow you never seem to realise your potential? Yes? Then you bike rides and triathlons he'''need''' this book – d only competed in two of the twenty-three cities - London and the probability is Athens. Now most of us would have left it at that you don't just need it on the golf course, but in that'real' life too. Maybe s not the Michael Long you're going to come to know and love. He saw it as a challenge and what's more proficient golfer than that? You do ''quite '' well on the course? Then , he blogged about it and then wrote this book will show you how you can improve even more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685014</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul MathieuRoberts_Home|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 Home 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>}} {{newreviewAway|author=Royal and Ancient|title=Decisions on the Rules of Golf 2010 - 2011Dave Roberts|rating=4.5
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|summary=The rules For most football fans, non-league clubs (that is, teams who play outside the top four divisions of golf English football) are complex, like a distant relative fallen on hard times; you're vaguely aware of their existence but designed so that they give have no unfair advantages or disadvantages particular wish to any players across visit them. Apart from a few weeks in early January, when the odd non-league club reaches the full range third round of abilities. Followed faithfully the FA cup and honestly they should ensure embarks on a fair and comfortable game for allspot of giant-killing, the lower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of devoted supporters. But times have changed and there So what's it like to support a non-league team? Enter Dave Roberts, a fan of Bromley FC who are always situations which are not explicitly covered by currently plying their trade in the rules. The Royal and Ancient receives over three thousand written requests for clarification each year Vanarama National League and these are not frivolous requests since they will only be considered if they are submitted by a representative of the committee in charge fifth tier of the particular competitionEnglish football. In ''Home and Away''Decisions on , Dave documents the Rules highs and lows of Golf' is travelling the country watching Bromley during the accumulated wisdom on situations which might be considered ambiguous2015/2016 season.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>060062045X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael HutchinsonMcgrath_Darley|title=Missing the BoatMr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: Chasing a Childhood Sailing DreamA History of Racing in 25 Horses|author=Christopher McGrath|rating=45
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|summary=As a youngster in the nineteen eighties, Michael Hutchinson was passionate All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of just three stallions which came to England about sailing. He acquired a dinghy and crew, and spent his early three hundred years messing around on Belfast Lough. He learned to sailago; The Byerley Turk, race Mirrors The Darley Arabian and fling jellyfish accurately at passing competitorsThe Godolphin Arabian. In time, his salty daydreams became ambitious, encompassing the Olympic Games, America's Cup and Round the World yacht races. Trouble was, Hutchinson proved to be The last century or so has seen a deeply mediocre dinghy sailor, clocking up only one win decline in several seasons round the buoys. Although he was good enough at race tactics lines from the first and seamanshiplast of these stallions, he lacked to the sprinkling extent that some 95% of gold dust that differentiates the very good performer all thoroughbreds worldwide - not just in England - are descended from The Darley Arabian, which was originally bought in Aleppo from the brilliant. And so eventuallyBedouin tribesmen and shipped to Yorkshire in 1704, as is the way of sensible young menby Thomas Darley, he became disenchanted and stopped trying. Ironicallywho died, in difficult financial circumstances before he then found he had a talent for cycling which took him as far as the Commonwealth Gamescould follow his horse home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552345</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LaneMills_Top|title=England 'Til I Die - A celebration of England's amazing supportersTop Of The League|author=Andrea Mills
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|summary=To start with, an admission. Football is known as the beautiful game and when I am an English fan of football, but was younger I am not a fan kind of England’s football squadbelieved this. Hardly ever I would I prefer spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home to see try and complete my Panini sticker album. There was even the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the Three Lions triumphanttitle. As I never got into have grown older, my cynicism has grown too. Leicester may be champions, but the habitday I feel that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the everyman, partly because I never saw will be a sad one. Perhaps the singularly English habit love of supporting football still burns bright in the underdog as making any sense. youth of today? Plus you'll never get me standing up 'Top Of the League'' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts and singing that awful tune before figures all about the match. But here are testimonies from twenty or so people who see things completely differently to meball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906796505</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FeinsteinBradbury_Walks|title=Moment of Glory: The Year Tiger Lost His Swing and Underdogs Ruled the MajorsUnforgettable Walks|author=Julia Bradbury
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|summary=Despite the picture I've long been a fan of Tiger Woods Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in walking - so the dust jacket this news that there would shortly be another series of programmes and a book is only incidentally about him. Between 2000 and 2002 Woods had dominated top-class golf, winning six of to accompany the twelve majorsseries was music to my ears. But heThis time she's looking at Britain's always after improvement best walks with a view and he sacked his swing coach she roams through Dorset, the Cotswolds, Anglesey, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lakes, Cumbria, the South Downs and turned to someone newthe Peak District. The swing is the engine of a golferUnless you're in Scotland there's game and tinkering something reasonably close to just about everyone, with a good swing has major implications. For Woods it meant that he floundered out spread around all points 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 becompass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442455</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catrine ClayMartin_When|title=Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup LegendWhen You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin
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|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.
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{{newreview
|author=Paul R Spiring (Editor)
|title=Rugby Football during the Nineteenth Century: A Collection of Contemporary Essays about the Game by Bertram Fletcher Robinson
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|summary=The midIt's a little depressing when a 34-year-nineteenth century represented the sporting equivalent of the old is publishing his second autobiography, but that'big bang' in terms of winter sports in England, giving rise to the development of s what today we call rugby unionthis book is, football and rugby league, all from the same originMartin proves he's certainly not short on material. Perhaps due to its popularity amongst the public schools of the dayThe author, rugby union for many years claimed the moral high groundthose of you who don't know, advocating amateurism is a mechanic who dabbles in TV presenting and an emphasis on playing the game rather than providing a public spectacle. Indeedmotorcycle racing, the arguments over the dangers of professionalism, which initially led to the split into rugby league from the Northern clubs, continued in union for well over a hundred years right up to the former England captain Will Carlingthough it's description of the powers that latter for which he will be of the RFU as 'old farts'most well-known. In 1896 Bertrand Fletcher Robinson, together with contributions from As an F1 widow to a few leading players of the dayboy who likes all things fast, wrote Rugby Football which was the first volume in a successful nine-part series on Sports I thought he might like this book and Pastimes that was written for the Isthmian Library. This edition is effectively a facsimile of that bookso, perhaps unusually, I chose it with the addition of an introduction, penned by Patrick Casey and Hugh Cooke and compiled by Paul Springsomeone else in mind but made myself read it first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190431287X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael LewisMccoy_Winner|title=The Blind SideWinner: My Racing Life|author=A P McCoy
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|summary=I think my husband was a little taken aback to see me curled up on the sofa engrossed in a book about American FootballIn any walk of life, there are people who are universally known by their first names alone. I suppose I should admit that I didnIn flat racing, everyone knows who 'Frankie't actually know it was going is and in National Hunt, you need to be about American Footballsay no more than 'A.P. ' Well, I knew Legend is an over-used word but not when it was about a boy who comes to the achievements of Tony 'A.P.'playedMcCoy. He'' American Footballs been champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and his career record of 4,348 wins may never be beaten. In fact, but Iit'd thought s tempting to say that was just going to be the background story, you know, like in it will ''Jerry Maguirenever''be beaten. So He's won the Grand National, the first chapter seemed to go on and on foreverIrish Grand National, two Cheltenham Gold Cups and I thought my head might pop from reading about quarterbacks and blind sides and plays and offence and defence and running statisticswon the Champion Hurdle three times...but then somehow I stumbled to the real heart Unusually for a jockey, he's also been BBC Sports Personality of the story; Year. He achieved all this by the story age of Michael Oher, a young African-American forty one when he retired from the slums of Memphis whose father was never around, and whose mother was a drug addict and lost him to social services at a young ageracing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039333838X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Casey and Richard I HaleKrien_Night|title=For College, Club & Country - Night Games: A History of Clifton Rugby Football Club|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Clifton Rugby Football Club can proudly trace its history back to the very emergence of the sport of rugby union. Founded in September 1872, the same year that William Webb Ellis, who is reputed Journey to have been the rebellious Rugby schoolboy who first ran with the ball, died. In reality, it is highly likely that the Webb Ellis story is something Dark Side of a spin job on behalf of Rugby School, although it did mean that Rugby School was able to impose its rules on the game at a time when most public schools had their own rules for playing versions of the game.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312756</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSport|author=Matt Allen |title=Where Are They Now? - Rediscovering Over 100 Football Stars of the 70s and 80s Anna Krien
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|summary=This looks like some people's worst idea Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a bookweekend and a couple of drinks, ever. Triviabut 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, nostalgiajust into his twenties and follows the case as it goes to court, footballinterviewing some of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. In deference to the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity, and lists - does it get more masculine? Thereshe's not a female chosen to give the man who was charged the name of 'Justin Dyer' in sight, either, as we get 101 portraits of footballers from times pastan attempt to level the playing field, so to speak. You could Google the facts and most importantlycome up with the correct name, but this isn't a summary book of gossip about particular people. It's an investigation of their career since hanging up the boots in the professional gamea culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905156421</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philippe Auclair Scott_Born|title=Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be KingBorn to Rumble|author=Jeff Scott
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|summary=Even though I'm not 'Rumble''. It's an odd word, isn't it, with that sense of a Manchester United fan, Eric Cantona is one noise like thunder (or even of my all time favourite players a motorcycle engine) ''and I was really excited to get '' of a street fight between rival gangs. Author Jeff Scott has picked the perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the opportunity to read combination of brakeless bikes, adrenalin, ridiculous speeds and not a book which was billed as revealing his innermost thoughtslot of space explode into a confrontation on or off the track. It's hardly surprising that it happens - in fact, it's surprising that it doesn't happen more often given the competitive nature of the sport and being the definitive account diva-like qualities of his careersome of the top riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706347</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|author=Ruth Merry and Steve Emecz |title=Enabled: One Disabled Woman's Incredible Story of Tackling Her Disability in Pursuit of a Lifelong Dream|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Ruth Merry has never been your common-or-garden young lady. Born with no ability to move her legs, and more, due to a condition called arthrogryposis, she still became an avid equestrian, downhill skier, competitive swimmer, fund-raiser and more. At the beginning of this book a flippant comment inspires another, future dream - that of going down in a four-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 Olympics, she is a mother, an IOC representative, public speaker and mentor. This biography, written by her sister, 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 competition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>186979043X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dave Roberts|title=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>}} {{newreview|author=Tim Harris|title=Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted To Know|rating=3.5|genre=Sport|summary=We all know one. Someone who can tell you who was the last player to score a hat trick for Accrington Stanley away to Grimsby on a Wednesday night in January. This was just a random example, by the way, so please don't write in with the answer. The kind of person who is wonderful to have Move on your side at a Quiz Night, but who you don't really want to be getting into conversation with if you can avoid it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224080210</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rowan Simons|title=Bamboo Goalposts|rating=4 |genre=Sport|summary=When it comes to football, I'm in agreement with the great Bill Shankly when he said: ''Football is not a matter of life and death, it's far more important than that''. When it comes to China, my knowledge is limited to what I've seen on the TV recently about the earthquake, the Olympics and the protests; vague memories of Tiananmen Square and a love of the cuisine, or at least the version that comes from my local takeaway. Like many in the Western world, I have no concept of what life is truly like in China.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230703720</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=George Plimpton |title=Paper Lion|rating=4.5 |genre=Sport|summary=Many a sports fan has dreamt of taking five wickets at Lord's or scoring the winning goal at the FA Cup Final at Wembley. For writer and American football aficionado George Plimpton that implausible fantasy became a reality.  Despite being 36 years old and possessing precisely zero in footballing credentials, Plimpton was determined to find out what it would take to become a pro quarterback with one of America's premier clubs, the Detroit Lions. Paper Lion tells the story of his incredible adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1599210053</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cristiano Ronaldo |title=Moments|rating=3.5|genre=Sport|summary=For football fans the name of Cristiano Ronaldo conjures images of Manchester United and the famous number 7 shirt worn by the likes of David Beckham, Eric Cantona, Bryan Robson and George Best in the past. Originally thought of as nothing more than a nice face and hairstyle he's now proving himself to be a footballer of great talent and possibly even the best of his generation. ''Moments'' is not an autobiography but a series of snapshots of his life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330457705</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Renton Laidlaw|title=The R&A Golfer's Handbook |rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=Renton Laidlaw, former golf correspondent of The ''Evening Standard'' and respected commentator has been editing ''The R & A Golfer's Handbook'' for ten years. It's a veritable brick of a book and provides intelligent reading for anyone who is serious about the game, be they enthusiastic spectator, dedicated amateur or professional. It's not a book to read through but one which will provide hours of browsing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704492</amazonuk>}} {{newreview |title=You'll Win Nothing With Kids|author=Jim White|genre=Sport|rating=4|summary=Jim White has coached his son's football team for the past six years. He is that touchline wally. He is the man who makes you nudge your neighbour in the sparsely-populated stand, point him out and say "Watch him. Look at him now. Ha. Oh. Oh my lord. What's he doing?" That is Jim White. Father and son and football. They love 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 in an entire week. It takes over the entire house. And now, it's even made it into a book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316029823</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Teens Reviews]]

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