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[[Category:New Reviews|Sport]] ==Sport==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin MortimerHurst_Norfolk|title=A History of Football in 100 ObjectsOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst

|genre=SportArt|summary=Given how long it's been played and how many books have been written about itIt was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, any new history of football needs left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have some kind of hook the keys to make it stand outour holiday cottage. Gavin Mortimer may have found thatThere was an art exhibition in the church hall, by presenting his history as ''A History of Football so we went in 100 Objects''. This prompts the question as to whether the whole of football could be reduced down to - and found a mere century display of objectsthe most gorgeous pictures. But thenI'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, if [[From 0 but thought that I would have to Infinity in 26 Centuries by Chris Waring]] can make do with a history couple of maths worth reading, greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and I guess anything is possiblecouldn't resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250618</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin KelnerIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Sit Down and CheerWomen in Sport: A History of Sport on TV|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=Like many English sports fans, the majority of the calories I burn are used up by shouting at the TV and occasionally going to the shops for more beer and crisps. Sports books tend to be about the sport itself or biographies of those who expended great effort Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to reach the top of their chosen sport. But in Martin Kelner's 'Sit Down and Cheer: A History of Sport on TV', there is finally a book for the less energetic among us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140812923X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWin|author=Clare Balding|title=My Animals and Other FamilyRachel Ignotofsky

|genre=AutobiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Clare Balding was born into a racing family - her father, Ian, was the trainer of Mill Reef who won the Derby ''Women in 1971, the same year that Clare was born. Whilst her father would never forget the year that his horse won the Derby he would usually fail Sport'' is coming to remember that it was also us just before the year of his daughter's birth. Horses came first and they were the priority Winter Olympics in South Korea in Ian Balding's life: the family had to adjust accordinglyFebruary 2018. He was It celebrates a gifted century and successful trainer who understood a half of the animals in his care and his record, including Mill Reef's Derby success speaks for itself. Clare's childhood was separate from the life development of the racing stable but she inherited her familywomen's love sport by looking at fifty of animals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921467</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Fitzpatrick|title=El Clasico - Barcelona v Real Madrid: Football's Greatest Rivalry|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=Nothing divides opinion quite like football its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and no-one expresses their joy and disappointment like football fansmuch more. For many fans, the most important matches Think of their entire season are the ones against their local rivals; the derby matches. English football has a number of these, but only the matches between Barcelona sport and Real Madrid a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in Spain have elevated themselves above mere derby status this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and earned their own name: ''El Clásico'' – the Classica striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408158795</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Secret FootballerBurrell_12|title=I Am Twelve Times To The Secret FootballerMax: Lifting The Lid On The Beautiful Game|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=In the 2012 Olympic Games the UK delighted in the skills shown by our athletes. We were - naturally - pleased by the medalsOne Man's Journey to, but what impressed was the training and dedication of people who were frequently fitting what they did around the day job or study. For the most part they weren't reaping much in the way Recollections of financial rewards from what they did - but they shone. The exceptions were the footballers. I forget (and that might well be Freudian) ''exactly'' who beat us, but I doubt that there are many people pleased by the show they made. It's now the beginning of the Premier League season and ''I Am the Secret Footballer'' has arrived at the perfect moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852653085</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSetting Twelve Verified World Records|author=Alan Tyers and Beach|title=I Kick Therefore I am: The Little Book of Premier League WisdomStuart Burrell

|summary=You remember Ronnie Matthews, don't you? HeThe first of Stuart Burrell's world records, well, the footballer who celebrated his one – and so farfirst two, actually, only – international match by booing his way through the Faroe Islandsas he' national anthem, then getting s not a red card for chatting up the lineswoman. He still thinks he contributed well man to a vital friendlydo things by halves, howevercame about by accident. He's There had been a plan to raise some money for the player whose career Children in piddling his way through continuously lesser Need Charity and lesser clubs for far too long has only quite late on the people who were to have been matched in the recent game by Steve Claridgemain attraction got a better offer and Burrell is not a man to let people down. And still he's bucking the trend – he's the only author smart enough What could be done to realise that four-hundred pagebring people in and raise some money? Most of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, ghost-written biogs are unnecessarybut Burrell had made a hobby of escapology and idea of a sponsored escape had life breathed into it. On 3 November 2002, he went for he's crammed all his life, career, philosophy the Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in One Hour. Both were successful and response to Twitter into an hour's readmore than £300 was raised for Children in Need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832763</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo McKinstryLandreth_Swell|title=Jack Hobbs: England's Greatest CricketerSwell |author=Jenny Landreth

|summary=Back in the early 1920s, there were only three Test cricket playing nations; England, Australia I love Jenny's own description of her book as a waterbiography and South AfricaI love her encouragement that we should each write our own. In This is more than just (I say ''just''!) a recollection of the summer of 2012, both nations have been on tourauthor's own encounters with water; Australia recently beaten comprehensively at one day cricket and South Africa about to start it's also a test series history of women's fight for the right to determine the best Test nation in the worldswim. Given that history is repeating itselfThat sounds absurd until you start reading about it, then it seems appropriate that becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of the absurd. Not a new biography lover of Jack Hobbsbook blurbs myself, EnglandI do always seek to give a shout-out to those who get it dead right: in this case, I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's greatest run scorer and a man who repeatedly blunted ''giggles-on-the bowling attacks of both nations, should become available now-commute funny''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083309</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beth RaymerOakeshott_Derby|title=Lay the Favourite: A True Story about Playing Guide to Win in the Gambling Underworld|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It was a dream which brought Beth Raymer Classics: Or How to Las Vegas, but the reality was that she ended up waiting tables in a low-end diner and living in a distinctly unsavoury motel. A chance meeting brought her into contact with Dink, Pick the self-styled king of the city's sports betting and she moved into what was very much a man's world - of high-stakes gambling and a lot of people you wouldn't necessarily want your daughter to know. This is the story of how Beth learned the trade and moved into the world of the big money where gambling regulations don't apply. Being sharp was what it was all about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555395</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDerby Winner|author=Paul Watson|title=Up Pohnpei: A quest to reclaim the soul of football by leading the world's ultimate underdogs to gloryGuy Griffith and Michael Oakeshott

|summary=IIt'm s not often that you get a huge fan glimpse into the personal, youthful interests of one of both football and reading, so a book about football is always likely to appeal to me as the best way greatest Conservative philosophers of combining the two. Recentlytwentieth century, Ibut ''ve read books set at the pinnacle of A Guide to the game in [[Life with Sir Alex: A FanClassics's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is a light-hearted look at Manchester United by Will Tidey]] and about one man's struggle how to bring football to a foreign land pick the Derby winner. Originally written in [[Bamboo Goalposts 1936 it is, amazingly, as relevant today as it was then. In fact, the techniques and analysis employed by Rowan Simons]]. ''Up'' ''Pohnpei'' is firmly in the latter category, treading very similar ground to Simons' bookauthors were way ahead of their time and have only come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668501X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will TideyGibbons_Game|title=Life with Sir Alex: A Fan's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester UnitedThe Beautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons

|summary=In his 25 years as manager of Manchester United Football Club, Sir Alex Ferguson has won everything, most of them more than onceis all about its colours. He's taken his And even if I write in the season when one team in blue knocks another team to in blue from the top throne of English football with some lavish purchases, some expert man management and a ruthless dedication it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to his club and his playerswear. Depending which side But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the fence you sit Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? And while we're onabout colour, this has made him either where were the most popular, or most hated, man people of colour in English football. I'm in the latter group. Iolden days? There are so many darker sides to football's history it'm s enough to make a Liverpool fan.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408149516</amazonuk>young lad question the whole game…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark KreidlerAskwith_Today|title=The Voodoo Wave - Inside Today We Die a Season of Triumph and Tumult at Maverick'sLittle: Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War Hero|author=Richard Askwith

|summary=Maverick's As a runner myself, I often look for sources of inspiration. Training is rewarding, but every so often a day comes along when I question whether it is all worth it or not. Zatopek proves that is one of the biggest, nastiestindeed, jaw droppingly huge waves in the Pacific Ocean and as such has become something of a Mecca for the world's top surfersall worth it. Situated off the coast He put copious amounts of Northern California its freezing cold conditions make it a far cry from the sun drenched breaks in Hawaiieffort into his training, Mexico and South Africa with the number of surfers adequately qualified (and fearless enough) to take on races he won over his career as a professional athlete clearly shows the cliff like drops probably numbering less than 100results of it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393065359</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian RidleyPavey_Mum|title=There's A Golden Sky: How 20 years of the Premier League has changed football forever|rating=5|genre=Sport|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 Cold'', a snapshot of the game at the time. Since then, clubs have risen and fallen, players have become legends, and Ridley himself has become chairman of not one but two non-league clubs – first Weymouth, from 2003-2004 (and again briefly in 2009) and more recently St Albans City. In this stunning follow-up to Season In The Cold, Ridley explore the effect that the changes in the sport have had at all levels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408130408</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThis Mum Runs|author=David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton|title=How to Watch the Olympics: Scores and laws, heroes and zeros – an instant initiation to every sportJo Pavey

|summary=Are you planning an Olympic telefest for I am something of a few weeks in July 2012? Are you one self-confessed running addict: I think nothing of hitting the lucky people who have tickets to their chosen events? Or are you one of those many people who are genuinely confused by the rulesroads for 50 miles a week, or the scoring and who would like spend much of my time searching for races to know a little more so that they can understand what it's run all about? If so, you should look no further. We have over the book for youcountry. Whether you're heading That is, until I wound up with a persistent sports injury, hung up my running shoes for London or going no further than the television we have nearly a year, and switched the background road to the sportspool.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684757</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin Mitchell|title=Jacobs Beach: The Mob, At the Garden, and time I thought nothing could alleviate the Golden Age misery of Boxing|rating=5|genre=Sport|summary=Despite not being a particular fan of the sport of boxingable to run; but now I wish I had had Jo Pavey's autobiography, Kevin Mitchell's compelling knowledge 'This Mum Runs'', to keep me company because the elite athlete’s account of the personalities involved in the fight game in the 20th centuryOlympics, injury, family, coupled with a staccato writing style which got my attention quickly and kept it to the very last pagelife, in general, meant this book actually rose far above my expectationsfalls nothing short of inspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224075098</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scott Murray and Simon FarnabyLee_Lean|title=The Phantom of The Open: Maurice Flitcroft, the World's Worst GolferLean Gains|author=Jonathan S Lee

|summary=Maurice Flitcroft was forty six when he played his first round of golfI don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't'' but in this case I think it's important. Most golfers start on If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking to shed a few pounds then you won't get the local course and hack around until they develop some skill. Not Mauricebest out of this book. That wasnYou't his way. He borrowed ll find some books on golf from the library and decided good advice about diet but I'm afraid that he was much of it is going to enter the Opengo over your head. Yes – the OpenOf course you could always take up a sport seriously.. No starting at the bottom and working his way up – Maurice went straight for the big one. He ran up a score of 121 and On the R&A (that's Royal and Ancient other hand, if you're not 'are'' a golf fan) went ballistic. It might be said serious sportsman then you could find that they lacked a sense the advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the next level of humour but golf at this level is a serious game and Maurice was banned for lifeperformance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083171</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan CaseyLong_Mock|title=The Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest FuriesMock Olympian|author=Michael Long

|summary=TheyIt 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 powerful enough s guide to capsize unsinkable ships, wrench oil rigs from their moorings the history of the Olympics and can destroy vast swathes it covered each of coastal regionsthe 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, flattening everything he'd probably have run in their path most of the Olympic cities. Although Long had done a goodly number of runs, bike rides and killing thousands triathlons he'd only competed in two of people in the processtwenty-three cities - London and Athens. So what is Now most of us would have left it at that makes some men, but that's not the Michael Long you're going to come to know and love. He saw it is mostly men, go in search of these oceanic monsters? That is as a challenge and what Susan Casey tries to find out in this engaging's more, often awe inspiring he blogged about it and sometimes terrifying look at the world of big wave surfingthen wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531763</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Bateman and Jeff Hill (Editors)Roberts_Home|title=The Cambridge Companion to Cricket|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=Cricket has an international reach which can be rivaled by few other team sports, Home and this book looks at the history of the game going from England around the world to the other major Test-playing nations. While it's packed full of initially rather dauntingly dense prose, none of the 17 chapters are particularly long – most weighing in at a little under 20 pages – and the writing styles of all of the various authors are very accessible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521167876</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAway|author=Victoria Coren|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>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Fordyce and Ben Dirs|title=We Could be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships|rating=5|genre=Sport|summary=Meet Ben Dirs. Apart from having one of the most unfortunate names on record, he’s a fairly laid-back guy whose daily breakfast consists of two cigarettes. Compared to Dirs, his BBC colleague Tom Fordyce – a keen amateur triathlete – looks like Daley Thompson in his prime. But Tom’s ambition of winning a worldchampionship is still completely unachievable, surely? You don’t go from BBC blogger to 100m champion, football World Cup winner, or even the number 1 snooker player on Earth, after all. On the other hand, there are some more obscure Championships out there… could these two unlikely heroes make their dreams come true, and be recognised as the best shin kickers in the world? Not if Rory McGrath has anything to do with it! In addition to the Cotswold Olympicks and their shin-kicking, Dirs and Fordyce try snail racing, wife carrying, nettle eating, and many more weird and wonderful events. The only thing they have in common is the humour which the pair see in all of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230736157</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jakob Lovstad|title=Going Mental: Reaching Your Goals in Business and Sports - Full Contact NLP Coaching from a Full Contact FighterDave Roberts

|summary=Some books seem determined to put For 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 off. Unless it's literary fiction 'Going Mental' suggests something that I've gone to great lengths re vaguely aware of their existence but have no particular wish to avoidvisit them. The man Apart from a few weeks in early January, when the odd non-league club reaches the third round of the FA cup and embarks on a spot of giant-killing, the cover is bald, bloodied and apparently screaminglower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of devoted supporters. ISo what've been avoiding men s it like that tooto support a non-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 ''…not for the soft Home and sensitive!Away' it says and whilst I wouldn't describe myself as either I do wonder whether allowing Jakob Lovstad to mess with my head is , Dave documents the wisest thing I've ever done. When I realise that he's a cage fighter I'm ready to run. What has that got to do with my business? Because that's what this book is about – reaching your goals in business highs and sportslows of travelling the country watching Bromley during the 2015/2016 season.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685588</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Stephen SimpsonMcgrath_Darley|title=Play Magic Golf - How to use self-hypnosisMr Darley's Arabian: High Life, meditationLow Life, Zen, universal laws, quantum energy, and the latest psychological and NLP techniques to be a better golfer Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses|author=Christopher McGrath

|summary=Do you find that when you're at the driving range or on the practice ground you're full All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of promise but once you translate this just three stallions which came to England about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, The Darley Arabian and The Godolphin Arabian. The last century or so has seen a decline in the course all that promise drains away, leaving you stuck with lines from the high handicappers? Do you know that you're better than thisfirst and last of these stallions, but somehow you never seem to realise your potential? Yes? Then you '''need''' this book – and the probability is extent that you don't some 95% of all thoroughbreds worldwide - not just need it on the golf coursein England - are descended from The Darley Arabian, which was originally bought in Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and shipped to Yorkshire in 1704, by Thomas Darley, who died, but in 'real' life too. Maybe you're a more proficient golfer than that? You do ''quite '' well on the course? Then this book will show you how you can improve even moredifficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685014</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul MathieuMills_Top|title=Top Of 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>}} {{newreviewLeague|author=Royal and Ancient|title=Decisions on the Rules of Golf 2010 - 2011Andrea Mills|rating=43.5

|summary=The rules of golf are complex, but designed so that they give no unfair advantages or disadvantages to any players across Football is known as the full range beautiful game and when I was younger I kind of abilitiesbelieved this. Followed faithfully I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and honestly they should ensure a fair then go home to try and comfortable game for allcomplete my Panini sticker album. There was even the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. But times As I have changed and there are always situations which are not explicitly covered by grown older, my cynicism has grown too. Leicester may be champions, but the rules. The Royal and Ancient receives over three thousand written requests day I feel that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for clarification each year – and these are not frivolous requests since they the everyman, will only be considered if they are submitted by a representative sad one. Perhaps the love of football still burns bright in the committee in charge youth of today? ''Top Of the particular competition. League'Decisions on the Rules of Golf' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts and figures all about the accumulated wisdom on situations which might be considered ambiguousball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>060062045X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael HutchinsonBradbury_Walks|title=Missing the Boat: Chasing a Childhood Sailing DreamUnforgettable Walks|author=Julia Bradbury

|summary=As I've long been a youngster fan of Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in walking - so the nineteen eighties, Michael Hutchinson news that there would shortly be another series of programmes and a book to accompany the series was passionate about sailing. He acquired a dinghy and crew, and spent his early years messing around on Belfast Lough. He learned music to sail, race Mirrors and fling jellyfish accurately at passing competitorsmy ears. In This time, his salty daydreams became ambitious, encompassing the Olympic Games, Americashe's looking at Britain's Cup best walks with a view and Round she roams through Dorset, the World yacht races. Trouble wasCotswolds, Hutchinson proved to be a deeply mediocre dinghy sailorAnglesey, clocking up only one win in several seasons round the buoys. Although he was good enough at race tactics and seamanshipYorkshire Dales, he lacked the sprinkling of gold dust that differentiates the very good performer from the brilliant. And so eventuallyLakes, Cumbria, as is the way of sensible young men, he became disenchanted South Downs and stopped tryingthe Peak District. IronicallyUnless you're in Scotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, he then found he had with a talent for cycling which took him as far as good spread around all points of the Commonwealth Gamescompass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552345</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LaneMartin_When|title=England 'Til I Die - A celebration of England's amazing supportersWhen You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin|rating=34.5

|summary=To start withIt's a little depressing when a 34-year-old is publishing his second autobiography, an admission. I am an English fan of footballbut that's what this book is, but I am and Martin proves he's certainly not a fan of England’s football squad. Hardly ever would I prefer to see the Three Lions triumphantshort on material. I never got into the habitThe author, partly because I never saw the singularly English habit for those of supporting the underdog as making any sense. Plus youwho don'll never get me standing up t know, is a mechanic who dabbles in TV presenting and singing that awful tune before motorcycle racing, though it's the matchlatter for which he will be most well-known. But here are testimonies from twenty or so people As an F1 widow to a boy who see likes all things completely differently to mefast, 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>1906796505</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FeinsteinMccoy_Winner|title=Moment of GloryWinner: The Year Tiger Lost His Swing and Underdogs Ruled the MajorsMy Racing Life|author=A P McCoy

|summary=Despite the picture In any walk of Tiger Woods on the dust jacket this book life, there are people who are universally known by their first names alone. In flat racing, everyone knows who 'Frankie' is only incidentally about himand in National Hunt, you need to say no more than 'A. P.' Between 2000 and 2002 Woods had dominated topLegend is an over-class golf, winning six used word but not when it comes to the achievements of the twelve majorsTony 'A.P.' McCoy. But heHe's always after improvement been champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and he sacked his swing coach and turned career record of 4,348 wins may never be beaten. In fact, it's tempting to someone newsay that it will ''never'' be beaten. The swing is the engine of a golferHe's game won the Grand National, the Irish Grand National, two Cheltenham Gold Cups and tinkering with a good swing has major implicationswon the Champion Hurdle three times. For Woods it meant that Unusually for a jockey, he floundered out 's also been BBC Sports Personality of the big money in 2003Year. For everyone else it meant that there were chances to be taken. You might have expected that it would be He achieved all this by the established stars who took advantage, but it wasn't to beage of forty one when he retired from racing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442455</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catrine ClayKrien_Night|title=Trautmann's Night Games: A Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legendthe Dark Side of Sport|author=Anna Krien

|summary=The mid-nineteenth century represented the sporting equivalent Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of the 'big bang' in terms a weekend and a couple of winter sports in Englanddrinks, giving rise but what does a professional sportsman do to the development cut loose? What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial of what today we call rugby unionan Australian Rules footballer, football just into his twenties and rugby league, all from follows the same origin. Perhaps due case as it goes to its popularity amongst the public schools court, interviewing some of the day, rugby union for many years claimed the moral high ground, advocating amateurism those directly or indirectly involved and an emphasis on playing the game rather than providing a public spectacledigressing into related areas. Indeed, the arguments over the dangers of professionalism, which initially led In deference to the split into rugby league from fact that the Northern clubswoman had automatic anonymity, continued in union for well over a hundred years right up she's chosen to give the former England captain Will Carling's description of man who was charged the powers that be name of the RFU as 'old fartsJustin Dyer'. In 1896 Bertrand Fletcher Robinson, together with contributions from a few leading players of in an attempt to level the dayplaying field, wrote Rugby Football which was so to speak. You could Google the first volume in a successful nine-part series on Sports facts and Pastimes that was written for come up with the Isthmian Library. This edition is effectively correct name, but this isn't a facsimile of that book, with the addition of gossip about particular people. It's an introduction, penned by Patrick Casey and Hugh Cooke and compiled by Paul Springinvestigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190431287X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael LewisScott_Born|title=The Blind SideBorn to Rumble|author=Jeff Scott

|summary=I think my husband was a little taken aback to see me curled up on the sofa engrossed in a book about American Football. I suppose I should admit that I didn't actually know it was going to be about American Football. Well, I knew it was about a boy who 'Rumble'played'. It' American Footballs an odd word, but Iisn'd thought t it, with that was just going to be the background story, you know, sense of a noise like in thunder (or even of a motorcycle engine) ''Jerry Maguireand''of a street fight between rival gangs. So Author Jeff Scott has picked 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 to the real heart of perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the story; the story combination of Michael Oherbrakeless bikes, a young African-American from the slums of Memphis whose father was never aroundadrenalin, ridiculous speeds and whose mother was not a drug addict and lost him to social services at lot of space explode into a young ageconfrontation on or off the track.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039333838X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patrick Casey and Richard I Hale|title=For College, Club & Country It's hardly surprising that it happens - 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 1872fact, the same year it's surprising that William Webb Ellis, who is reputed to have been it doesn't happen more often given the rebellious Rugby schoolboy who first ran with competitive nature of the ball, died. In reality, it is highly likely that sport and the Webb Ellis story is something of a spin job on behalf diva-like qualities 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 some of the gametop riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312756</amazonuk>