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|genre=SportArt|summary=You remember Ronnie MatthewsIt was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, don't you? He's left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the footballer who celebrated his one – and so far, only – international match by booing his way through keys to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the Faroe Islands' national anthemchurch hall, then getting so we went in - and found a red card for chatting up display of the lineswomanmost gorgeous pictures. He still thinks he contributed well I'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to make do with a vital friendly, however. Hecouple of greetings cards when I saw 's the player whose career in piddling his way through continuously lesser and lesser clubs for far too long has only been matched in the recent game by Steve Claridge. And still he's bucking the trend – heOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks's the only author smart enough to realise that four-hundred page, ghost-written biogs are unnecessary, for he's crammed all his life, career, philosophy and response to Twitter into an hourI couldn's readt resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832763</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo McKinstryIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Jack HobbsWomen in Sport: England's Greatest CricketerFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|genre=SportChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Back ''Women in the early 1920s, there were only three Test cricket playing nations; England, Australia and South Africa. In the summer of 2012, both nations have been on tour; Australia recently beaten comprehensively at one day cricket and South Africa about Sport'' is coming to start a test series to determine us just before the best Test nation Winter Olympics in the world. Given that history is repeating itself, it seems appropriate that a new biography of Jack Hobbs, England's greatest run scorer and a man who repeatedly blunted the bowling attacks of both nations, should become available now.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083309</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Beth Raymer|title=Lay the Favourite: A True Story about Playing to Win South Korea in the Gambling Underworld|rating=4February 2018.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It was celebrates a dream which brought Beth Raymer to Las Vegas, but the reality was that she ended up waiting tables in a low-end diner century and living in a distinctly unsavoury motel. A chance meeting brought her into contact with Dink, half of the self-styled king development of the citywomen's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports betting as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and she moved into what was very much more. Think of a man's world - of high-stakes gambling sport and a lot of people you wouldn't necessarily want your daughter to knowpioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. This Each entry is the story of how Beth learned the trade a double-page spread with a brief biography and moved into the world of the big money where gambling regulations don't apply. Being sharp was what it was all abouta striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555395</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul WatsonBurrell_12|title=Up PohnpeiTwelve Times To The Max: A quest to reclaim the soul of football by leading the worldOne Man's ultimate underdogs Journey to glory, and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World Records|author=Stuart Burrell

|summary=IThe first of Stuart Burrell's world records, well, the first two, actually, as he'm s not a huge fan of both football and readingman to do things by halves, so came about by accident. There had been a book about football is always likely plan to appeal to me as raise some money for the best way of combining Children in Need Charity and quite late on the two. Recently, I've read books set at people who were to have been the pinnacle of the game in [[Life with Sir Alex: A Fan's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester United by Will Tidey]] main attraction got a better offer and about one Burrell is not a man's struggle to let people down. What could be done to bring football to people in and raise some money? Most of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, but Burrell had made a hobby of escapology and idea of a foreign land sponsored escape had life breathed into it. On 3 November 2002, he went for the Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in [[Bamboo Goalposts by Rowan Simons]]One Hour. ''Up'' ''Pohnpei'' is firmly Both were successful and more than £300 was raised for Children in the latter category, treading very similar ground to Simons' bookNeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668501X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will TideyLandreth_Swell|title=Life with Sir Alex: A Fan's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester UnitedSwell |author=Jenny Landreth|rating=45

|summary=In his 25 years I love Jenny's own description of her book as manager of Manchester United Football Club, Sir Alex Ferguson has won everything, most of them a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own. This is more than once. Hejust (I say ''just''!) a recollection of the author's taken his team to the top of English football own encounters with some lavish purchases, some expert man management and water; it's also a ruthless dedication history of women's fight for the right to his club and his playersswim. That sounds absurd until you start reading about it, then it becomes serious. Depending which side Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of the fence you sit onabsurd. Not a lover of book blurbs myself, I do always seek to give a shout-out to those who get it dead right: in this has made him either the most popular, or most hatedcase, man in English football. I'm in definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-the latter group. I-commute funny''m a Liverpool fan.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408149516</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark KreidlerOakeshott_Derby|title=The Voodoo Wave - Inside a Season of Triumph A Guide to the Classics: Or How to Pick the Derby Winner|author=Guy Griffith and Tumult at Maverick'sMichael Oakeshott

|summary=MaverickIt's is not often that you get a glimpse into the personal, youthful interests of one of the biggest, nastiest, jaw droppingly huge waves in the Pacific Ocean and as such has become something greatest Conservative philosophers of a Mecca for the worldtwentieth century, but 's top surfers. Situated off 'A Guide to the coast of Northern California its freezing cold conditions make it Classics'' co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is a far cry from light-hearted look at how to pick the sun drenched breaks Derby winner. Originally written in Hawaii1936 it is, Mexico amazingly, as relevant today as it was then. In fact, the techniques and South Africa with analysis employed by the number authors were way ahead of surfers adequately qualified (their time and fearless enough) to take on the cliff like drops probably numbering less than 100have only come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393065359</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian RidleyGibbons_Game|title=There's A Golden Sky: How 20 years of the Premier League has changed football foreverThe Beautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons|rating=54

|summary=Twenty years ago 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 the Premier League was founded, changing throne of English football irreversibly. Also 20 years ago, journalist Ian Ridley wrote it's common knowledge that red is the classic ''Season In more successful colour to wear. But is that flame red? Blood red? The Cold'', a snapshot red of the game at the time. Since then, clubs have risen Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and fallenthat it had been one of their own making? And while we're on about colour, players have become legends, and Ridley himself has become chairman where were the people of not one but two non-league clubs – first Weymouth, from 2003-2004 (and again briefly colour in football in 2009) and more recently St Albans City. In this stunning follow-up the olden days? There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to Season In The Cold, Ridley explore the effect that the changes in make a young lad question the sport have had at all levels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408130408</amazonuk>whole game…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Goldblatt and Johnny ActonAskwith_Today|title=How to Watch the OlympicsToday We Die a Little: Scores and lawsEmil Zatopek, heroes and zeros – an instant initiation Olympic Legend to every sportCold War Hero|author=Richard Askwith

|summary=Are you planning an Olympic telefest As a runner myself, I often look for a few weeks in July 2012? Are you one sources of the lucky people who have tickets to their chosen events? Or are you one of those many people who are genuinely confused by the rulesinspiration. Training is rewarding, or the scoring and who would like to know but every so often a little more so that they can understand what day comes along when I question whether it's is all about? If soworth it or not. Zatopek proves that is, indeed, you should look no furtherall worth it. We have He put copious amounts of effort into his training, and the book for you. Whether you're heading for London or going no further than number of races he won over his career as a professional athlete clearly shows the television we have the background to the sportsresults of it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684757</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin MitchellPavey_Mum|title=Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden, and the Golden Age of BoxingThis Mum Runs|author=Jo Pavey|rating=54

|summary=Despite not being I am something of a particular fan self-confessed running addict: I think nothing of hitting the sport of boxingroads for 50 miles a week, Kevin Mitchell's compelling knowledge and spend much of my time searching for races to run all over the personalities involved in the fight game in the 20th centurycountry. That is, coupled until I wound up with a staccato writing style which got persistent sports injury, hung up my attention quickly running shoes for nearly a year, and kept it switched the road to the pool. At the time I thought nothing could alleviate the misery of not being able to 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 very last pageOlympics, injury, meant this book actually rose far above my expectationsfamily, and life, in general, falls 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 the course all that promise drains awayEngland about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, leaving you stuck with the high handicappers? Do you know that you're better than this, but somehow you never seem to realise your potential? Yes? Then you '''need''' this book – The Darley Arabian and the probability is that you don't just need it on the golf course, but in 'real' life tooThe Godolphin Arabian. 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 more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685014</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Mathieu|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, last century or even so has seen a decline in the recent past; he's looking back at the men who made Manton a household name lines 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>}} {{newreview|author=Royal and Ancient|title=Decisions on the Rules last of Golf 2010 - 2011|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=The rules of golf are complexthese stallions, but designed so that they give no unfair advantages or disadvantages to any players across the full range extent that some 95% of abilities. Followed faithfully and honestly they should ensure a fair and comfortable game for all. But times have changed and there thoroughbreds worldwide - not just in England - are always situations which are not explicitly covered by the rules. descended from The Royal and Ancient receives over three thousand written requests for clarification each year – and these are not frivolous requests since they will only be considered if they are submitted by a representative of the committee in charge of the particular competition. 'Decisions on the Rules of Golf' is the accumulated wisdom on situations Darley Arabian, which might be considered ambiguous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>060062045X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Hutchinson|title=Missing the Boat: Chasing a Childhood Sailing Dream|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=As a youngster was originally bought in the nineteen eighties, Michael Hutchinson was passionate about sailing. He acquired a dinghy Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and crew, and spent his early years messing around on Belfast Lough. He learned shipped to sailYorkshire in 1704, race Mirrors and fling jellyfish accurately at passing competitors. In timeby Thomas Darley, his salty daydreams became ambitious, encompassing the Olympic Gameswho died, America's Cup and Round the World yacht races. Trouble was, Hutchinson proved to be a deeply mediocre dinghy sailor, clocking up only one win in several seasons round the buoys. Although difficult financial circumstances before he was good enough at race tactics and seamanship, he lacked the sprinkling of gold dust that differentiates the very good performer from the brilliant. And so eventually, as is the way of sensible young men, he became disenchanted and stopped trying. Ironically, 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LaneMills_Top|title=England 'Til I Die - A celebration of England's amazing supportersTop Of The League|author=Andrea Mills

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FeinsteinBradbury_Walks|title=Moment of Glory: The Year Tiger Lost His Swing and Underdogs Ruled the MajorsUnforgettable Walks|author=Julia Bradbury

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catrine ClayMartin_When|title=Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup LegendWhen You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael LewisMccoy_Winner|title=The Blind SideWinner: My Racing Life|author=A P McCoy

|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 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 He's won the real heart of the story; the story of Michael OherGrand National, a young African-American from the slums of Memphis whose father was never aroundIrish Grand National, two Cheltenham Gold Cups and whose mother was a drug addict and lost him to social services at a young age.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039333838X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patrick Casey and Richard I Hale|title=For College, Club & Country - A History of Clifton Rugby Football Club|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Clifton Rugby Football Club can proudly trace its history back to won the very emergence of the sport of rugby unionChampion Hurdle three times. Founded in September 1872 Unusually for a jockey, the same year that William Webb Ellis, who is reputed to have he's also been BBC Sports Personality of the rebellious Rugby schoolboy who first ran with the ball, diedYear. In reality, it is highly likely that He achieved all this by the Webb Ellis story is something age 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 forty one when most public schools had their own rules for playing versions of the gamehe retired from racing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312756</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Allen Krien_Night|title=Where Are They Now? - Rediscovering Over 100 Football Stars Night Games: A Journey to the Dark Side of the 70s and 80s Sport|author=Anna Krien

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philippe Auclair Scott_Born|title=Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be KingBorn to Rumble|author=Jeff Scott

|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 and I was really excited to get the opportunity to read a book which was billed as revealing his innermost thoughts, motorcycle engine) ''and being the definitive account '' of his careera street fight between rival gangs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706347</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ruth Merry and Steve Emecz |Author Jeff Scott has picked the perfect title=Enabled: One Disabled Woman's Incredible Story for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the combination of Tackling Her Disability in Pursuit brakeless bikes, adrenalin, ridiculous speeds and not a lot of space explode into a Lifelong Dream|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Ruth Merry has never been your common-confrontation on or-garden young ladyoff the track. Born with no ability to move her legsIt's hardly surprising that it happens - in fact, and it's surprising that it doesn't happen more, due to a condition called arthrogryposis, she still became an avid equestrian, downhill skier, often given the competitive swimmer, fund-raiser nature of the sport and more. At the beginning diva-like qualities of this book a flippant comment inspires another, future dream - that some of going down in a four-man bobsleighthe top riders.|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 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 Move 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]]