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[[Category:New Reviews|Sport]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael LongHurst_Norfolk|title=The Mock OlympianOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst

|genre=SportArt|summary=It started was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with an idle conversation just hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him keys to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in - and found a book as part display of his birthday presentthe most gorgeous pictures. It was I'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to make do with a couple of greetings cards when I saw 'Time Out'sOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' guide to the history of the Olympics and I couldn't resist buying it covered each of the summer Olympics .}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ignotofsky_Sport|title=Women in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. SarahSport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=5|genre=Children's boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael did, heNon-Fiction|summary=''d probably have run Women in most of Sport'' is coming to us just before the Olympic citiesWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. Although Long had done It celebrates a goodly number of runs, bike rides century and triathlons he'd only competed in two a half of the twenty three cities - London and Athens. Now most development of us would have left it women's sport by looking at thatfifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, but that's not the Michael Long you're going to come to know and lovemuch more. He saw it as Think of a ''challenge'' sport and what's more he blogged about a pioneering woman succeeding at it and then wrote is probably in this booksomewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662887</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave RobertsBurrell_12|title=Home Twelve Times To The Max: One Man's Journey to, and AwayRecollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World Records|author=Stuart Burrell

|summary= For most football fansThe first of Stuart Burrell's world records, non-league clubs (that iswell, teams who play outside the top four divisions of English football) are like first two, actually, as he's not a distant relative fallen on hard times; you're vaguely aware of their existence but have no particular wish man to visit themdo things by halves, came about by accident. Apart from There had been a few weeks plan to raise some money for the Children in early January, when Need Charity and quite late on the odd non-league club reaches people who were to have been the third round of the FA cup main attraction got a better offer and embarks on Burrell is not a spot of giant killing, the lower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of devoted supportersman to let people down. So what's it like What could be done to support a non-league teambring people in and raise some money? Enter Dave RobertsMost of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, but Burrell had made a fan hobby of Bromley FC who are currently plying their trade in the Vanarama National League – the fifth tier escapology and idea of English footballa sponsored escape had life breathed into it. In Home and AwayOn 3 November 2002, Dave documents he went for the highs Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and lows of travelling the country watching Bromley during the 2015/2016 seasonimmediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in One Hour. Both were successful and more than £300 was raised for Children in Need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>059307680X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher McGrathLandreth_Swell|title=Mr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 HorsesSwell |author=Jenny Landreth

|summary=All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one I love Jenny's own description of just three stallions which came to England about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, The Darley Arabian her book as a waterbiography and The Godolphin ArabianI love her encouragement that we should each write our own. The last century or so has seen This is more than just (I say ''just''!) a decline in the lines from the first and last recollection of these stallions, to the extent that some 95% author's own encounters with water; it's also a history of all thoroughbreds worldwide - not just in 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, in difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549830</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Andrea Mills|title=Top Of The League |rating=3.5|genre=Childrenwomen's Non-Fiction|summary=Football is known as fight for the beautiful game and when I was younger I kind of believed thisright to swim. I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and That sounds absurd until you start reading about it, then go home to try and complete my Panini sticker album. There was even the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the titleit becomes serious. As I have grown older, my cynicism has grown Not too. Leicester may be champions, but the day I feel that serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a group lover of multimillionaires beating the absurd. Not a group lover of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the everymanbook blurbs myself, will be I do always seek to give a sad one. Perhaps the love of football still burns bright shout-out to those who get it dead right: in the youth of today? this case, I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''Top Of giggles-on-the League-commute funny'' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts and figures all about the ball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia BradburyOakeshott_Derby|title=Unforgettable WalksA Guide to the Classics: Or How to Pick the Derby Winner|author=Guy Griffith and Michael Oakeshott

|genre=TravelSport|summary=IIt've long been s not often that you get a fan glimpse into the personal, youthful interests of one of Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in walking - so the news that there would shortly be another series greatest Conservative philosophers of programmes 'the twentieth century, but 'and'' a book A Guide to accompany the series was music to my ears. This time sheClassics's looking at Britain's best walks with co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is a view and she roams through Dorset, the Cotswolds, Anglesey, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lakes, Cumbria, the South Downs and light-hearted look at how to pick the Peak DistrictDerby winner. Unless you're Originally written in Scotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone1936 it is, with a good spread around all points of the compass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784298840</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Guy Martin|title= When You Deadamazingly, You Dead|rating= 4as relevant today as it was then.5|genre= Autobiography|summary= It's a little depressing when a 34 year old is publishing his second autobiography, but that's what this book isIn fact, the techniques and Martin proves he's certainly not short on material. The author, for those analysis employed by the authors were way ahead of you who don't know, is a mechanic who dabbles in TV presenting their time and motorcycle racing, though it's the latter for which we he will be most well-knownhave only come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753556669</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A P McCoyGibbons_Game|title=Winner: My Racing LifeThe Beautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons

|summary=Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy 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 throne of a weekend and a couple of drinksEnglish football, but what does a professional sportsman do it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to cut loosewear. But is that flame red? What do they do when they go out en masseBlood red? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial The red of an Australian Rules footballer, just into his twenties and follows the case as Sun cover banner when it goes to court, interviewing some of those directly or indirectly involved falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and digressing into related areas. In deference to the fact that the woman it had automatic anonymity shebeen one of their own making? And while we's chosen to give re on about colour, where were the man who was charged the name people of 'Justin' colour in football in an attempt to level the playing field, olden days? There are so many darker sides to speak. You could Google the facts and come up with the correct name, but this isnfootball't a book of gossip about particular people. Its history it's an investigation of enough to make a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>young lad question the whole game…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeff ScottAskwith_Today|title=Born Today We Die a Little: Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to RumbleCold War Hero|author=Richard Askwith

|summary=''Rumble''. It's an odd wordAs a runner myself, isn't it, with that sense of a noise like thunder (or even of a motorcycle engine) ''and'' I often look for sources of a street fight between rival gangsinspiration. Author Jeff Scott has picked the perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the combination of brakeless bikesTraining is rewarding, adrenalin, ridiculous speeds and not but every so often a lot of space explode into confrontation on day comes along when I question whether it is all worth it or off the tracknot. It's hardly surprising Zatopek proves that is, indeed, all worth it happens - in fact it's surprising that it doesn't happen more often given the competitive nature . He put copious amounts of the sport effort into his training, and the diva-like qualities number of some races he won over his career as a professional athlete clearly shows the results of the top ridersit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861849</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Red SzellPavey_Mum|title=The Blind Man of Hoy: A True Story|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Redmond Széll was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) at age 19. It's now 26 years since he got the life-changing news. Although not completely sightless – he sees shadows and shapes – he is registered blind and walks with the stereotypical white stick. This hasn't stopped him from pursuing his hobby of rock-climbing, though, both indoors on climbing walls and on Britain's cliffs. The culmination of his climbing obsession came in 2013, when he became the first blind person to climb the Old Man of Hoy, the 449-foot cliff off the Orkney Islands of Scotland.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124222</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMum Runs|author=Jeff Scott and Rachael Adams|title=Strictly Shale: Circling British SpeedwayJo Pavey|rating=4.5

|summary=When I was young am something of a self-confessed running addict: I remember Speedway being think nothing of hitting the roads for 50 miles a regular item on Saturday sport programmes on television. My father was an aficionado week, and loved spend much of my time searching for races to run all over the noisecountry. That is, until I wound up with a persistent sports injury, hung up my running shoes for nearly a year, the risk and switched the sheer energy of road to the sport - my mother less so and she quoted pool. At the noise and time I thought nothing could alleviate the strong possibility misery of there not being 'a nasty accident' when the riders slid their motorcycles sideways. It is still on television able to run; but now I wish I'll confess to not having watched for many years and it was for this reason that Jeff Scotthad had Jo Pavey's autobiography, ''Strictly ShaleThis Mum Runs'' achieved , to keep me company because the unusual feat elite athlete’s account of both being an eye opener the Olympics, injury, family, and bringing back long-forgotten memorieslife, in general, falls nothing short of inspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861830</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Palmer|titleisbn=Over The Line|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Jack Cock made his debut as a professional footballer for Huddersfield Town and that fragile dream of playing for his country came just a little bit closer, but this was just before the beginning of the First World War, when there was immense pressure on young men to do the honourable thing and join the war to fight in France. ''Over the Line'' is the story of Jack's war, of joining the Footballers' Battalion, playing in the Flanders Cup, fighting in the trenches and not just surviving but being decorated for bravery. After the war he scored England's first international goal and was one of the first of the modern generation of 'professional footballers'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLee_Lean|title=Slow Getting UpLean Gains|author=Nate JacksonJonathan S Lee

|summary=The fly leaf suggests that this BlufferI don's Guide is the way to instantly acquire all the knowledge which t often begin a book by telling you need to pass as an expert in the what it ''isn't'arcane and labyrinthine'but in this case I think it' world of golfs important. ThereIf you's quite re a fairly sedentary person or a bit there that I'd agree on - the rules (and to an unfortunate extent the ''attitudes'') are arcane and they seem casual sportsman or woman looking to take shed a lifetime to master, but therefew pounds then you won's a surprising amount t get the best out of information tucked away inside this little book. What You'll find some good advice about diet but I might quibble with 'm afraid that much of it is whether or not going to go over your head. Of course you could always take up a sport seriously... On the other hand, if you would ''pass as an expertare'' (which suggests a serious sportsman then you could find that youthe advice in ''Lean Gains're something of a con man): there's enough detail here to give could lift you a solid grounding without needing up to bluffthe next level of performance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909365327</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin|author=Daniel James Brown|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=You see, Jesse Owens had it easy – all he had to do was run fast. Alright, he did have to face unknown hardship, heinous prejudice at home and abroad, and make sure he was fast enough to outdo the rest of his compatriots then the world's best to win gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but others who wished to do the same had to do more. People such as those rowers in the coxed eights squad – people such as young Joe Rantz. He certainly had to face hardship, the prejudice borne by those in the moneyed east coast yacht clubs against an upstart from the NW USA, and when he got to compete he had to use so many more muscles, and operate at varying tempi, with the temperament of the weather and water against him, all in perfect synchronicity with seven other beefcakes. Despite rowing being the second greatest ticket at those Games, Joe's story is a lot less well known, and probably a lot more entertaining.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447210980</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLong_Mock|title=Running Like A GirlThe Mock Olympian|author=Alexandra HeminsleyMichael Long|rating=54

|summary=Running is awfulIt 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. So starts HeminsleyIt was Time Out's book about guide to the history of the Olympics and it covered each of the summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all the runningMichael did, he'd probably have run in most of the Olympic cities. And sheAlthough Long had done a goodly number of runs, bike rides and triathlons he'd only competed in two of the twenty-three cities - London and Athens. Now most of us would have left it at that, but that's not wrongthe Michael Long you're going to come to know and love. He saw it as a challenge and what's more, he blogged about it and then wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Home|title=Who Invented The Stepover? (And Other Crucial Football Conundrums)Home and Away|author=Paul Simpson and Uli HesseDave Roberts

|summary=In 1982For most football fans, non-league clubs (that is, second division Charlton Athletic staged an unlikely transfer coup by signing former European Footballer teams who play outside the top four divisions of English football) are like a distant relative fallen on hard times; you're vaguely aware of their existence but have no particular wish to visit them. Apart from a few weeks in early January, when the Year Allan Simonsen. If odd non-league club reaches the thought third round of the Danish superstar forsaking FA cup and embarks on a spot of giant-killing, the glamour lower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of Barcelona for south east London seemed unlikely then consider that Simonsen had previously faked his own death during devoted supporters. So what's it like to support a non-league team? Enter Dave Roberts, a World Cup qualifierfan of Bromley FC who are currently plying their trade in the Vanarama National League – the fifth tier of English football.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250065<In ''Home and Away'', Dave documents the highs and lows of travelling the country watching Bromley during the 2015/amazonuk>2016 season.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry RedknappMcgrath_Darley|title=HarryMr Darley's Arabian: My AutobiographyHigh Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses|author=Christopher McGrath|rating=4.5

|summary=Everybody with an interest in football knows who ''Harry'' isAll thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of just three stallions which came to England about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, The Darley Arabian and The Godolphin Arabian. The cover of his book won't tell you who he is, but if you're not last century or so has seen a decline in the know it's Harry Redknapp - football manager lines from the first and for many last of usthese stallions, something to the extent that some 95% of a national treasure. He's the manager who's seen it all, having started at rock bottom thoroughbreds worldwide - a 70s Portakabin at Oxford City not just in England - are descended from The Darley Arabian, which was originally bought in Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and risen shipped to the heights of managing Tottenham Hotspur Yorkshire in 1704, by Thomas Darley, who died, in the Premiership. At the same time difficult financial circumstances before he was the popular choice for the England Manager's job when Capello threw in the towel. It's fair to say that Harry has lived could follow his football life to the full and anyone buying this book will get their money's worthhorse home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091917875</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim WhiteMills_Top|title=Premier League: A History in 10 Matches|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=I go back to the days when the pinnacle of footballing achievement was to be in Division 1, but the stadia and the stands were downmarket. Standing - pushing, shoving and fighting - was the norm and it wasn't the place for a family outing. You could get into a match for less than a fiver and top footballers earned less than four times the average wage. All that changed in 1993 with the birth of the Premier Top Of The League. This was the brainchild of - amongst others - [[:Category:Greg Dyke|Greg Dyke]] who saw the potential for turning football at the highest level into a business. Twenty one years on the top footballers earn more than thirty five times the average wage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781854300</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Twirlymen: The Unlikley History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers|author=Amol RajanAndrea Mills

|summary=Although they may lack Football is known as the bang beautiful game and bluster when I was younger I kind of believed this. I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home to try and complete my Panini sticker album. There was even the fast bowlershalcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. As I have grown older, the three leading wicket takers of all time in Test cricket are all spinnersmy cynicism has grown too. They Leicester may look calmer in their run ups and actionbe champions, but the effect they put on day I feel that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the ball can everyman, will be incredible. Rather than blasting a batsman out, they bamboozle themsad one. That's why Amol Rajan thinks them deserving Perhaps the love of a book all football still burns bright in the youth of their own, and today? ''TwirlymenTop Of the League'' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts and figures all about the result of that beliefball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083252</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John D BarrowBradbury_Walks|title=Mathletics|rating=3.5|genre=Sport|summary=As a sports fan and a maths teacher, I was thrilled to get the chance to read a book which claims to give us 'surprising and enlightening insights into the world of sports'. This is rather a frustrating read because it seems to have got the balance wrong in many cases. There are some chapters which are so short as to be barely worth reading – one merely points out that while humans can’t run as fast as cheetahs or perform gymnastics as amazing as that of a monkey, we’re better all-rounders than any other animal. This is true, but hardly seems worth wasting a page on, it’s so obvious. Then there are other chapters, like the interesting one detailing the points scoring system in the decathlon, which are good but could have been much better given more space. The decathlon one is a prime example of this – it’s five pages, so one of the book’s longer sections, but could surely have been excellent if it had gone into more detail. I can’t help thinking that dropping half of the sections and doubling the other half in length might have been the way to go here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584239</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewUnforgettable Walks|author=Gavin Mortimer|title=A History of Cricket in 100 ObjectsJulia Bradbury

|summary=[[A History I've long been a fan of Football Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in 100 Objects by Gavin Mortimer|A History walking - so the news that there would shortly be another series of Football in 100 Objects]] was programmes and a brave attempt, but book to accompany the series was slightly let down by being a little too clinicalmusic to my ears. Being This time she's looking at Britain's best walks with a game imbued with passionview and she roams through Dorset, the Cotswolds, Anglesey, the book lacked this which took some of Yorkshire Dales, the edge off it. CricketLakes, whilst inspiring passion amongst devoteesCumbria, has a slightly more laid back following; one that may work better the South Downs and the Peak District. Unless you're in this format. That saidScotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, being with a game that has been played for five centuries, narrowing it down to just 100 objects is no less an undertaking than for footballgood spread around all points of the compass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689406</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen RocheMartin_When|title=Born to Ride: The Autobiography of Stephen RocheWhen You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin|rating=4.5

|summary=With all the revelations about the systemised doping culture surrounding Lance ArmstrongIt's team in the 1990s, it was interesting to read a story of little depressing when a time before cycling was embroiled in one drugs scandal after another. Although perhaps not as memorable as Armstrong34-year-old is publishing his second autobiography, but that's careerwhat this book is, Stephen Rocheand Martin proves he's will hold certainly not short on material. The author, for those of you who don't know, is a place mechanic who dabbles in cycling history TV presenting and motorcycle racing, though it's the latter for 1987, when which he became only the second man will be most well-known. As an F1 widow to win the Tour de Francea boy who likes all things fast, the Giro D'Italia I thought he might like this book and the World Championships in the same season. A quarter of a century after that remarkable featso, Roche has produced his autobiographyperhaps unusually, ''Born to Ride''I chose it with someone else in mind but made myself read it first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091905</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin MortimerMccoy_Winner|title=Winner: My Racing Life|author=A History of Football in 100 ObjectsP McCoy

|summary=Given how long In any walk of life, there are people who are universally known by their first names alone. In flat racing, everyone knows who 'Frankie' is and in National Hunt, you need to say no more than 'A.P.' Legend is an over-used word but not when itcomes to the achievements of Tony 'A.P.' McCoy. He's been played champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and how many books have been written about ithis career record of 4, any new history of football needs to have some kind of hook to make it stand out348 wins may never be beaten. Gavin Mortimer may have found In fact, it's tempting to say that, by presenting his history as it will ''A History of Football in 100 Objectsnever''be beaten. This prompts He's won the Grand National, the question as to whether Irish Grand National, two Cheltenham Gold Cups and won the whole of football could be reduced down to Champion Hurdle three times. Unusually for a mere century jockey, he's also been BBC Sports Personality of objectsthe Year. But then, if [[From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries He achieved all this by Chris Waring]] can make a history the age of maths worth reading, I guess anything is possibleforty one when he retired from racing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin KelnerKrien_Night|title=Sit Down and CheerNight Games: 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 Journey to be about the sport itself or biographies of those who expended great effort to reach the top of their chosen sport. But in Martin Kelner's 'Sit Down and Cheer: A History Dark Side of Sport on TV', there is finally a book for the less energetic among us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140812923X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clare Balding|title=My Animals and Other Family|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Clare Balding was born into a racing family - her father, Ian, was the trainer of Mill Reef who won the Derby 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 to remember that it was also the year of his daughter's birth. Horses came first and they were the priority in Ian Balding's life: the family had to adjust accordingly. He was a gifted and successful trainer who understood 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 of the racing stable but she inherited her family's love of animals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921467</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Fitzpatrick|title=El Clasico - Barcelona v Real Madrid: Football's Greatest RivalryAnna Krien

|summary=Nothing divides opinion quite like football Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a weekend and no-one expresses their joy a couple of drinks, but what does a professional sportsman do to cut loose? What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer, just into his twenties and disappointment like football fansfollows the case as it goes to court, interviewing some of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. For many fansIn deference to the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity, she's chosen to give the most important matches man who was charged the name of their entire season are 'Justin Dyer' in an attempt to level the ones against their local rivals; the derby matchesplaying field, so to speak. English football has a number of these, but only You could Google the matches between Barcelona facts and Real Madrid in Spain have elevated themselves above mere derby status and earned their own come up with the correct name: , but this isn't a book of gossip about particular people. It'El Clásico'' – the Classics an investigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408158795</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Secret FootballerScott_Born|title=I Am The Secret Footballer: 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 medals, 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 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>}}{{newreviewBorn to Rumble|author=Alan Tyers and Beach|title=I Kick Therefore I am: The Little Book of Premier League WisdomJeff Scott

|summary=You remember Ronnie Matthews, don't you? 'Rumble''. HeIt's the footballer who celebrated his one – and so faran odd word, only – international match by booing his way through the Faroe Islandsisn' national anthemt it, then getting with that sense of a red card for chatting up the lineswoman. He still thinks he contributed well to noise like thunder (or even of a vital friendly, however. Hemotorcycle engine) ''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 – he's of a street fight between rival gangs. Author Jeff Scott has picked the only author smart enough to realise that four-hundred page, ghost-written biogs are unnecessary, perfect title for he's crammed all his life, career, philosophy and response to Twitter into an hour's read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832763</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Leo McKinstry|title=Jack Hobbs: England's Greatest Cricketer|rating=5|genre=Sport|summary=Back in journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the early 1920scombination of brakeless bikes, there were only three Test cricket playing nations; Englandadrenalin, Australia ridiculous speeds and South Africa. In the summer not a lot of 2012, both nations have been space explode into a confrontation on tour; Australia recently beaten comprehensively at one day cricket and South Africa about to start a test series to determine the best Test nation in or off the worldtrack. Given It's hardly surprising that history is repeating itselfit happens - in fact, it seems appropriate 's surprising that a new biography it doesn't happen more often given the competitive nature of Jack Hobbs, England's greatest run scorer the sport and a man who repeatedly blunted the bowling attacks diva-like qualities of some of both nations, should become available nowthe top riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083309</amazonuk>