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[[Category:New Reviews|Sport]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Richard AskwithHurst_Norfolk|title= Today We Die a LittleOn My Way: Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War Hero|rating= 4|genre= Sport |summary= 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, indeed, all worth it. He put copious amounts of effort into his training, and the number of races he won over his career as a professional athlete clearly shows the results of it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100351</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNorfolk Coastal Walks|author= Jo Pavey|title= This Mum Runs|rating= 4|genre= Autobiography|summary= I am something of a self-confessed running addict: I think nothing of hitting the roads for 50 miles a week, and spend much of my time searching for races to run all over the country. That is, until I wound up with a persistent sports injury, hung up my running shoes for nearly a year, and 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 Olympics, injury, family, and life in general falls nothing short of inspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100432</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan S Lee|title=Lean GainsJohn Hurst

|genre=SportArt|summary=I don't often begin It was pure serendipity: after a book by telling you what it ''isn't'' but five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with an hour to fill in this case I think it's importantBlakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottage. If you're There was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in - and found a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking to shed a few pounds then you won't get display of the best out of this bookmost gorgeous pictures. YouI'll find some good advice about dietd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that I'm afraid that much of it is going would have to go over your head. Of course you could always take up make do with a sport seriously... On the other hand, if you couple of greetings cards when I saw ''areOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' a serious sportsman then you could find that the advice in and I couldn''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the next level of performancet resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463493X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael LongIgnotofsky_Sport|title=The Mock OlympianWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=45|genre=SportChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=It 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 OutWomen in Sport's'' guide is coming to us just before the history of the Winter Olympics and it covered each of the summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens South Korea in 1896February 2018. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael did, he'd probably have run in most of the Olympic cities. 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 her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own. This is more than just (I say ''just three stallions which came ''!) a recollection of the author's own encounters with water; it's also a history of women's fight for the right to England swim. That sounds absurd until you start reading about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turkit, The Darley Arabian and The Godolphin Arabianthen it becomes serious. The last century or so has seen Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a decline in lover of the lines from the first and last absurd. Not a lover of these stallionsbook blurbs myself, I do always seek to the extent that some 95% of all thoroughbreds worldwide give a shout- not just in England - are descended from The Darley Arabian, which was originally bought in Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and shipped out to Yorkshire those who get it dead right: in 1704this case, by Thomas Darley, who died, in difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse homeI'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-the-commute funny''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549830</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea MillsOakeshott_Derby|title=Top Of The League |rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Football is known as A Guide to the beautiful game and 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 Classics: Or How to try and complete my Panini sticker album. There was even the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. As I have grown older, my cynicism has grown too. Leicester may be champions, but Pick the day I feel that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the everyman, will be a sad one. Perhaps the love of football still burns bright in the youth of today? ''Top Of the League'' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts and figures all about the ball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDerby Winner|author=Julia Bradbury|title=Unforgettable WalksGuy 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 ''andA Guide to the Classics'' co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is a book light-hearted look at how to accompany pick the series was music to my earsDerby winner. This time she's looking at Britain's best walks with a view and she roams through DorsetOriginally written in 1936 it is, the Cotswoldsamazingly, Anglesey, the Yorkshire Dalesas relevant today as it was then. In fact, the Lakes, Cumbria, the South Downs techniques and analysis employed by the Peak District. Unless you're in Scotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, with a good spread around all points authors were way ahead of the compasstheir time and have only come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784298840</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Guy MartinGibbons_Game|title= When You Dead, You Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= Autobiography|summary= It's a little depressing when a 34 year old is publishing his second autobiography, but that's what this book is, and Martin proves he's certainly not short on material. The author, for those of you who don't know, is a mechanic who dabbles in TV presenting and motorcycle racing, though it's the latter for which we he will be most well-known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753556669</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeautiful Game|author=A P McCoy|title=Winner: My Racing LifeAlan 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=MathleticsUnforgettable Walks|author=Julia Bradbury|rating=3.54

|summary=As I've long been a sports fan and a maths teacher, of Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I was thrilled to get credit her with sparking my own interest in walking - so the chance to read news that there would shortly be another series of programmes and a book which claims to give us 'surprising and enlightening insights into accompany the world of sports'series was music to my ears. This is rather time she's looking at Britain's best walks with a frustrating read because it seems to have got view and she roams through Dorset, 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 monkeyCotswolds, Anglesey, we’re better all-rounders than any other animal. This is truethe Yorkshire Dales, but hardly seems worth wasting a page onthe Lakes, it’s so obvious. Then there are other chaptersCumbria, like the interesting one detailing South Downs and the points scoring system Peak District. Unless you're in the decathlonScotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, which are with a 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 spread around all points 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 herecompass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584239</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin MortimerMartin_When|title=A History of Cricket in 100 ObjectsWhen You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin|rating=4.5

|summary=[[A History of Football in 100 Objects by Gavin Mortimer|A History of Football in 100 Objects]] was It's a little depressing when a brave attempt34-year-old is publishing his second autobiography, but was slightly let down by being a little too clinicalthat's what this book is, and Martin proves he's certainly not short on material. Being The author, for those of you who don't know, is a game imbued with passionmechanic who dabbles in TV presenting and motorcycle racing, though it's the book lacked this latter for which took some of the edge off ithe will be most well-known. CricketAs an F1 widow to a boy who likes all things fast, whilst inspiring passion amongst devotees, has a slightly more laid back following; one that may work better in I thought he might like this format. That saidbook and so, being a game that has been played for five centuriesperhaps unusually, narrowing I chose it with someone else in mind but made myself read it down to just 100 objects is no less an undertaking than for footballfirst.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689406</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen RocheMccoy_Winner|title=Born to RideWinner: The Autobiography of Stephen RocheMy Racing Life|author=A P McCoy

|summary=With all the revelations about the systemised doping culture surrounding Lance ArmstrongIn any walk of life, there are people who are universally known by their first names alone. In flat racing, everyone knows who 'Frankie's team is and in the 1990sNational Hunt, you need to say no more than 'A.P.' Legend is an over-used word but not when it was interesting comes to read a story the achievements of a time before cycling was embroiled in one drugs scandal after anotherTony 'A.P.' McCoy. Although perhaps not as memorable as ArmstrongHe's been champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and his careerrecord of 4,348 wins may never be beaten. In fact, Stephen Rocheit's tempting to say that it will hold a place in cycling history for 1987''never'' be beaten. He's won the Grand National, when he became only the second man to win the Tour de FranceIrish Grand National, the Giro D'Italia two Cheltenham Gold Cups and won the World Championships in the same seasonChampion Hurdle three times. A quarter of Unusually for a century after that remarkable feat, Roche has produced his autobiographyjockey, he''Born to Ride''s also been BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He achieved all this by the age of forty one when he retired from racing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091905</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin MortimerKrien_Night|title=Night Games: A History Journey to the Dark Side of Football in 100 ObjectsSport|author=Anna Krien|rating=4.5

|summary=Given how long it's been played Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a weekend and how many books have been written about ita couple of drinks, any new history 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 football needs an Australian Rules footballer, just into his twenties and follows the case as it goes to have court, interviewing some kind of hook those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. In deference to make it stand out. Gavin Mortimer may have found the fact thatthe woman had automatic anonymity, by presenting his history as she''A History s chosen to give the man who was charged the name of Football in 100 Objects'Justin Dyer'in an attempt to level the playing field, so to speak. This prompts You could Google the question as to whether facts and come up with the whole of football could be reduced down to correct name, but this isn't a mere century book of objectsgossip about particular people. But then, if [[From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries by Chris Waring]] can make It's an investigation of a history of maths worth reading, I guess anything is possibleculture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin KelnerScott_Born|title=Sit Down and Cheer: A History of Sport on TVBorn to Rumble|author=Jeff Scott

|summary=Like many English sports fans''Rumble''. It's an odd word, isn't it, the majority with that sense 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 a noise like thunder (or biographies even of those who expended great effort to reach the top of their chosen sport. But in Martin Kelnera motorcycle engine) 's 'Sit Down and Cheer: A History '' of Sport on TV', there is finally a book street fight between rival gangs. Author Jeff Scott has picked the perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the less energetic among us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140812923X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clare Balding|title=My Animals combination of brakeless bikes, adrenalin, ridiculous speeds and Other Family|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Clare Balding was born not a lot of space explode into a racing family - her father, Ian, was the trainer of Mill Reef who won the Derby in 1971, confrontation on or off the same year that Clare was borntrack. Whilst her father would never forget the year that his horse won the Derby he would usually fail to remember It's hardly surprising 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 happens - in his care and his recordfact, including Mill Reefit's Derby success speaks for itself. Claresurprising that it doesn's childhood was separate from t happen more often given the life competitive nature 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 Rivalry|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=Nothing divides opinion quite like football sport and nothe diva-one expresses their joy and disappointment like football fans. For many fans, the most important matches qualities of their entire season are the ones against their local rivals; the derby matches. English football has a number some of these, but only the matches between Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain have elevated themselves above mere derby status and earned their own name: ''El Clásico'' – the Classictop riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408158795</amazonuk>