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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyArt|summary=Football is all about its colours. And even if I write It was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the season when one team keys to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne of English footballchurch hall, it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to wear. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up so we went in - and found a tragedy – and that it had been one display of their own making? the most gorgeous pictures. And while weI're d cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on about colourour walls, where were the people but thought that I would have to make do with a couple of colour in football in the olden days? There are so many darker sides to footballgreetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and I couldn's history t resist buying it's enough to make a young lad question the whole game…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Richard AskwithIgnotofsky_Sport|title= Today We Die a LittleWomen in Sport: Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Cold War HeroWin|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating= 45|genre= Sport Children's Non-Fiction|summary= As ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a runner myselfhalf of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, I often look for sources covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Think of inspiration. Training is rewarding, but every so often a day comes along when I question whether sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is all worth it or notprobably in this book somewhere. Zatopek proves that Each entry is, indeed, all worth it. He put copious amounts of effort into his training, a double-page spread with a brief biography and the number of races he won over his career as a professional athlete clearly shows the results of itstriking portrait. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100351</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jo PaveyBurrell_12|title= This Mum Runs|rating= 4|genre= Autobiography|summary= I am something of a self-confessed running addictTwelve Times To The Max: 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 PaveyOne Man's autobiography, ''This Mum Runs'', Journey to keep me company because the elite athlete’s account of the Olympics, injury, family, and life in general falls nothing short Recollections of inspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100432</amazonuk>}}{{newreview, Setting Twelve Verified World Records|author=Jonathan S Lee|title=Lean GainsStuart Burrell

|summary=I donThe first of Stuart Burrell's world records, well, the first two, actually, as he't often begin s not a book man to do things by telling you what it ''isn't'' but halves, came about by accident. There had been a plan to raise some money for the Children in this case I think it's important. If you're Need Charity and quite late on the people who were to have been the main attraction got a fairly sedentary person or better offer and Burrell is not a casual sportsman or woman looking man to shed a few pounds then you won't get the best out of this booklet people down. You'll find What could be done to bring people in and raise some good advice about dietmoney? Most of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, but I'm afraid that much Burrell had made a hobby of escapology and idea of a sponsored escape had life breathed into it is going to go over your head. Of course you could always take up a sport seriously... On the other hand3 November 2002, if you ''are'' a serious sportsman then you could find that he went for the advice Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in One Hour. Both were successful and more than £300 was raised for Children in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the next level of performanceNeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463493X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael LongLandreth_Swell|title=The Mock OlympianSwell |author=Jenny Landreth|rating=45

|summary=It started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael LongI love Jenny's friend Sarah gave him a own description of her book as part of his birthday presenta waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own. It was This is more than just (I say ''Time Outjust's'' guide to the history !) a recollection of the Olympics and author's own encounters with water; it covered each 's also a history of women's fight for the summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896right to swim. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael didThat sounds absurd until you start reading about it, he'd probably have run in most of the Olympic citiesthen it becomes serious. Although Long had done Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a goodly number of runs, bike rides and triathlons he'd only competed in two lover of the twenty three cities - London and Athensabsurd. Now most Not a lover of us would have left it at thatbook blurbs myself, but that's not the Michael Long you're going I do always seek to come give a shout-out to know and love. He saw those who get it as a dead right: in this case, I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's 'challenge'giggles-on-the-commute funny' and what's more he blogged about it and then wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662887</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave RobertsOakeshott_Derby|title=Home A Guide to the Classics: Or How to Pick the Derby Winner|author=Guy Griffith and AwayMichael Oakeshott

|summary= For most football fans, non-league clubs (It's not often that isyou get a glimpse into the personal, teams who play outside youthful interests of one of the top four divisions greatest Conservative philosophers of English football) are like a distant relative fallen on hard times; youthe twentieth century, but ''re vaguely aware of their existence but have no particular wish A Guide to visit them. Apart from a few weeks in early January, when the odd nonClassics'' co-league club reaches the third round of the FA cup and embarks on authored by Michael Oakeshott is a spot of giant killing, light-hearted look at how to pick the lower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of devoted supportersDerby winner. So what's Originally written in 1936 it like to support a non-league team? Enter Dave Robertsis, amazingly, a fan of Bromley FC who are currently plying their trade in the Vanarama National League – the fifth tier of English footballas relevant today as it was then. In Home and Awayfact, Dave documents the highs techniques and lows analysis employed by the authors were way ahead of travelling the country watching Bromley during the 2015/2016 seasontheir time and have only come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>059307680X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher McGrathGibbons_Game|title=Mr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 HorsesThe Beautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons|rating=54

|summary=All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of just three stallions which came to England Football is all about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, The Darley Arabian and The Godolphin Arabianits colours. The last century or so has seen a decline And even if I write in the lines season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the first and last throne of these stallionsEnglish football, it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to wear. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the extent Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and that some 95% it had been one of all thoroughbreds worldwide - not just their own making? And while we're on about colour, where were the people of colour in football in England - the olden days? There are descended from The Darley Arabian, which was originally bought in Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and shipped so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to Yorkshire in 1704, by Thomas Darley, who died, in difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549830</amazonuk>make a young lad question the whole game…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea MillsAskwith_Today|title=Top Of The League |rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Football is known as 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 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 the day I feel that Today We Die a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the everymanLittle: Emil Zatopek, 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>}}{{newreviewOlympic Legend to Cold War Hero|author=Julia Bradbury|title=Unforgettable WalksRichard Askwith

|genre=TravelSport|summary=As a runner myself, I've long been a fan often look for sources of Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in walking - inspiration. Training is rewarding, but every so the news that there would shortly be another series of programmes ''and'' often a book to accompany the series was music to my earsday comes along when I question whether it is all worth it or not. This time she's looking at Britain's best walks with a view and she roams through DorsetZatopek proves that is, the Cotswoldsindeed, Angleseyall worth it. He put copious amounts of effort into his training, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lakes, Cumbria, the South Downs and the Peak District. Unless you're in Scotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, with number of races he won over his career as a good spread around all points professional athlete clearly shows the results of the compassit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784298840</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Guy MartinPavey_Mum|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>}}{{newreviewThis Mum Runs|author=A P McCoy|title=Winner: My Racing LifeJo Pavey

|summary=Mere mortals relax by having I am something of a game of footy self-confessed running addict: I think nothing of hitting the roads for 50 miles a weekend week, and a couple spend much of drinksmy time searching for races to run all over the country. That is, but what does until I wound up with a professional sportsman do to cut loose? What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at persistent sports injury, hung up my running shoes for nearly a rape trial of an Australian Rules footballeryear, just into his twenties and follows switched the case as it goes road to court, interviewing some of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areasthe pool. In deference to At the fact that time I thought nothing could alleviate the woman misery of not being able to run; but now I wish I had automatic anonymity shehad Jo Pavey's chosen autobiography, ''This Mum Runs'', to give keep me company because the man who was charged the name elite athlete’s account of 'Justin' in an attempt to level the playing fieldOlympics, injury, family, so to speak. You could Google the facts and come up with the correct namelife, in general, but this isn't a book of gossip about particular people. It's an investigation falls nothing short of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commoditiesinspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeff ScottLee_Lean|title=Born to RumbleLean Gains|author=Jonathan S Lee

|summary=I don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't'Rumble'but in this case I think it's important. ItIf you's an odd word, isn't it, with that sense of re a fairly sedentary person or a noise like thunder (casual sportsman or even of woman looking to shed a motorcycle engine) few pounds then you won't get the best out of this book. You'and'll find some good advice about diet but I' m afraid that much of it is going to go over your head. Of course you could always take up a street fight between rival gangssport seriously... Author Jeff Scott has picked On the perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the combination of brakeless bikesother hand, adrenalin, ridiculous speeds and not if you ''are'' a lot of space explode into confrontation on or off serious sportsman then you could find that the track. Itadvice in ''s hardly surprising that it happens - in fact itLean Gains's surprising that it doesn't happen more often given the competitive nature of the sport and could lift you up to the diva-like qualities of some next level of the top ridersperformance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861849</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Red SzellLong_Mock|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>}}{{newreviewMock Olympian|author=Jeff Scott and Rachael Adams|title=Strictly Shale: Circling British SpeedwayMichael Long|rating=4.5

|summary=When I was young I remember Speedway being It started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him a regular item on Saturday sport programmes on televisionbook as part of his birthday present. My father It was an aficionado and loved Time Out's guide to the noise, history of the risk Olympics and the sheer energy it covered each of the sport - my mother less so and she quoted summer Olympics in chronological order from the noise and inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all the strong possibility running Michael did, he'd probably have run in most of there being 'the Olympic cities. Although Long had done a nasty accidentgoodly number of runs, bike rides and triathlons he' when d only competed in two of the riders slid their motorcycles sidewaystwenty-three cities - London and Athens. It is still on television Now most of us would have left it at that, but Ithat's not the Michael Long you'll confess re going to come to not having watched for many years know and love. He saw it was for this reason that Jeff Scottas a challenge and what's ''Strictly Shale'' achieved the unusual feat of both being an eye opener more, he blogged about it and bringing back long-forgotten memoriesthen wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861830</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom PalmerRoberts_Home|title=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 Home 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>}}{{newreview|title=Slow Getting UpAway|author=Nate JacksonDave Roberts

|summary=The fly leaf suggests For most football fans, non-league clubs (that this Bluffer's Guide is , teams who play outside the way to instantly acquire all the knowledge which top four divisions of English football) are like a distant relative fallen on hard times; you need to pass as an expert in the ''arcane and labyrinthine'' world re vaguely aware of golftheir existence but have no particular wish to visit them. There's quite Apart from a bit there that I'd agree on few weeks in early January, when the odd non- league club reaches the third round of the rules (FA cup and to an unfortunate extent embarks on a spot of giant-killing, the lower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of devoted supporters. So what''attitudes'') are arcane and they seem s it like to take support a lifetime to masternon-league team? Enter Dave Roberts, but there's a surprising amount fan of Bromley FC who are currently plying their trade in the Vanarama National League – the fifth tier of information tucked away inside this little bookEnglish football. What I might quibble with is whether or not you would In ''pass as an expertHome and Away'' (which suggests that you're something , Dave documents the highs and lows of a con man): there's enough detail here to give you a solid grounding without needing to blufftravelling the country watching Bromley during the 2015/2016 season.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909365327</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's BerlinMcgrath_Darley|author=Daniel James Brown|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summarytitle=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 worldMr Darley's best to win gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsArabian: High Life, 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 hardshipLow Life, 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 Sporting Life: A History of the weather and water against him, all Racing 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>}}{{newreview|title=Running Like A Girl25 Horses|author=Alexandra HeminsleyChristopher McGrath

|summary=Running is awful. So starts Heminsley's book All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of just three stallions which came to England about runningthree hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, The Darley Arabian and The Godolphin Arabian. And she's The last century or so has seen a decline in the lines from the first and last of these stallions, to the extent that some 95% of all thoroughbreds worldwide - not wrongjust 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>0099558955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mills_Top|title=Who Invented Top Of The Stepover? (And Other Crucial Football Conundrums)League|author=Paul Simpson and Uli HesseAndrea Mills|rating=43.5

|summary=In 1982Football is known as 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 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, second division Charlton Athletic staged an unlikely transfer coup by signing former European Footballer but the day I feel that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the Year Allan Simonseneveryman, will be a sad one. If Perhaps the thought love of football still burns bright in the Danish superstar forsaking youth of today? ''Top Of the glamour League'' certainly hopes so as it is full of Barcelona for south east London seemed unlikely then consider that Simonsen had previously faked his own death during a World Cup qualifierfacts and figures all about the ball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry RedknappBradbury_Walks|title=Harry: My AutobiographyUnforgettable Walks|author=Julia Bradbury|rating=4.5

|summary=Everybody with an interest in football knows who I''Harry'' is. The cover ve long been a fan of his book wonJulia Bradbury't tell you who he is, but if you're not s walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in walking - so the know it's Harry Redknapp - football manager news that there would shortly be another series of programmes and for many of us, something of a national treasurebook to accompany the series was music to my ears. HeThis time she's the manager wholooking at Britain's seen it all, having started at rock bottom - best walks with a 70s Portakabin at Oxford City - view and risen to she roams through Dorset, the heights of managing Tottenham Hotspur in Cotswolds, Anglesey, the Premiership. At Yorkshire Dales, the same time he was Lakes, Cumbria, the popular choice for South Downs and the England ManagerPeak District. Unless you's job when Capello threw re in the towel. ItScotland there's fair to say that Harry has lived his football life something reasonably close to just about everyone, with a good spread around all points of the full and anyone buying this book will get their money's worthcompass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091917875</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim WhiteMartin_When|title=Premier League: A History in 10 MatchesWhen You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin

|summary=I go back to the days It's a little depressing when the pinnacle of footballing achievement was to be in Division 1a 34-year-old is publishing his second autobiography, but the stadia that's what this book is, and the stands were downmarketMartin proves he's certainly not short on material. Standing - pushingThe author, for those of you who don't know, shoving and fighting - was the norm is a mechanic who dabbles in TV presenting and motorcycle racing, though it wasn't s the place latter for a family outingwhich he will be most well-known. You could get into As an F1 widow to a match for less than a fiver boy who likes all things fast, I thought he might like this book and top footballers earned less than four times the average wage. All that changed so, perhaps unusually, I chose it with someone else in 1993 with the birth of the Premier 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 wagemind but made myself read it first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781854300</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Twirlymen: The Unlikley History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers|author=Amol Rajan|rating=3.5|genre=Sport|summaryisbn=Although they may lack the bang and bluster of the fast bowlers, the three leading wicket takers of all time in Test cricket are all spinners. They may look calmer in their run ups and action, but the effect they put on the ball can be incredible. Rather than blasting a batsman out, they bamboozle them. That's why Amol Rajan thinks them deserving of a book all of their own, and ''Twirlymen'' is the result of that belief.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083252</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John D BarrowMccoy_Winner|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>}}{{newreviewWinner: My Racing Life|author=Gavin Mortimer|title=A History of Cricket in 100 ObjectsP McCoy

|summary=[[A History In any walk of Football in 100 Objects life, there are people who are universally known by Gavin Mortimer|A History of Football their first names alone. In flat racing, everyone knows who 'Frankie' is and in 100 Objects]] was a brave attemptNational Hunt, but was slightly let down by being a little too clinicalyou need to say no more than 'A.P. ' Being a game imbued with passion, Legend is an over-used word but not when it comes to the book lacked this which took some achievements of the edge off itTony 'A.P.' McCoy. CricketHe's been champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and his career record of 4, whilst inspiring passion amongst devotees348 wins may never be beaten. In fact, has a slightly more laid back following; one it's tempting to say that may work better in this formatit will ''never'' be beaten. That said He's won the Grand National, being the Irish Grand National, two Cheltenham Gold Cups and won the Champion Hurdle three times. Unusually for a game that has jockey, he's also been played for five centuries, narrowing it down to just 100 objects is no less an undertaking than for footballBBC Sports Personality of the Year. He achieved all this by the age of forty one when he retired from racing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689406</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen RocheKrien_Night|title=Born Night Games: A Journey to Ride: The Autobiography the Dark Side of Stephen RocheSport|author=Anna Krien|rating=4.5

|summary=With all Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a weekend and 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 follows the revelations about case as it goes to court, interviewing some of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. In deference to the fact that the systemised doping culture surrounding Lance Armstrongwoman had automatic anonymity, she's team in chosen to give the 1990s, it man who was interesting to read a story charged the name of a time before cycling was embroiled in one drugs scandal after another. Although perhaps not as memorable as Armstrong's career, Stephen RocheJustin Dyer's will hold a place in cycling history for 1987, when he became only the second man an attempt to win level the Tour de Franceplaying field, so to speak. You could Google the Giro D'Italia facts and come up with the World Championships in the same seasoncorrect name, but this isn't a book of gossip about particular people. A quarter It's an investigation of a century after that remarkable feat, Roche culture which has produced his autobiography, ''Born to Ride''increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091905</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin MortimerScott_Born|title=A History of Football in 100 ObjectsBorn to Rumble|author=Jeff Scott

|summary=Given how long it''Rumble''. It's been played and how many books have been written about an odd word, isn't it, any new history with that sense of football needs to have some kind a noise like thunder (or even of hook to make it stand out. Gavin Mortimer may have found that, by presenting his history as a motorcycle engine) ''A History of Football in 100 Objectsand''of a street fight between rival gangs. This prompts Author Jeff Scott has picked the question as to whether perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the whole of football could be reduced down to a mere century combination of objects. But thenbrakeless bikes, if [[From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries by Chris Waring]] can make a history of maths worth readingadrenalin, I guess anything is possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250618</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Martin Kelner|title=Sit Down ridiculous speeds and Cheer: A History not a lot of Sport space explode into a confrontation on TV|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=Like many English sports fans, the majority of the calories I burn are used up by shouting at the TV and occasionally going to the shops for more beer and crisps. Sports books tend to be about the sport itself or biographies of those who expended great effort to reach off the top of their chosen sporttrack. But in Martin KelnerIt's 'Sit Down and Cheer: A History of Sport on TV', there is finally a book for the less energetic among us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140812923X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clare Balding|title=My Animals and Other Family|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Clare Balding was born into a racing family hardly surprising that it happens - her father, Ian, was the trainer of Mill Reef who won the Derby in 1971fact, 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 Baldingsurprising that it doesn's life: t happen more often given the family had to adjust accordingly. He was a gifted and successful trainer who understood competitive nature of the animals in his care sport and his record, including Mill Reef's Derby success speaks for itself. Clare's childhood was separate from the life diva-like qualities of some of the racing stable but she inherited her family's love of animalstop riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921467</amazonuk>