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[[Category:New Reviews|Sport]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=Hurst_Norfolk|title=On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=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 keys to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in - and found a display of the most gorgeous pictures. 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 ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and I couldn't resist buying it.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ignotofsky_Sport|title=Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction__NOTOC__|summary=''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Burrell_12|title=Twelve Times To The Max: One Man's Journey to, and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World Records|author=Patrick Casey Stuart Burrell|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=The first of Stuart Burrell's world records, well, the first two, actually, as he's not a man to do things by halves, came about by accident. There had been a plan to raise some money for the Children in Need Charity and quite late on the people who were to have been the main attraction got a better offer and Burrell is not a man to let people down. What could be done to bring people in and raise some money? Most of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, but Burrell had made a hobby of escapology and Richard I Haleidea of a sponsored escape had life breathed into it. On 3 November 2002, he went for the Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in One Hour. Both were successful and more than £300 was raised for Children in Need.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Landreth_Swell|title=For CollegeSwell |author=Jenny Landreth|rating=5|genre=Sport|summary=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''!) a recollection of the author's own encounters with water; it's also a history of women's fight for the right to swim. That sounds absurd until you start reading about it, Club & Country then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of the absurd. Not a lover of book blurbs myself, I do always seek to give a shout- out to those who get it dead right: in this case, I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-the-commute funny''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Oakeshott_Derby|title=A History of Clifton Rugby Football ClubGuide to the Classics: Or How to Pick the Derby Winner|author=Guy Griffith and Michael Oakeshott

|genre=HistorySport|summary=Clifton Rugby Football Club can proudly trace its history back to It's not often that you get a glimpse into the very emergence personal, youthful interests of one of the sport greatest Conservative philosophers of rugby union. Founded in September 1872the twentieth century, but ''A Guide to the same year that William Webb Ellis, who Classics'' co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is reputed a light-hearted look at how to have been the rebellious Rugby schoolboy who first ran with pick the ball, diedDerby winner. In reality, Originally written in 1936 it is highly likely that the Webb Ellis story is something of a spin job on behalf of Rugby School, although amazingly, as relevant today as it did mean that Rugby School was able to impose its rules on then. In fact, the techniques and analysis employed by the game at a authors were way ahead of their time when most public schools had their own rules for playing versions of the gameand have only come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312756</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Allen Gibbons_Game|title=Where Are They Now? - Rediscovering Over 100 Football Stars of the 70s and 80s The Beautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons|rating=4.5

|summary=This looks like some people's worst idea 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 book, ever. Trivia, nostalgia, English football, and lists - does it get 's common knowledge that red is the more masculinesuccessful colour to wear. But is that flame red? Blood red? There's not The red of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a female in sight, either, as we get 101 portraits of footballers from times past, tragedy – and most importantly, a summary that it had been one of their career since hanging up own making? And while we're on about colour, where were the boots people of colour in football in the professional game.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905156421</amazonuk>olden days? There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question the whole game…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philippe Auclair Askwith_Today|title=CantonaToday We Die a Little: The Rebel Who Would Be KingEmil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War Hero|author=Richard Askwith

|summary=Even though As a runner myself, I often look for sources of inspiration. Training is rewarding, but every so often a day comes along when I'm question whether it is all worth it or not a Manchester United fan. Zatopek proves that is, indeed, Eric Cantona is one all worth it. He put copious amounts of my all time favourite players and I was really excited to get the opportunity to read a book which was billed as revealing effort into his innermost thoughtstraining, and being the definitive account number of races he won over his careeras a professional athlete clearly shows the results of it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706347</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Merry and Steve Emecz Pavey_Mum|title=Enabled: One Disabled Woman's Incredible Story of Tackling Her Disability in Pursuit of a Lifelong DreamThis Mum Runs|author=Jo Pavey|rating=3.54|genre=AutobiographySport|summary=Ruth Merry has never been your commonI am something of a self-or-garden young lady. Born with no ability to move her legsconfessed running addict: I think nothing of hitting the roads for 50 miles a week, and morespend much of my time searching for races to run all over the country. That is, due to until I wound up with a condition called arthrogryposispersistent sports injury, she still became an avid equestrian, downhill skier, competitive swimmerhung up my running shoes for nearly a year, fund-raiser and moreswitched the road to the pool. At the beginning time I thought nothing could alleviate the misery of this book a flippant comment inspires anothernot being able to run; but now I wish I had had Jo Pavey's autobiography, ''This Mum Runs'', future dream - that to keep me company because the elite athlete’s account of going down the Olympics, injury, family, and life, in a four-man bobsleighgeneral, falls nothing short of inspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312322</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wendy KendallLee_Lean|title=Wind Driven: Barbara Kendall's StoryLean Gains|author=Jonathan S Lee

|genre=BiographySport|summary=Barbara Kendell is an extraordinary I don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't'' but in this case I think it's important. If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or womanlooking to shed a few pounds then you won't get the best out of this book. She has not only won windsurfing medals at three Olympics, she You'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 mother, an IOC representative, public speaker and mentorsport seriously... This biography On the other hand, written by her sister, tells if you ''are'' a serious sportsman then you could find that the inspiring story of an extraordinary woman who overcame her personal challenges and remains at advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the top of her sport after twenty years next level of competitionperformance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>186979043X</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=Long_Mock|title=The Mock Olympian|author=Michael Long|rating=4|genre=Sport|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 Out's 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 running Michael did, he'd probably have run in most of the Olympic cities. Although 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 the 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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Home|title=Home and Away

|title=The Bromley Boys|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographySport|summary=Most For most football fans , non-league clubs (except my brotherthat is, teams who refuses to have anything to do with anything that has anything to do with play outside the Arsenaltop four divisions of English football) will are like a distant relative fallen on hard times; you're vaguely aware of their existence but have read ''Fever Pitch'' by Nick Hornbyno particular wish to visit them. It's Apart from a few weeks in early January, when the odd non-league club reaches the third round of the definitive book FA cup and embarks on a spot of giant-killing, the lower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of devoted supporters. So what it's it like to be support a non-league team? Enter Dave Roberts, a bloke fan of Bromley FC who also supports a are currently plying their trade in the Vanarama National League – the fifth tier of English football team. ItIn 's also quite funny'Home and Away'', Dave documents the highs and lows of travelling the country watching Bromley during the 2015/2016 season. It influenced every subsequent book about what it}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mcgrath_Darley|title=Mr Darley's like Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses|author=Christopher McGrath|rating=5|genre=Sport|summary=All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of just three stallions which came to be a football supporterEngland about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, The Darley Arabian and The Godolphin Arabian. It also gave birth to The last century or so has seen a genre decline in the lines from the first and last of writing these stallions, to the extent that some 95% of all thoroughbreds worldwide - not just in England - are descended from The Darley Arabian, which was subsequently termed 'lad lit'. Despite its imitatorsoriginally bought in Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and shipped to Yorkshire in 1704, by Thomas Darley, who died, nothing has been as good as ''Fever Pitch''. Until nowin difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906032246</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim HarrisMills_Top|title=Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted To KnowTop Of The League|author=Andrea Mills

|summary=We all know oneFootball is known as the beautiful game and when I was younger I kind of believed this. Someone who can tell you who was the last player to score a hat trick for Accrington Stanley away I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home to Grimsby on a Wednesday night in Januarytry and complete my Panini sticker album. This There was just a random example, by even the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the waytitle. As I have grown older, so please don't write in with the answermy cynicism has grown too. The kind Leicester may be champions, but the day I feel that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of person who slightly richer multimillionaires is wonderful to have on your side at a Quiz Nightwin for the everyman, but who you donwill be a sad one. Perhaps the love of football still burns bright in the youth of today? ''Top Of the League''t really want to be getting into conversation with if you can avoid certainly hopes so as itis full of facts and figures all about the ball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224080210</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rowan SimonsBradbury_Walks|title=Bamboo GoalpostsUnforgettable Walks|author=Julia Bradbury|rating=4

|summary=When it comes to football, I'm ve long been a fan of Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in agreement with walking - so the great Bill Shankly when he said: ''Football is not a matter news that there would shortly be another series of life programmes and death, ita book to accompany the series was music to my ears. This time she's far more important than thatlooking at Britain''. When it comes to Chinas best walks with a view and she roams through Dorset, my knowledge is limited to what I've seen on the TV recently about Cotswolds, Anglesey, the earthquakeYorkshire Dales, the Olympics and Lakes, Cumbria, the protests; vague memories of Tiananmen Square South Downs and a love of the cuisine, or at least the version that comes from my local takeawayPeak District. Like many Unless you're in the Western worldScotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, I have no concept with a good spread around all points of what life is truly like in Chinathe compass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230703720</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Plimpton Martin_When|title=Paper LionWhen You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin|rating=4.5

|summary=Many It's a little depressing when a sports fan has dreamt of taking five wickets at Lord34-year-old is publishing his second autobiography, but that's what this book is, and Martin proves he's or scoring the winning goal at the FA Cup Final at Wembleycertainly not short on material. For writer and American football aficionado George Plimpton that implausible fantasy became The author, for those of you who don't know, is a reality.  Despite being 36 years old mechanic who dabbles in TV presenting and possessing precisely zero in footballing credentialsmotorcycle racing, Plimpton was determined to find out what though it would take to become a pro quarterback with one of America's premier clubs, the Detroit Lionslatter for which he will be most well-known. Paper Lion tells the story of his incredible adventureAs an F1 widow to a boy who likes all things fast, I thought he might like this book and so, perhaps unusually, I chose it with someone else in mind but made myself read it first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1599210053</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cristiano Ronaldo Mccoy_Winner|title=MomentsWinner: My Racing Life|author=A P McCoy|rating=3.54

|summary=For football fans the name In any walk of Cristiano Ronaldo conjures images of Manchester United and the famous number 7 shirt worn life, there are people who are universally known by the likes of David Beckhamtheir first names alone. In flat racing, Eric Cantona, Bryan Robson everyone knows who 'Frankie' is and George Best in National Hunt, you need to say no more than 'A.P.' Legend is an over-used word but not when it comes to the pastachievements of Tony 'A.P.' McCoy. Originally thought of as nothing more than a nice face and hairstyle heHe's now proving himself to be a footballer of great talent been champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and possibly even the best his career record of his generation4,348 wins may never be beaten. In fact, it's tempting to say that it will 'Moments'never' is not an autobiography but ' be beaten. He's won the Grand National, the Irish Grand National, two Cheltenham Gold Cups and won the Champion Hurdle three times. Unusually for a series jockey, he's also been BBC Sports Personality of snapshots the Year. He achieved all this by the age of his lifeforty one when he retired from racing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330457705</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Renton LaidlawKrien_Night|title=The R&Night Games: A Golfer's Handbook Journey to the Dark Side of Sport|author=Anna Krien

|summary=Renton LaidlawMere 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, former golf correspondent just into his twenties and follows the case as it goes to court, interviewing some of The ''Evening Standard'' those directly or indirectly involved and respected commentator has been editing ''The R & A Golferdigressing into related areas. In deference to the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity, she's Handbookchosen to give the man who was charged the name of 'Justin Dyer' for ten yearsin an attempt to level the playing field, so to speak. ItYou could Google the facts and come up with the correct name, but this isn's t a veritable brick book of a book and provides intelligent reading for anyone who is serious gossip about the game, be they enthusiastic spectator, dedicated amateur or professionalparticular people. It's not an investigation of a book to read through but one culture which will provide hours of browsinghas increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704492</amazonuk>

 {{newreview Frontpage|isbn=Scott_Born|title=You'll Win Nothing With KidsBorn to Rumble|author=Jim WhiteJeff Scott|rating=4

|rating=4|summary=Jim White has coached his son''Rumble''. It's football team for the past six years. He is an odd word, isn't it, with that touchline wallysense of a noise like thunder (or even of a motorcycle engine) ''and'' of a street fight between rival gangs. He is Author Jeff Scott has picked the man who makes you nudge your neighbour in perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the sparsely-populated standcombination of brakeless bikes, adrenalin, point him out ridiculous speeds and say "Watch himnot a lot of space explode into a confrontation on or off the track. Look at him now. Ha. Oh. Oh my lord. What It's he doing?" That is Jim White. Father and son and football. They love hardly surprising that it. They hate it. They obsess over it. They argue. It's probably the only time they exchange more than three words to one another happens - in an entire week. It takes over the entire house. And nowfact, it's even made surprising that it into a bookdoesn't happen more often given the competitive nature of the sport and the diva-like qualities of some of the top riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316029823</amazonuk>