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[[Category:New Reviews|Sport]] ==Sport==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LaneHurst_Norfolk|title=England 'Til I Die - A celebration of England's amazing supportersOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst|rating=3.54|genre=SportArt|summary=To start It was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with, an admissionhour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottage. I am There was an English fan of footballart exhibition in the church hall, but I am not so we went in - and found a fan display of England’s football squad. Hardly ever would I prefer to see the Three Lions triumphantmost gorgeous pictures. I never got into the habit'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, partly because but thought that I would have to make do with a couple of greetings cards when I never 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|summary=''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the singularly English habit Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of supporting the underdog development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as making any sensediverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Plus you'll never get me standing up Think of a sport and singing that awful tune before the matcha pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. But here are testimonies from twenty or so people who see things completely differently to meEach entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906796505</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FeinsteinBurrell_12|title=Moment of GloryTwelve Times To The Max: The Year Tiger Lost His Swing One Man's Journey to, and Underdogs Ruled the MajorsRecollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World Records|author=Stuart Burrell

|summary=Despite the picture The first of Tiger Woods on Stuart Burrell's world records, well, the dust jacket this book is only incidentally first two, actually, as he's not a man to do things by halves, came about himby accident. Between 2000 and 2002 Woods There had dominated top-class golf, winning six of been a plan to raise some money for the twelve majors. But he's always after improvement Children in Need Charity and he sacked his swing coach quite late on the people who were to have been the main attraction got a better offer and turned Burrell is not a man to someone newlet people down. The swing is the engine 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 golfer's game hobby of escapology and tinkering with idea of a good swing has major implicationssponsored escape had life breathed into it. For Woods it meant that On 3 November 2002, he floundered out of went for the big money Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in 2003One Hour. For everyone else it meant that there Both were chances to be taken. You might have expected that it would be the established stars who took advantage, but it wasn't to besuccessful and more than £300 was raised for Children in Need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442455</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catrine ClayLandreth_Swell|title=Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup LegendSwell |author=Jenny Landreth|rating=4.5|genre=BiographySport|summary=I love Jenny'You have to learn to be hard men, to accept sacrifice without ever succumbing's own description of her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own. Such did Hitler This is more than just (I say at ''just''!) a recollection of the Nuremberg Nazi Party rallies in author's own encounters with water; it's also a history of women's fight for the 1930sright to swim. He probably did not have in mind playing in goal at a FA Cup final with a broken neckThat sounds absurd until you start reading about it, such then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is the lifetime clearly a lover of difference between the two referencesabsurd. But that lifetimeNot a lover of book blurbs myself, as packed and varied as I do always seek to give a shout-out to those who get it was, is dead right: in the pages of this evercase, I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-interesting and swiftlyon-the-devoured bookcommute funny''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224082884</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul R Spiring (Editor)Oakeshott_Derby|title=Rugby Football during A Guide to the Nineteenth CenturyClassics: A Collection of Contemporary Essays about Or How to Pick the Game by Bertram Fletcher RobinsonDerby Winner|author=Guy Griffith and Michael Oakeshott|rating=3.54

|summary=The mid-nineteenth century represented It's not often that you get a glimpse into the personal, youthful interests of one of the sporting equivalent greatest Conservative philosophers of the twentieth century, but 'big bang' in terms of winter sports in England, giving rise A Guide to the development of what today we call rugby union, football and rugby league, all from the same origin. Perhaps due Classics'' co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is a light-hearted look at how to its popularity amongst the public schools of the day, rugby union for many years claimed the moral high ground, advocating amateurism and an emphasis on playing pick the game rather than providing a public spectacleDerby winner. Indeed, the arguments over the dangers of professionalismOriginally written in 1936 it is, which initially led to the split into rugby league from the Northern clubsamazingly, continued in union for well over a hundred years right up to the former England captain Will Carling's description of the powers that be of the RFU as 'old farts'relevant today as it was then. In 1896 Bertrand Fletcher Robinsonfact, together with contributions from a few leading players of the day, wrote Rugby Football which was the first volume in a successful nine-part series on Sports techniques and Pastimes that was written for the Isthmian Library. This edition is effectively a facsimile of that book, with analysis employed by the addition authors were way ahead of an introduction, penned by Patrick Casey their time and Hugh Cooke and compiled by Paul Springhave only come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190431287X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael LewisGibbons_Game|title=The Blind SideBeautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons

|summary=Football is all about its colours. And even if I think my husband was a little taken aback to see me curled up on write in the sofa engrossed season when one team in blue knocks another team in a book about American Football. I suppose I should admit that I didn't actually know it was going to be about American Football. Wellblue from the throne of English football, I knew it was about a boy who ''played'' American Football, but I'd thought s common knowledge that was just going red is the more successful colour to be wear. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the background story, you know, like Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? And while we''Jerry Maguire''. So the first chapter seemed to go re on and on foreverabout colour, and I thought my head might pop from reading about quarterbacks and blind sides and plays and offence and defence and running statistics...but then somehow I stumbled to where were the real heart people of colour in football in the story; the story of Michael Oher, olden days? There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to make a young African-American from lad question the slums of Memphis whose father was never around, and whose mother was a drug addict and lost him to social services at a young age.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039333838X</amazonuk>whole game…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Casey and Richard I HaleAskwith_Today|title=For CollegeToday We Die a Little: Emil Zatopek, Club & Country - A History of Clifton Rugby Football ClubOlympic Legend to Cold War Hero|author=Richard Askwith

|genre=HistorySport|summary=Clifton Rugby Football Club can proudly trace its history back to the very emergence As a runner myself, I often look for sources of the sport of rugby unioninspiration. Founded in September 1872Training is rewarding, the same year but every so often a day comes along when I question whether it is all worth it or not. Zatopek proves that William Webb Ellisis, who is reputed to have been the rebellious Rugby schoolboy who first ran with the ballindeed, diedall worth it. In realityHe put copious amounts of effort into his training, it is highly likely that and the Webb Ellis story is something number of races he won over his career as a spin job on behalf professional athlete clearly shows the results of Rugby School, although it did mean that Rugby School was able to impose its rules on the game at a time when most public schools had their own rules for playing versions of the game.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312756</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Allen Pavey_Mum|title=Where Are They Now? - Rediscovering Over 100 Football Stars of the 70s and 80s This Mum Runs|author=Jo Pavey|rating=4.5

|summary=This looks like some people's worst idea I am something of a bookself-confessed running addict: I think nothing of hitting the roads for 50 miles a week, everand spend much of my time searching for races to run all over the country. TriviaThat is, nostalgiauntil I wound up with a persistent sports injury, footballhung up my running shoes for nearly a year, and lists - does it get more masculine? Thereswitched 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 not a female in sightautobiography, either''This Mum Runs'', as we get 101 portraits to keep me company because the elite athlete’s account of footballers from times pastthe Olympics, injury, family, and most importantlylife, in general, a summary falls nothing short of their career since hanging up the boots in the professional gameinspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905156421</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philippe Auclair Lee_Lean|title=Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be KingLean Gains|author=Jonathan S Lee

|summary=Even though Idon'm not t often begin a Manchester United fan, Eric Cantona is one of my all time favourite players and book by telling you what it ''isn't'' but in this case I was really excited think it's important. If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking to shed a few pounds then you won't get the opportunity best out of this book. You'll find some good advice about diet but I'm afraid that much of it is going to read go over your head. Of course you could always take up a book which was billed as revealing his innermost thoughtssport seriously... On the other hand, and being if you ''are'' a serious sportsman then you could find that the advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the definitive account next level of his careerperformance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706347</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Merry and Steve Emecz Long_Mock|title=Enabled: One Disabled Woman's Incredible Story of Tackling Her Disability in Pursuit of a Lifelong DreamThe Mock Olympian|author=Michael Long|rating=3.54|genre=AutobiographySport|summary=Ruth Merry has never been your common-or-garden young ladyIt 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. Born with no ability It was Time Out's guide to move her legs, the history of the Olympics and moreit 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, due to he'd probably have run in most of the Olympic cities. Although Long had done a condition called arthrogryposisgoodly number of runs, she still became an avid equestrian, downhill skier, competitive swimmer, fundbike rides and triathlons he'd only competed in two of the twenty-three cities -raiser London and moreAthens. At the beginning Now most of this book a flippant comment inspires anotherus would have left it at that, future dream - but that of 's not the Michael Long you're going down in to come to know and love. He saw it as a four-man bobsleighchallenge and what's more, he blogged about it and then wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312322</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wendy KendallRoberts_Home|title=Wind Driven: Barbara Kendall's StoryHome and Away|author=Dave Roberts

|genre=BiographySport|summary=Barbara Kendell For most football fans, non-league clubs (that is an extraordinary woman, 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. She has not only won windsurfing medals at three OlympicsApart from a few weeks in early January, she is when the odd non-league club reaches the third round of the FA cup and embarks on a motherspot of giant-killing, an IOC representative, public speaker and mentorthe lower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of devoted supporters. This biographySo what's it like to support a non-league team? Enter Dave Roberts, written by her sister, tells a fan of Bromley FC who are currently plying their trade in the Vanarama National League – the inspiring story fifth tier of an extraordinary woman who overcame her personal challenges English football. In ''Home and remains at Away'', Dave documents the top highs and lows of her sport after twenty years of competitiontravelling the country watching Bromley during the 2015/2016 season.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>186979043X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave RobertsMcgrath_Darley|title=The Bromley BoysMr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses|author=Christopher McGrath|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographySport|summary=Most football fans (except my brotherAll thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of just three stallions which came to England about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, who refuses to have anything to do with anything that The Darley Arabian and The Godolphin Arabian. The last century or so has anything to do with seen a decline in the Arsenal) will have read ''Fever Pitch'' by Nick Hornby. It's lines from the definitive book on what it's like first and last of these stallions, to be a bloke who also supports a football team. It's also quite funny. It influenced every subsequent book about what it's like to be a football supporter. It also gave birth to a genre the extent that some 95% of writing that 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''in difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse home. Until now.|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>