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[[Category:New Reviews|Sport]] ==Sport==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Royal and AncientHurst_Norfolk|title=Decisions on the Rules of Golf 2010 - 2011On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst|rating=4.5|genre=SportArt|summary=The rules of golf are complexIt was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, but designed so that they give no unfair advantages or disadvantages left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to any players across our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the full range church hall, so we went in - and found a display of abilitiesthe most gorgeous pictures. Followed faithfully I'd cheerfully have bought every one and honestly they should ensure hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to make do with a fair couple of greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and comfortable game for allI couldn't resist buying it. But times have changed and there are always situations which are not explicitly covered by }}{{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 rulesWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. The Royal and Ancient receives over three thousand written requests for clarification each year – It celebrates a century and these are not frivolous requests since they will only be considered if they are submitted by a representative half of the committee in charge development of women's sport by looking at fifty of the particular competitionits highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. 'Decisions on the Rules Think of Golf' a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is the accumulated wisdom on situations which might be considered ambiguousa double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>060062045X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael HutchinsonBurrell_12|title=Missing the BoatTwelve Times To The Max: Chasing a Childhood Sailing DreamOne Man's Journey to, and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World Records|author=Stuart Burrell

|summary=As The first of Stuart Burrell's world records, well, the first two, actually, as he's not a youngster in the nineteen eightiesman to do things by halves, Michael Hutchinson was passionate came about sailingby accident. He acquired There had been a dinghy plan to raise some money for the Children in Need Charity and crew, and spent his early years messing around quite late on Belfast Lough. He learned the people who were to sail, race Mirrors and fling jellyfish accurately at passing competitors. In time, his salty daydreams became ambitious, encompassing have been the Olympic Games, America's Cup main attraction got a better offer and Round the World yacht racesBurrell is not a man to let people down. Trouble was, Hutchinson proved What could be done to be a deeply mediocre dinghy sailor, clocking up only one win bring people in several seasons round the buoys. Although he was good enough at race tactics and seamanship, he lacked the sprinkling raise some money? Most of us would have thought of gold dust that differentiates the very good performer from the brilliant. And so eventuallyjumble sales and cake bakes, as is the way but Burrell had made a hobby of sensible young men, he became disenchanted escapology and stopped tryingidea of a sponsored escape had life breathed into it. IronicallyOn 3 November 2002, he then found he had a talent went for cycling which took him as far as the Commonwealth GamesFastest 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552345</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LaneLandreth_Swell|title=England 'Til I Die - A celebration of England's amazing supportersSwell |author=Jenny Landreth|rating=3.5

|summary=To start with, an admissionI 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 am an English fan say ''just''!) a recollection of football, but I am not the author's own encounters with water; it's also a fan history of England’s football squadwomen's fight for the right to swim. Hardly ever would I prefer to see the Three Lions triumphantThat sounds absurd until you start reading about it, then it becomes serious. I never got into the habit, partly Not too serious though – because I never saw the singularly English habit Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of supporting the underdog as making any senseabsurd. Plus youNot 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 ''ll never get me standing up and singing that awful tune before giggles-on-the match. But here are testimonies from twenty or so people who see things completely differently to me-commute funny''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906796505</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FeinsteinOakeshott_Derby|title=Moment of GloryA Guide to the Classics: The Year Tiger Lost His Swing Or How to Pick the Derby Winner|author=Guy Griffith and Underdogs Ruled the MajorsMichael Oakeshott

|summary=Despite It's not often that you get a glimpse into the picture personal, youthful interests of one of Tiger Woods on the dust jacket this book is only incidentally about him. Between 2000 and 2002 Woods had dominated top-class golf, winning six greatest Conservative philosophers of the twelve majors. But hetwentieth century, but ''s always after improvement and he sacked his swing coach and turned A Guide to someone new. The swing is the engine of a golferClassics''s game and tinkering with co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is a good swing has major implicationslight-hearted look at how to pick the Derby winner. For Woods Originally written in 1936 it is, amazingly, as relevant today as it meant that he floundered out of was then. In fact, the techniques and analysis employed by the big money in 2003. For everyone else it meant that there authors were chances to be taken. You might way ahead of their time and have expected that it would be the established stars who took advantage, but it wasn't to beonly come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442455</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catrine ClayGibbons_Game|title=Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup LegendThe Beautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons|rating=4.5|genre=BiographySport|summary='You have to learn to be hard men, to accept sacrifice without ever succumbing'Football is all about its colours. Such did Hitler say at the Nuremberg Nazi Party rallies And even if I write in the 1930s. He probably did not have season when one team in mind playing blue knocks another team in goal at a FA Cup final with a broken neckblue from the throne of English football, such it's common knowledge that red is the lifetime of difference between the two referencesmore successful colour to wear. But is that lifetime, as packed flame red? Blood red? The red of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and varied as that it washad been one of their own making? And while we're on about colour, is where were the people of colour in football in the pages of this ever-interesting and swiftly-devoured book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224082884</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=Paul R Spiring (Editor)Askwith_Today|title=Rugby Football during the Nineteenth CenturyToday We Die a Little: A Collection of Contemporary Essays about the Game by Bertram Fletcher RobinsonEmil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War Hero|author=Richard Askwith|rating=3.54

|summary=The mid-nineteenth century represented the sporting equivalent of the 'big bang' in terms of winter sports in EnglandAs a runner myself, giving rise to the development I often look for sources of what today we call rugby union, football and rugby leagueinspiration. Training is rewarding, but every so often a day comes along when I question whether it is all from the same originworth it or not. Perhaps due to its popularity amongst the public schools of the dayZatopek proves that is, rugby union for many years claimed the moral high groundindeed, advocating amateurism and an emphasis on playing the game rather than providing a public spectacleall worth it. Indeed, the arguments over the dangers He put copious amounts of professionalism, which initially led to the split effort into rugby league from the Northern clubshis training, continued in union for well over a hundred years right up to and the former England captain Will Carling's description number of the powers that be of the RFU races he won over his career as 'old farts'. In 1896 Bertrand Fletcher Robinson, 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 and Pastimes that was written for the Isthmian Library. This edition is effectively a facsimile of that book, with professional athlete clearly shows the addition results of an introduction, penned by Patrick Casey and Hugh Cooke and compiled by Paul Springit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190431287X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael LewisPavey_Mum|title=The Blind SideThis Mum Runs|author=Jo Pavey

|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 husband was a little taken aback time searching for races to see me curled up on run all over the sofa engrossed in a book about American Footballcountry. That is, until I suppose I should admit that I didn't actually know it was going wound up with a persistent sports injury, hung up my running shoes for nearly a year, and switched the road to be about American Footballthe pool. Well, At the time I knew it was about a boy who ''played'' American Football, thought nothing could alleviate the misery of not being able to run; but now Iwish I had had Jo Pavey'd thought that was just going to be the background storys autobiography, you know, like in ''Jerry MaguireThis Mum Runs''. So the first chapter seemed to go on and on forever, 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 keep me company because the real heart elite athlete’s account of the story; the story of Michael OherOlympics, injury, a young African-American from the slums of Memphis whose father was never aroundfamily, and whose mother was a drug addict and lost him to social services at a young agelife, in general, falls nothing short of inspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039333838X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Casey and Richard I HaleLee_Lean|title=For College, Club & Country - A History of Clifton Rugby Football ClubLean Gains|author=Jonathan S Lee

|summary=This looks like some peopleI don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't'' but in this case I think it's worst idea 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 best out of a this book, ever. Trivia, nostalgia, football, and lists - does You'll find some good advice about diet but I'm afraid that much of it get more masculine? is going to go over your head. There's not Of course you could always take up a female in sight, either, as we get 101 portraits of footballers from times past, and most importantlysport seriously... On the other hand, if you ''are'' a summary of their career since hanging up serious sportsman then you could find that the boots advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the professional gamenext level of performance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905156421</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philippe Auclair Long_Mock|title=Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be KingMock Olympian|author=Michael Long

|summary=Even though IIt started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long'm not s friend Sarah gave him a Manchester United fan, Eric Cantona is one book as part of my all time favourite players and I his birthday present. It was really excited Time Out's guide to get the opportunity to read 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 book which was billed as revealing his innermost thoughtsgoodly number of runs, bike rides and being triathlons he'd only competed in two of the definitive account twenty-three cities - London and Athens. Now most of his careerus 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706347</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Merry and Steve Emecz Roberts_Home|title=Enabled: One Disabled Woman's Incredible Story of Tackling Her Disability in Pursuit of a Lifelong Dream|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Ruth Merry has never been your common-or-garden young lady. Born with no ability to move her legs, Home and more, due to a condition called arthrogryposis, she still became an avid equestrian, downhill skier, competitive swimmer, fund-raiser and more. At the beginning of this book a flippant comment inspires another, future dream - that of going down in a four-man bobsleigh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312322</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAway|author=Wendy Kendall|title=Wind Driven: Barbara Kendall's StoryDave 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>