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[[Category:New Reviews|Sport]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Guy MartinHurst_Norfolk|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>}}{{newreview|author=A P McCoy|title=Winner: On My Racing Life|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=In any walk of life there are people who are universally known by their first names alone. In flat racing, everyone knows who 'Frankie' is and in National Hunt you need say no more than 'A.P.' Legend is an over-used word but not when it comes to the achievements of Tony 'A.P.' McCoy. He's been champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and his career record of 4,348 wins may never be beaten. In fact, it's tempting to say that it will ''never'' 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 jockey he's also been BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He achieved all this by the age of forty one when he retired from racing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409162397</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anna Krien|title=Night GamesWay: A Journey to the Dark Side of Sport|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=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 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 woman had automatic anonymity she's chosen to give the man who was charged the name of 'Justin' in an attempt to level the playing field, so to speak. You could Google the facts and come up with the correct name, but this isn't a book of gossip about particular people. It's an investigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNorfolk Coastal Walks|author=Jeff Scott|title=Born to RumbleJohn Hurst
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|genre=SportArt|summary=''Rumble''. It's an odd wordwas pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, isn't itannoyingly, left with that sense of a noise like thunder (or even of a motorcycle engine) ''and'' of a street fight between rival gangsan hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottage. Author Jeff Scott has picked the perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when There was an art exhibition in the combination of brakeless bikeschurch hall, adrenalin, ridiculous speeds so we went in - and not found a lot display of space explode into confrontation on or off the trackmost gorgeous pictures. ItI's hardly surprising d cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that it happens - in fact itI would have to make do with a couple of greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks''s surprising that it doesnand I couldn't happen more often given the competitive nature of the sport and the diva-like qualities of some of the top ridersresist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861849</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Red SzellIgnotofsky_Sport|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 Women 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>}}{{newreview|author=Jeff Scott and Rachael Adams|title=Strictly ShaleSport: Circling British Speedway|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=When I was young I remember Speedway being a regular item on Saturday sport programmes on television. My father was an aficionado and loved the noise, the risk and the sheer energy of the sport - my mother less so and she quoted the noise and the strong possibility of there being 'a nasty accident' when the riders slid their motorcycles sideways. It is still on television but I'll confess Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to not having watched for many years and it was for this reason that Jeff Scott's ''Strictly Shale'' achieved the unusual feat of both being an eye opener and bringing back long-forgotten memories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861830</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWin|author=Tom Palmer|title=Over The LineRachel Ignotofsky
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyChildren's Non-Fiction|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 ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us 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 Winter Olympics in South Korea in FranceFebruary 2018. ''Over It celebrates a century and a half of the Line'' is the story development of Jackwomen's warsport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, of joining the Footballers' Battalioncovering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, playing in the Flanders Cupskating, fighting and much more. Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in the trenches and not just surviving but being decorated for braverythis book somewhere. After the war he scored England's first international goal Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and was one of the first of the modern generation of 'professional footballers'a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Burrell_12|title=Slow Getting UpTwelve Times To The Max: One Man's Journey to, and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World Records|author=Nate JacksonStuart Burrell
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|summary=The fly leaf suggests that this Blufferfirst of Stuart Burrell's Guide is world records, well, the way first two, actually, as he's not a man to do things by halves, came about by accident. There had been a plan to instantly acquire all raise some money for the knowledge which you need to pass as an expert Children in the ''arcane Need Charity and labyrinthine'' world of golf. There's quite a bit there that I'd agree late on - the rules (and people who were to an unfortunate extent have been the ''attitudes'') are arcane main attraction got a better offer and they seem Burrell is not a man to take a lifetime let people down. What could be done to masterbring people in and raise some money? Most of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, but there's Burrell had made a surprising amount hobby of information tucked away inside this little book. What I might quibble with is whether or not you would ''pass as an expert'' (which suggests that you're something escapology and idea of a con man): there's enough detail here to give you a solid grounding without needing to bluffsponsored 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909365327</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin|authorisbn=Daniel James Brown|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=You see, Jesse Owens had it easy – all he had to do was run fast. Alright, he did have to face unknown hardship, heinous prejudice at home and abroad, and make sure he was fast enough to outdo the rest of his compatriots then the world's best to win gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but others who wished to do the same had to do more. People such as those rowers in the coxed eights squad – people such as young Joe Rantz. He certainly had to face hardship, the prejudice borne by those in the moneyed east coast yacht clubs against an upstart from the NW USA, and when he got to compete he had to use so many more muscles, and operate at varying tempi, with the temperament of the weather and water against him, all in perfect synchronicity with seven other beefcakes. Despite rowing being the second greatest ticket at those Games, Joe's story is a lot less well known, and probably a lot more entertaining.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447210980</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLandreth_Swell|title=Running Like A GirlSwell |author=Alexandra HeminsleyJenny Landreth
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|summary=Running 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 awful. So starts Heminsleymore than just (I say ''just''!) a recollection of the author's own encounters with water; it's also a history of women's book fight for the right to swim. That sounds absurd until you start reading about runningit, then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of the absurd. And sheNot 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 not wrong''giggles-on-the-commute funny''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558955</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Oakeshott_Derby|title=Who Invented The Stepover? (And Other Crucial Football Conundrums)A Guide to the Classics: Or How to Pick the Derby Winner|author=Paul Simpson Guy Griffith and Uli HesseMichael Oakeshott
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|summary=In 1982It's not often that you get a glimpse into the personal, youthful interests of one of the greatest Conservative philosophers of the twentieth century, second division Charlton Athletic staged an unlikely transfer coup but ''A Guide to the Classics'' co-authored by signing former European Footballer of Michael Oakeshott is a light-hearted look at how to pick the Year Allan SimonsenDerby winner. If Originally written in 1936 it is, amazingly, as relevant today as it was then. In fact, the thought of the Danish superstar forsaking techniques and analysis employed by the glamour authors were way ahead of Barcelona for south east London seemed unlikely then consider that Simonsen had previously faked his own death during a World Cup qualifiertheir time and have only come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250065</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry RedknappGibbons_Game|title=Harry: My AutobiographyThe Beautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons|rating=4.5
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|summary=Everybody with an interest 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 English football knows who ''Harry', it' s common knowledge that red isthe more successful colour to wear. But is that flame red? Blood red? The cover red of his book won't tell you who he is, but if you're not in the know Sun cover banner when it's Harry Redknapp - football manager falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and for many that it had been one of us, something of a national treasure. Hetheir own making? And while we's the manager who's seen it allre on about colour, having started at rock bottom - a 70s Portakabin at Oxford City - and risen to where were the heights people of managing Tottenham Hotspur colour in football in the Premiership. At the same time he was the popular choice for the England Managerolden days? There are so many darker sides to football's job when Capello threw in the towel. Ithistory it's fair to say that Harry has lived his football life enough to make a young lad question the full and anyone buying this book will get their money's worth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091917875</amazonuk>whole game…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim WhiteAskwith_Today|title=Premier LeagueToday We Die a Little: A History in 10 MatchesEmil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War Hero|author=Richard Askwith|rating=4.5
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|summary=As a runner myself, I go back to the days when the pinnacle often look for sources of footballing achievement was to be in Division 1inspiration. Training is rewarding, but the stadia and the stands were downmarketevery so often a day comes along when I question whether it is all worth it or not. Standing - pushingZatopek proves that is, shoving and fighting - was the norm and indeed, all worth it wasn't the place for a family outing. You could get He put copious amounts of effort into a match for less than a fiver his training, and top footballers earned less than four times the average wage. All that changed in 1993 with the birth number of races he won over his career as a professional athlete clearly shows the Premier League. This was the brainchild results 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 wageit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781854300</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Twirlymen: The Unlikley History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers|author=Amol Rajan|rating=3.5|genre=Sport|summary=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|authorisbn=John D BarrowPavey_Mum|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>}}{{newreviewMum Runs|author=Gavin Mortimer|title=A History of Cricket in 100 ObjectsJo Pavey
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|summary=[[A History I am something of Football in 100 Objects by Gavin Mortimer|A History a self-confessed running addict: I think nothing of hitting the roads for 50 miles a week, and spend much of Football in 100 Objects]] was my time searching for races to run all over the country. That is, until I wound up with a brave attemptpersistent sports injury, but was slightly let down by being hung up my running shoes for nearly a little too clinicalyear, and switched the road to the pool. Being a game imbued with passionAt the time I thought nothing could alleviate the misery of not being able to run; but now I wish I had had Jo Pavey's autobiography, ''This Mum Runs'', to keep me company because the book lacked this which took some elite athlete’s account of the edge off it. CricketOlympics, injury, family, whilst inspiring passion amongst devoteesand life, has a slightly more laid back following; one that may work better in this format. That saidgeneral, being a game that has been played for five centuries, narrowing it down to just 100 objects is no less an undertaking than for footballfalls nothing short of inspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689406</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen RocheLee_Lean|title=Born to Ride: The Autobiography of Stephen RocheLean Gains|author=Jonathan S Lee
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|summary=With all the revelations about the systemised doping culture surrounding Lance ArmstrongI don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't''s team but in the 1990s, this case I think it was interesting 's important. If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking to read shed a story few pounds then you won't get the best out of a time before cycling was embroiled in one drugs scandal after anotherthis book. Although perhaps not as memorable as ArmstrongYou's career, Stephen Rochell find some good advice about diet but I's will hold m afraid that much of it is going to go over your head. Of course you could always take up a place in cycling history for 1987, when he became only the second man to win sport seriously... On the Tour de Franceother hand, the Giro Dif you ''are''Italia and a serious sportsman then you could find that the World Championships advice in the same season. A quarter of a century after that remarkable feat, Roche has produced his autobiography, ''Born to RideLean Gains''could lift you up to the next level of performance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091905</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin MortimerLong_Mock|title=A History of Football in 100 ObjectsThe Mock Olympian|author=Michael Long
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|summary=Given how long itIt started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's been played and how many books have been written about it, any new history friend Sarah gave him a book as part of football needs his birthday present. It was Time Out's guide to have some kind the history of hook to make the Olympics and it stand outcovered each of the summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Gavin Mortimer may have found Sarah's boyfriend James commented thatwith all the running Michael did, by presenting his history as 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'A History d only competed in two of the twenty-three cities - London and Athens. Now most of Football in 100 Objectsus would have left it at that, but that's not the Michael Long you'. This prompts the question as re going to whether the whole of football could be reduced down come to a mere century of objectsknow and love. But then, if [[From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries by Chris Waring]] can make He saw it as a history of maths worth readingchallenge and what's more, I guess anything is possiblehe blogged about it and then wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250618</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin KelnerRoberts_Home|title=Sit Down Home and Cheer: A History of Sport on TVAway|author=Dave Roberts
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|summary=Like many English sports For most football fans, non-league clubs (that is, teams who play outside the majority top four divisions of English football) are like a distant relative fallen on hard times; you're vaguely aware of their existence but have no particular wish to visit them. Apart from a few weeks in early January, when the calories I burn are used up by shouting at odd non-league club reaches the third round of the TV FA cup and occasionally going to embarks on a spot of giant-killing, the shops for more beer and crispslower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of devoted supporters. Sports books tend So what's it like to be about the sport itself or biographies support a non-league team? Enter Dave Roberts, a fan of those Bromley FC who expended great effort to reach are currently plying their trade in the Vanarama National League – the top fifth tier of their chosen sportEnglish football. But in Martin KelnerIn 's 'Sit Down Home and Cheer: A History of Sport on TVAway'', there is finally a book for Dave documents the highs and lows of travelling the country watching Bromley during the less energetic among us2015/2016 season.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140812923X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare BaldingMcgrath_Darley|title=My Animals and Other FamilyMr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses|author=Christopher McGrath
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|summary=Nothing divides opinion quite like football and no-All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one expresses their joy and disappointment like football fans. For many fans, the most important matches of their entire season are the ones against their local rivalsjust three stallions which came to England about three hundred years ago; the derby matchesThe Byerley Turk, The Darley Arabian and The Godolphin Arabian. English football The last century or so has seen a number decline in the lines from the first and last of thesestallions, but only to the matches between Barcelona extent that some 95% of all thoroughbreds worldwide - not just in England - are descended from The Darley Arabian, which was originally bought in Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and Real Madrid shipped to Yorkshire in Spain have elevated themselves above mere derby status and earned their own name: ''El Clásico'' – the Classic1704, by Thomas Darley, who died, in difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408158795</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Secret FootballerMills_Top|title=I Am Top Of The Secret Footballer: Lifting The Lid On The Beautiful GameLeague|author=Andrea Mills|rating=43.5
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|summary=In Football is known as the 2012 Olympic Games the UK delighted in the skills shown by our athletesbeautiful game and when I was younger I kind of believed this. We were - naturally - pleased by the medals, but what impressed was the training I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home to try and dedication of people who were frequently fitting what they did around the day job or studycomplete my Panini sticker album. For There was even the most part they weren't reaping much in halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the way of financial rewards from what they did - but they shonetitle. The exceptions were the footballersAs I have grown older, my cynicism has grown too. I forget (and that might well Leicester may be Freudian) ''exactly'' who beat uschampions, but the day I doubt feel that there are many people pleased by a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the show they madeeveryman, will be a sad one. It's now Perhaps the beginning love of football still burns bright in the Premier League season and youth of today? ''I Am Top Of the Secret FootballerLeague'' has arrived at certainly hopes so as it is full of facts and figures all about the perfect momentball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852653085</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Tyers and BeachBradbury_Walks|title=I Kick Therefore I am: The Little Book of Premier League WisdomUnforgettable Walks|author=Julia Bradbury
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|summary=You remember Ronnie Matthews, donI't you? Heve long been a fan of Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in walking - so the footballer who celebrated his one – news that there would shortly be another series of programmes and so far, only – international match by booing his way through the Faroe Islands' national anthem, then getting a red card for chatting up book to accompany the lineswoman. He still thinks he contributed well series was music to a vital friendly, howevermy ears. HeThis time she's looking at Britain's best walks with a view and she roams through Dorset, the Cotswolds, Anglesey, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lakes, Cumbria, the player whose career in piddling his way through continuously lesser South Downs and lesser clubs for far too long has only been matched in the recent game by Steve ClaridgePeak District. And still heUnless you's bucking the trend – here in Scotland there's the only author smart enough something reasonably close to realise that four-hundred pagejust about everyone, ghost-written biogs are unnecessary, for he's crammed with a good spread around all his life, career, philosophy and response to Twitter into an hour's readpoints of the compass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832763</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo McKinstryMartin_When|title=Jack Hobbs: England's Greatest CricketerWhen You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin|rating=4.5
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|summary=Back in the early 1920sIt's a little depressing when a 34-year-old is publishing his second autobiography, there were only three Test cricket playing nations; Englandbut that's what this book is, Australia and South AfricaMartin proves he's certainly not short on material. In the summer The author, for those of 2012you who don't know, both nations have been on tour; Australia recently beaten comprehensively at one day cricket and South Africa about to start is a test series to determine the best Test nation mechanic who dabbles in the world. Given that history is repeating itselfTV presenting and motorcycle racing, though it seems appropriate that a new biography of Jack Hobbs, England's greatest run scorer and the latter for which he will be most well-known. As an F1 widow to a man boy who repeatedly blunted the bowling attacks of both nationslikes all things fast, I thought he might like this book and so, perhaps unusually, should become available nowI chose it with someone else in mind but made myself read it first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083309</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beth RaymerMccoy_Winner|title=Lay the FavouriteWinner: A True Story about Playing to Win in the Gambling Underworld|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It was a dream which brought Beth Raymer to Las Vegas, but the reality was that she ended up waiting tables in a low-end diner and living in a distinctly unsavoury motel. A chance meeting brought her into contact with Dink, the self-styled king of the city's sports betting and she moved into what was very much a man's world - of high-stakes gambling and a lot of people you wouldn't necessarily want your daughter to know. This is the story of how Beth learned the trade and moved into the world of the big money where gambling regulations don't apply. Being sharp was what it was all about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555395</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMy Racing Life|author=Paul Watson|title=Up Pohnpei: A quest to reclaim the soul of football by leading the world's ultimate underdogs to gloryP McCoy
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|summary=IIn any walk of life, there are people who are universally known by their first names alone. In flat racing, everyone knows who 'm a huge fan of both football Frankie' is and readingin National Hunt, so a book about football you need to say no more than 'A.P.' Legend is always likely to appeal an over-used word but not when it comes to me as the best way achievements of combining the two. Recently, ITony 've read books set at the pinnacle of the game in [[Life with Sir Alex: A Fan.P.'s Story of FergusonMcCoy. He's 25 Years at Manchester United by Will Tidey]] been champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and about one manhis career record of 4,348 wins may never be beaten. In fact, it's struggle to bring football tempting to a foreign land in [[Bamboo Goalposts by Rowan Simons]]. say that it will ''Upnever'' be beaten. He''Pohnpei'' is firmly in s won the Grand National, the Irish Grand National, two Cheltenham Gold Cups and won the latter categoryChampion Hurdle three times. Unusually for a jockey, treading very similar ground to Simonshe' books also been BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He achieved all this by the age of forty one when he retired from racing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668501X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will TideyKrien_Night|title=Life with Sir AlexNight Games: A Fan's Story Journey to the Dark Side of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester UnitedSport|author=Anna Krien|rating=4.5
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|summary=In 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 25 years twenties and follows the case as manager of Manchester United Football Clubit goes to court, Sir Alex Ferguson has won everything, most interviewing some of them more than oncethose directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. HeIn deference to the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity, she's taken his team chosen to give the man who was charged the top name of English football with some lavish purchases'Justin Dyer' in an attempt to level the playing field, some expert man management and a ruthless dedication so to his club speak. You could Google the facts and his players. Depending which side of come up with the fence you sit oncorrect name, but this has made him either the most popular, or most hated, man in English football. Iisn'm in the latter groupt a book of gossip about particular people. IIt'm s an investigation of a Liverpool fanculture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408149516</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark KreidlerScott_Born|title=The Voodoo Wave - Inside a Season of Triumph and Tumult at Maverick'sBorn to Rumble|author=Jeff Scott
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|summary=Maverick''Rumble''. It's is one of the biggestan odd word, nastiest, jaw droppingly huge waves in the Pacific Ocean and as such has become something of a Mecca for the worldisn's top surfers. Situated off the coast of Northern California its freezing cold conditions make t it a far cry from the sun drenched breaks in Hawaii, Mexico and South Africa with the number that sense of surfers adequately qualified a noise like thunder (and fearless enoughor even of a motorcycle engine) to take on the cliff like drops probably numbering less than 100.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393065359</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Ridley|title=There's A Golden Sky: How 20 years of the Premier League has changed football forever|rating=5|genre=Sport|summary=Twenty years ago the Premier League was founded, changing English football irreversibly. Also 20 years ago, journalist Ian Ridley wrote the classic 'and'Season In The Cold'', of a snapshot of street fight between rival gangs. Author Jeff Scott has picked the game perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the time. Since then, clubs have risen and fallencombination of brakeless bikes, players have become legendsadrenalin, ridiculous speeds and Ridley himself has become chairman not a lot of not one but two non-league clubs – first Weymouth, from 2003space explode into a confrontation on or off the track. It's hardly surprising that it happens -2004 (and again briefly in 2009) and more recently St Albans City. In this stunning follow-up to Season In The Coldfact, Ridley explore the effect it's surprising that it doesn't happen more often given the changes in competitive nature of the sport have had at all levelsand the diva-like qualities of some of the top riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408130408</amazonuk>
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