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[[Category:New Reviews|Sport]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea MillsHurst_Norfolk|title=Top Of The League |rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Football is known as the beautiful game and when I was younger I kind of believed this. I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home to try and complete my Panini sticker album. There was even the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. As I have grown older, my cynicism has grown too. Leicester may be champions, but the day I feel that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the everyman, will be a sad one. Perhaps the love of football still burns bright in the youth of today? ''Top Of the League'' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts and figures all about the ball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=Julia Bradbury|title=Unforgettable WalksJohn Hurst

|genre=TravelArt|summary=I've long been It was pure serendipity: after a fan of Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television five- I credit her hour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with sparking my own interest an hour to fill in walking - so Blakeney before we could have the news that there would shortly be another series of programmes ''and'' a book keys to accompany the series our holiday cottage. There was music to my ears. This time she's looking at Britain's best walks with a view and she roams through Dorset, an art exhibition in the Cotswoldschurch hall, Anglesey, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lakes, Cumbria, the South Downs so we went in - and found a display of the Peak Districtmost gorgeous pictures. Unless youI're in Scotland there's something reasonably close d cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to just about everyone, make do with a good spread around all points couple of the compass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784298840</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Guy Martin|title= When You Dead, You Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Itgreetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'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 donI couldn't know, is a mechanic who dabbles in TV presenting and motorcycle racing, though resist buying it's the latter for which we he will be most well-known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753556669</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A P McCoy|title=Winner: 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|authorisbn=Anna KrienIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Night Games: 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' Women 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>}}{{newreview|author=Jeff Scott|title=Born to Rumble|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=''Rumble''. It's an odd word, isn't it, with that sense of a noise like thunder (or even of a motorcycle engine) ''and'' of a street fight between rival gangs. Author Jeff Scott has picked the perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the combination of brakeless bikes, adrenalin, ridiculous speeds and not a lot of space explode into confrontation on or off the track. It's hardly surprising that it happens - in fact it's surprising that it doesn't happen more often given the competitive nature of the sport and the diva-like qualities of some of the top riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861849</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Red Szell|title=The Blind Man of Hoy: A True Story|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Redmond Széll was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) at age 19. It's now 26 years since he got the life-changing news. Although not completely sightless – he sees shadows and shapes – he is registered blind and walks with the stereotypical white stick. This hasn't stopped him from pursuing his hobby of rock-climbing, though, both indoors on climbing walls and on Britain's cliffs. The culmination of his climbing obsession came in 2013, when he became the first blind person to climb the Old Man of Hoy, the 449-foot cliff off the Orkney Islands of Scotland.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124222</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeff Scott and Rachael Adams|title=Strictly Shale: 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

|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>

{{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

|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 to take a lifetime to master, but there's a surprising amount of information tucked away inside this little book. What I might quibble with Burrell is whether or not you would ''pass as an expert'' (which suggests that you're something of a con man): there's enough detail here to give you a solid grounding without needing to blufflet people down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909365327</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey What could be done to the Heart bring people in and raise some money? Most of Hitler's Berlin|author=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 us would have to face unknown hardship, heinous prejudice at home thought of jumble sales and abroadcake bakes, but Burrell had made a hobby of escapology and make sure he was fast enough to outdo the rest idea of his compatriots then the world's best to win gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but others who wished to do the same a sponsored escape had to do more. People such as those rowers in the coxed eights squad – people such as young Joe Rantzlife breathed into it. He certainly had to face hardship, the prejudice borne by those in the moneyed east coast yacht clubs against an upstart from the NW USAOn 3 November 2002, and when he got to compete he had to use so many more muscles, and operate at varying tempi, with went for the temperament of the weather Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and water against him, all immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in perfect synchronicity with seven other beefcakesOne Hour. Despite rowing being the second greatest ticket at those Games, Joe's story is a lot less well known, Both were successful and probably a lot more entertainingthan £300 was raised for Children in Need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447210980</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Landreth_Swell|title=Running Like A GirlSwell |author=Alexandra HeminsleyJenny Landreth

|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>

{{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

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry RedknappGibbons_Game|title=Harry: My AutobiographyThe Beautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons|rating=4.5

|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…

{{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

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Pavey_Mum|title=Twirlymen: The Unlikley History of Cricket's Greatest Spin BowlersThis Mum Runs|author=Amol RajanJo Pavey|rating=3.54

|summary=Although they may lack the bang and bluster I am something of a self-confessed running addict: I think nothing of hitting the fast bowlersroads for 50 miles a week, the three leading wicket takers and spend much of all my time in Test cricket are searching for races to run all spinnersover the country. They may look calmer in their run ups That is, until I wound up with a persistent sports injury, hung up my running shoes for nearly a year, and action, but switched the effect they put on road to the ball can be incrediblepool. Rather than blasting a batsman out, they bamboozle them. ThatAt 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 why Amol Rajan thinks them deserving of a book all of their ownautobiography, and ''TwirlymenThis Mum Runs'' is , to keep me company because the elite athlete’s account of the result Olympics, injury, family, and life, in general, falls nothing short of that beliefinspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083252</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John D BarrowLee_Lean|title=MathleticsLean Gains|author=Jonathan S Lee|rating=3.54

|summary=As a sports fan and a maths teacher, I was thrilled to get the chance to read don't often begin a book which claims to give us by telling you what it ''isn't''surprising and enlightening insights into the world of sportsbut in this case I think it's important. This is rather If you're a fairly sedentary person or a frustrating read because it seems casual sportsman or woman looking to have got shed a few pounds then you won't get the balance wrong in many casesbest out of this book. There are You'll find 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 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 monkey, we’re better all-rounders than any other animalsport seriously.. This is true, but hardly seems worth wasting a page on, it’s so obvious. Then there are On the other chaptershand, like the interesting one detailing the points scoring system in the decathlon, which if you ''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 serious sportsman then you could surely have been excellent if it had gone into more detail. I can’t help thinking find that dropping half of the sections and doubling the other half advice in length might have been ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the way to go herenext level of performance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584239</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin MortimerLong_Mock|title=A History of Cricket in 100 ObjectsThe Mock Olympian|author=Michael Long

|summary=[[A History It started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him a book as part of Football his birthday present. It was Time Out's guide to the history of the Olympics and it covered each of the summer Olympics in 100 Objects by Gavin Mortimer|A History of Football chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 100 Objects]] was a brave attempt1896. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael did, but was slightly let down by being a little too clinicalhe'd probably have run in most of the Olympic cities. Being Although Long had done a game imbued with passiongoodly number of runs, bike rides and triathlons he'd only competed in two of the book lacked this which took some twenty-three cities - London and Athens. Now most of the edge off us would have left it. Cricketat that, whilst inspiring passion amongst devotees, has a slightly more laid back following; one but that may work better in this format's not the Michael Long you're going to come to know and love. That said, being He saw it as a game that has been played for five centurieschallenge and what's more, narrowing he blogged about it down to just 100 objects is no less an undertaking than for footballand then wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689406</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen RocheRoberts_Home|title=Born to Ride: The Autobiography of Stephen RocheHome and Away|author=Dave Roberts

|summary=With all For most football fans, non-league clubs (that is, teams who play outside the revelations about the systemised doping culture surrounding Lance Armstrongtop four divisions of English football) are like a distant relative fallen on hard times; you's team re vaguely aware of their existence but have no particular wish to visit them. Apart from a few weeks in early January, when the odd non-league club reaches the third round of the 1990sFA cup and embarks on a spot of giant-killing, it was interesting to read a story the lower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of a time before cycling was embroiled in one drugs scandal after anotherdevoted supporters. Although perhaps not as memorable as ArmstrongSo what's careerit like to support a non-league team? Enter Dave Roberts, Stephen Roche's will hold a place fan of Bromley FC who are currently plying their trade in cycling history for 1987, when he became only the second man to win Vanarama National League – the Tour de Francefifth tier of English football. In ''Home and Away'', Dave documents the Giro D'Italia highs and lows of travelling the World Championships in country watching Bromley during the same 2015/2016 season. A quarter of a century after that remarkable feat, Roche has produced his autobiography, ''Born to Ride''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091905</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin MortimerMcgrath_Darley|title=Mr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Football Racing in 100 Objects25 Horses|author=Christopher McGrath|rating=45

|summary=Given how long it's been played and how many books have been written All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of just three stallions which came to England about itthree hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, any new history of football needs to have some kind of hook to make it stand outThe Darley Arabian and The Godolphin Arabian. Gavin Mortimer may have found that, by presenting his history as ''A History of Football The last century or so has seen a decline in 100 Objects''. This prompts the question as to whether lines from the whole first and last of football could be reduced down these stallions, to a mere century the extent that some 95% of objects. But thenall thoroughbreds worldwide - not just in England - are descended from The Darley Arabian, if [[From 0 which was originally bought in Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and shipped to Infinity Yorkshire in 26 Centuries 1704, by Chris Waring]] can make a history of maths worth readingThomas Darley, who died, I guess anything is possiblein difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin KelnerMills_Top|title=Sit Down and Cheer: A History of Sport on TVTop Of The League|author=Andrea Mills|rating=43.5

|summary=Like many English sports fans, Football is known as the majority beautiful game and when I was younger I kind of the calories believed this. I burn are used up by shouting at the TV would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and occasionally going then go home to try and complete my Panini sticker album. There was even the shops for more beer and crispshalcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. As I have grown older, my cynicism has grown too. Sports books tend to Leicester may be about champions, but the sport itself or biographies day I feel that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of those who expended great effort to reach slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the top of their chosen sporteveryman, will be a sad one. But Perhaps the love of football still burns bright in Martin Kelnerthe youth of today? ''s Top Of the League'Sit Down and Cheer: A History of Sport on TV', there certainly hopes so as it is finally a book for full of facts and figures all about the less energetic among usball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140812923X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare BaldingBradbury_Walks|title=My Animals and Other Family|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Clare Balding was born into a racing family - her father, Ian, was the trainer of Mill Reef who won the Derby in 1971, the same year that Clare was born. Whilst her father would never forget the year that his horse won the Derby he would usually fail to remember that it was also the year of his daughter's birth. Horses came first and they were the priority in Ian Balding's life: the family had to adjust accordingly. He was a gifted and successful trainer who understood the animals in his care and his record, including Mill Reef's Derby success speaks for itself. Clare's childhood was separate from the life of the racing stable but she inherited her family's love of animals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921467</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewUnforgettable Walks|author=Richard Fitzpatrick|title=El Clasico - Barcelona v Real Madrid: Football's Greatest RivalryJulia Bradbury|rating=4.5

|summary=Nothing divides opinion quite like football and noI've long been a fan of Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in walking -one expresses their joy so the news that there would shortly be another series of programmes and disappointment like football fansa book to accompany the series was music to my ears. For many fansThis time she's looking at Britain's best walks with a view and she roams through Dorset, the most important matches of their entire season are Cotswolds, Anglesey, the ones against their local rivals; Yorkshire Dales, the derby matches. English football has a number of theseLakes, Cumbria, but only the matches between Barcelona South Downs and Real Madrid the Peak District. Unless you're in Spain have elevated themselves above mere derby status and earned their own name: Scotland there''El Clásico'' – s something reasonably close to just about everyone, with a good spread around all points of the Classiccompass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408158795</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Secret FootballerMartin_When|title=I Am The Secret Footballer: Lifting The Lid On The Beautiful GameWhen You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin

|summary=In the 2012 Olympic Games the UK delighted in the skills shown by our athletes. We were It's a little depressing when a 34- naturally year- pleased by the medalsold is publishing his second autobiography, but that's what impressed was the training this book is, and dedication Martin proves he's certainly not short on material. The author, for those of people you who were frequently fitting what they did around the day job or study. For the most part they werendon't reaping much know, is a mechanic who dabbles in TV presenting and motorcycle racing, though it's the way of financial rewards from what they did latter for which he will be most well- but they shoneknown. The exceptions were the footballers. As an F1 widow to a boy who likes all things fast, I forget (thought he might like this book and that might well be Freudian) ''exactly'' who beat usso, perhaps unusually, I chose it with someone else in mind but I doubt that there are many people pleased by the show they mademyself read it first. It's now the beginning of the Premier League season and ''I Am the Secret Footballer'' has arrived at the perfect moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852653085</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Tyers and BeachMccoy_Winner|title=I Kick Therefore I amWinner: The Little Book of Premier League WisdomMy Racing Life|author=A P McCoy

|summary=You remember Ronnie MatthewsIn any walk of life, donthere are people who are universally known by their first names alone. In flat racing, everyone knows who 'Frankie't is and 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 achievements of Tony 'A.P.' McCoy. He's the footballer who celebrated his one – been champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and so far, only – international match by booing his way through the Faroe Islands' national anthemcareer record of 4, then getting a red card for chatting up the lineswoman348 wins may never be beaten. He still thinks he contributed well In fact, it's tempting to a vital friendly, howeversay that it will ''never'' be beaten. He's won the player whose career in piddling his way through continuously lesser Grand National, the Irish Grand National, two Cheltenham Gold Cups and lesser clubs for far too long has only been matched in won the recent game by Steve ClaridgeChampion Hurdle three times. And still Unusually for a jockey, he's bucking also been BBC Sports Personality of the trend – he's Year. He achieved all this by the only author smart enough to realise that four-hundred page, ghost-written biogs are unnecessary, for age of forty one when he's crammed all his life, career, philosophy and response to Twitter into an hour's readretired from racing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832763</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo McKinstryKrien_Night|title=Jack HobbsNight Games: England's Greatest Cricketer|rating=5|genre=Sport|summary=Back in the early 1920s, there were only three Test cricket playing nations; England, Australia and South Africa. In the summer of 2012, both nations have been on tour; Australia recently beaten comprehensively at one day cricket and South Africa about to start a test series A Journey to determine the best Test nation in the world. Given that history is repeating itself, it seems appropriate that a new biography Dark Side of Jack Hobbs, England's greatest run scorer and a man who repeatedly blunted the bowling attacks of both nations, should become available now.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083309</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSport|author=Beth Raymer|title=Lay the Favourite: A True Story about Playing to Win in the Gambling UnderworldAnna Krien

|summary=I'm Mere mortals relax by having a huge fan game of both football footy of a weekend and readinga couple of drinks, so 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 book about football is always likely rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer, just into his twenties and follows the case as it goes to appeal court, interviewing some of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. In deference to me as the best way of combining fact that the two. Recentlywoman had automatic anonymity, Ishe've read books set at s chosen to give the pinnacle of man who was charged the game in [[Life with Sir Alex: A Fan's Story name of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester United by Will Tidey]] and about one manJustin Dyer's struggle in an attempt to bring football level the playing field, so to a foreign land in [[Bamboo Goalposts by Rowan Simons]]speak. ''Up'' ''Pohnpei'' is firmly in You could Google the facts and come up with the latter categorycorrect name, treading very similar ground to Simonsbut this isn' t a bookof gossip about particular people. It's an investigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668501X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will TideyScott_Born|title=Life with Sir Alex: A Fan's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester UnitedBorn to Rumble|author=Jeff Scott

|summary=In his 25 years as manager of Manchester United Football Club''Rumble''. It's an odd word, Sir Alex Ferguson has won everythingisn't it, most with that sense of a noise like thunder (or even of a motorcycle engine) ''and'' of them more than oncea street fight between rival gangs. He's taken Author Jeff Scott has picked the perfect title for his team to journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the top combination of English football with some lavish purchasesbrakeless bikes, adrenalin, some expert man management ridiculous speeds and not a ruthless dedication to his club and his players. Depending which side lot of the fence you sit space explode into a confrontation on, this has made him either or off the most popular, or most hated, man in English footballtrack. IIt'm s hardly surprising that it happens - in fact, it's surprising that it doesn't happen more often given the competitive nature of the sport and the diva-like qualities of some of the latter group. I'm a Liverpool fantop riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408149516</amazonuk>