...Day'', written in the warm, friendly tones of Des Lynam. For the average sports fan, memories and information sit side by side like Hansen and Shearer.
...g at the TV and occasionally going to the shops for more beer and crisps. Sports books tend to be about the sport itself or biographies of those who expende
4 KB (750 words) - 12:36, 11 April 2018
...sic, art and culture, literature, personal development, meditation, dance, sports, travelling, family adventures with her four children and watching great fi
...e, before taking a leading role in a company specialising in Formula 1 and sports travel.
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|title=A Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry's Sports
|sort=Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry's Sports
3 KB (472 words) - 14:28, 19 March 2018
...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 balan
...ated on the league’s own website. I don’t know enough of some of the other sports involved to be able to know if there are any other mistakes but the presenc
3 KB (548 words) - 12:39, 15 April 2018
|summary=A treasure of a book to read and reread from a sports commentator who really does have something to say. Highly recommended.
...d be very few who would disagree that she has been a resounding success in sports commentary and elsewhere - as she most recently demonstrated in the 2012 Ol
3 KB (583 words) - 15:18, 25 August 2020
...f the tennis equivalent, but he was there for me too). To run with a good sports tale you need some unpredictability, a character to care for, and knowledge
...ut with the deal. Realism is not a strong point, but Freedman's career in sports writing and following football is evident throughout.
3 KB (612 words) - 15:47, 22 April 2018
...och - and the sport itself occasionally becoming corrupt. One of the last sports where you'll find the genuine sense of community, of being ''for'' and ''by
...it would be a pity if something so ''genuine'' went the way of mainstream sports. He's not an action photographer, but he has an eye for the telling image:
3 KB (553 words) - 10:33, 30 January 2024
...how the rules have adapted over the years and how the kit has changed some sports beyond all recognition.
...empts to make the book appeal to the maximum number of people is that many sports don't get much page space, with the virtual ignoring of my own particular s
6 KB (1,060 words) - 10:19, 16 April 2018
|summary=Beautiful book celebrating women's sports and female athletes. Lovely, detailed illustrations and brief but inspirati
...nt of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Think of a
3 KB (514 words) - 12:02, 19 August 2020
...manages to entice the entire Brown family and Mrs Bird, to come to a local sports day. There’s everything from the shotput to a three-legged race and even
...wadays who follow the 'let’s give everyone a medal for joining in' idea at sports day, and much prefer the old days of there clearly being winners and losers
4 KB (636 words) - 11:22, 18 September 2020
|title=Monstrous Maud: Spooky Sports Day
Quite how do you make a sports day spooky? Well, in this topsy-turvy world, you don't have to do much. I
4 KB (634 words) - 10:21, 14 September 2020
|summary=There are a few sports people who become the very best in their field, but what about the rest of
Sporting autobiographies are often written by those sports men and women who made it to the very pinnacle of their profession. Their
4 KB (745 words) - 20:29, 11 August 2020
|summary= A bit too heavy on the sports statistics for my liking, yet it was still an interesting, enjoyable read.
.... They nurtured him, and helped him, fought for him and encouraged him in sports, yet it turned out that his real gift lay not on the basketball court, but
5 KB (839 words) - 14:57, 8 April 2018
|summary=A good rugby story for sports fans and non fans alike.
...grace and maturity - the only thing that remains to be seen is whether his sports-mad father will be able to do the same. This is an excellent book for child
5 KB (830 words) - 19:58, 29 August 2020
...this series, [[Monstrous Maud: Spooky Sports Day by A B Saddlewick|Spooky Sports Day]]. For me there, the balance between the surreal monster world and the
3 KB (458 words) - 10:14, 23 April 2018
...ttle twist, and cranks up the fun. It's all presented in the style of a TV sports broadcast, with commentators, stats, training highlights and interviews. Th
The vocabulary is as thrilling and dramatic as you'd expect from the best sports commentary, yet still perfectly pitched at its young audience who might nev
3 KB (446 words) - 11:24, 6 March 2018
|summary=An educational and entertaining sports biography that completely successfully opens out to be a history story of W
...aken the wrong way, but I’ll repeat it anyway. It read like a biography a sports book fan would enjoy, much more than a standard life history. But Catrine
5 KB (945 words) - 15:01, 9 April 2018
Ridley was the Sports Journalist of the Year in 2007 in the British Press Awards, and reading any
...aney. This is a stunning read which will surely go down as one of the best sports books of the past 10 years, and deserves to be read by all football fans. E
3 KB (515 words) - 13:29, 28 February 2018
...ons played out time and time again when I was younger and involved in team sports myself. Yes, all children do want to win, but it is the adults who take it
...ld also recommend it for any parent whose child is involved in competitive sports. It's all too easy to cheer when our children are winning - but they need u
5 KB (890 words) - 10:14, 9 March 2018
Cricket has an international reach which can be rivaled by few other team sports, and this book looks at the history of the game going from England around t
Further reading suggestion: Sports fans who've enjoyed the book but are looking for rather lighter reading wou
3 KB (566 words) - 10:03, 16 April 2018