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[[Category:New Reviews|Sport]] ==Sport==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Bateman and Jeff Hill (Editors)Hurst_Norfolk|title=The Cambridge Companion to Cricket|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=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 the world to the other major Test-playing nations. While it's packed full of initially rather dauntingly dense prose, none of the 17 chapters are particularly long – most weighing in at a little under 20 pages – and the writing styles of all of the various authors are very accessible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521167876</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=Victoria Coren|title=For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions of a PlayerJohn Hurst|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyArt|summary=Some things are in the blood. For Victoria Coren it It was cards. As pure serendipity: after a child she and brother Giles five-hour drive, we were taught , annoyingly, left with an hour to play Blackjack by their grandfatherfill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottage. He called it Pontoon but the most valuable lesson There was that grandfather was ''always'' an art exhibition in the dealer church hall, so we went in - and ''always'' found a display of the winnermost gorgeous pictures. Giles played Poker but wasnI't really a gambler. Victoria was d cheerfully have bought every one of life's risk-takers and she leant hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to the more adventurous side make do with a couple of her fathergreetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks's family. She was unhappy at school, preferring the company of her brother's straight-talking friends to the bitchy all-girl atmosphere at school. In the intervening twenty years sheand I couldn's won a million dollars, but for her t resist buying it's never been about the money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847672930</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Fordyce and Ben DirsIgnotofsky_Sport|title=We Could be HeroesWomen in Sport: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World ChampionshipsFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
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|genre=SportChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Meet Ben Dirs. Apart from having one of the most unfortunate names on record, he’s a fairly laid-back guy whose daily breakfast consists of two cigarettes. Compared to Dirs, his BBC colleague Tom Fordyce – a keen amateur triathlete – looks like Daley Thompson ''Women in his prime. But Tom’s ambition of winning a worldchampionship Sport'' is still completely unachievable, surely? You don’t go from BBC blogger coming to 100m champion, football World Cup winner, or even us just before the number 1 snooker player on Earth, after allWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. On It celebrates a century and a half of the other handdevelopment of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, there are some more obscure Championships out there… could these two unlikely heroes make their dreams come true, and be recognised covering sports as diverse as the best shin kickers in the world? Not if Rory McGrath has anything to do with it! In addition to the Cotswold Olympicks and their shin-kickingswimming, Dirs and Fordyce try snail racingfencing, wife carryingriding, nettle eatingskating, and many much more weird . Think of a sport and wonderful eventsa pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. The only thing they have in common Each entry is the humour which the pair see in all of thema double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230736157</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jakob LovstadBurrell_12|title=Going MentalTwelve Times To The Max: Reaching Your Goals in Business One Man's Journey to, and Sports - Full Contact NLP Coaching from a Full Contact FighterRecollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World Records|author=Stuart Burrell
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|summary=Some books seem determined to put you off. Unless itThe first of Stuart Burrell's literary fiction world records, well, the first two, actually, as he'Going Mental' suggests something that I've gone s not a man to great lengths to avoid. The man on the cover is balddo things by halves, bloodied and apparently screamingcame about by accident. I've There had been avoiding men like that too. '…not a plan to raise some money for the soft Children in Need Charity and sensitive!' it says quite late on the people who were to have been the main attraction got a better offer and whilst I wouldn't describe myself as either I do wonder whether allowing Jakob Lovstad to mess with my head Burrell is the wisest thing I've ever done. When I realise that he's not a cage fighter I'm ready man to runlet people down. What has that got could be done to do with my businessbring people in and raise some money? Because that's what this book is about – reaching your goals Most of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, but Burrell had made a hobby of escapology and idea of a sponsored 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 business One Hour. Both were successful and sportsmore than £300 was raised for Children in Need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685588</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Stephen SimpsonLandreth_Swell|title=Play Magic Golf - How to use self-hypnosis, meditation, Zen, universal laws, quantum energy, and the latest psychological and NLP techniques to be a better golfer Swell |author=Jenny Landreth
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|summary=Do you find that when you're at the driving range or on the practice ground youI love Jenny're full s own description of promise but once you translate this to the course all her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that promise drains away, leaving you stuck with the high handicappers? we should each write our own. Do you know that youThis is more than just (I say 're better than this, but somehow you never seem to realise your potential? Yes? Then you 'just''need!) a recollection of the author's own encounters with water; it's also a history of women' this book – and s fight for the probability is that right to swim. That sounds absurd until you don't just need start reading about it on the golf course, but in 'real' life then it becomes serious. Not tooserious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of the absurd. Maybe you're Not a more proficient golfer than that? You 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'quite s '' well giggles-on -the course? Then this book will show you how you can improve even more-commute funny''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685014</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul MathieuOakeshott_Derby|title=The Masters of Manton: From Alec Taylor A Guide to George Todd|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary='Manton' is one of those iconic names in horse racingthe Classics: the yard on the edge of the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire and currently the home of trainer Brian Meehan. But Paul Mathieu isn't looking at what's happening today, or even in the recent past; he's looking back at the men who made Manton a household name from when the yard was built in 1870 through to George Todd's death in 1974. The first master was Alec Taylor – generally known as 'Old Alec Taylor', who came to Manton from Fyfield with a string of classic winners Or How to his name. He, his son, 'Young Alec', Joe Lawson and George Todd were Pick the great names in just over a century at the yard.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955389402</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDerby Winner|author=Royal Guy Griffith and Ancient|title=Decisions on the Rules of Golf 2010 - 2011Michael Oakeshott|rating=4.5
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|summary=The rules It's not often that you get a glimpse into the personal, youthful interests of golf are complexone of the greatest Conservative philosophers of the twentieth century, but designed so that they give no unfair advantages or disadvantages ''A Guide to any players across the full range of abilities. Followed faithfully and honestly they should ensure Classics'' co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is a fair and comfortable game for all. But times have changed and there are always situations which are not explicitly covered by light-hearted look at how to pick the rulesDerby winner. The Royal and Ancient receives over three thousand Originally written requests for clarification each year – in 1936 it is, amazingly, as relevant today as it was then. In fact, the techniques and these are not frivolous requests since they will only be considered if they are submitted analysis employed by a representative of the committee in charge authors were way ahead of the particular competition. 'Decisions on the Rules of Golf' is the accumulated wisdom on situations which might be considered ambiguoustheir time and have only come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>060062045X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael HutchinsonGibbons_Game|title=Missing the Boat: Chasing a Childhood Sailing DreamThe Beautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons
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|summary=As a youngster Football is all about its colours. And even if I write in the nineteen eighties, Michael Hutchinson was passionate about sailing. He acquired a dinghy and crew, and spent his early years messing around on Belfast Lough. He learned to sail, race Mirrors and fling jellyfish accurately at passing competitors. In time, his salty daydreams became ambitious, encompassing season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the Olympic Gamesthrone of English football, Americait's Cup and Round common knowledge that red is the World yacht racesmore successful colour to wear. Trouble was, Hutchinson proved to be a deeply mediocre dinghy sailor, clocking But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up only one win in several seasons round the buoys. Although he was good enough at race tactics a tragedy – and seamanshipthat it had been one of their own making? And while we're on about colour, he lacked where were the sprinkling people of gold dust that differentiates colour in football in the very good performer from the brilliant. And olden days? There are so eventually, as is the way of sensible many darker sides to football's history it's enough to make a young men, he became disenchanted and stopped trying. Ironically, he then found he had a talent for cycling which took him as far as lad question the Commonwealth Games.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552345</amazonuk>whole game…
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LaneAskwith_Today|title=England 'Til I Today We Die - A celebration of England's amazing supportersa Little: Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War Hero|author=Richard Askwith|rating=3.54
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|summary=To start withAs a runner myself, an admission. I am an English fan often look for sources of footballinspiration. Training is rewarding, but every so often a day comes along when I am question whether it is all worth it or not a fan of England’s football squad. Hardly ever would I prefer to see the Three Lions triumphantZatopek proves that is, indeed, all worth it. I never got He put copious amounts of effort into the habithis training, partly because I never saw and the singularly English habit number of supporting the underdog races he won over his career as making any sense. Plus you'll never get me standing up and singing that awful tune before a professional athlete clearly shows the match. But here are testimonies from twenty or so people who see things completely differently to meresults of it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906796505</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FeinsteinPavey_Mum|title=Moment of Glory: The Year Tiger Lost His Swing and Underdogs Ruled the MajorsThis Mum Runs|author=Jo Pavey
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|summary=Despite the picture I am something of a self-confessed running addict: I think nothing of Tiger Woods on hitting the dust jacket this book is only incidentally about him. Between 2000 roads for 50 miles a week, and 2002 Woods had dominated top-class golf, winning six spend much of my time searching for races to run all over the twelve majorscountry. But he's always after improvement That is, until I wound up with a persistent sports injury, hung up my running shoes for nearly a year, and he sacked his swing coach and turned switched the road to someone newthe pool. The swing is At the time I thought nothing could alleviate the engine misery of a golfernot being able to run; but now I wish I had had Jo Pavey's game and tinkering with a good swing has major implications. For Woods it meant that he floundered out autobiography, ''This Mum Runs'', to keep me company because the elite athlete’s account of the big money Olympics, injury, family, and life, in 2003. For everyone else it meant that there were chances to be taken. You might have expected that it would be the established stars who took advantagegeneral, but it wasn't to befalls nothing short of inspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442455</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catrine ClayLee_Lean|title=Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary='You have to learn to be hard men, to accept sacrifice without ever succumbing'. Such did Hitler say at the Nuremberg Nazi Party rallies in the 1930s. He probably did not have in mind playing in goal at a FA Cup final with a broken neck, such is the lifetime of difference between the two references. But that lifetime, as packed and varied as it was, is in the pages of this ever-interesting and swiftly-devoured book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224082884</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLean Gains|author=Paul R Spiring (Editor)|title=Rugby Football during the Nineteenth Century: A Collection of Contemporary Essays about the Game by Bertram Fletcher RobinsonJonathan S Lee|rating=3.54
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|summary=The mid-nineteenth century represented the sporting equivalent of the I don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't'big bang' but in terms of winter sports in England, giving rise to the development of what today we call rugby union, football and rugby league, all from the same originthis case I think it's important. Perhaps due If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking to its popularity amongst shed a few pounds then you won't get the public schools best out of the day, rugby union for many years claimed the moral high ground, advocating amateurism and an emphasis on playing the game rather than providing a public spectaclethis book. Indeed, the arguments over the dangers You'll find some good advice about diet but I'm afraid that much of professionalism, which initially led it is going to the split into rugby league from the Northern clubs, continued in union for well go over your head. Of course you could always take up a hundred years right up to sport seriously... On the former England captain Will Carlingother hand, if you 's description of the powers that be of the RFU as 'old fartsare''. In 1896 Bertrand Fletcher Robinson, together with contributions from a few leading players of the day, wrote Rugby Football which was serious sportsman then you could find that the first volume advice in a successful nine-part series on Sports and Pastimes that was written for ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the Isthmian Library. This edition is effectively a facsimile next level of that book, with the addition of an introduction, penned by Patrick Casey and Hugh Cooke and compiled by Paul Springperformance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190431287X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael LewisLong_Mock|title=The Blind SideMock Olympian|author=Michael Long
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|summary=I think my husband was a little taken aback to see me curled up on It started with an idle conversation just before the sofa engrossed in 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him a book about American Footballas part of his birthday present. I suppose I should admit that I didnIt was Time Out't actually know s guide to the history of the Olympics and it was going to be about American Footballcovered each of the summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Well, I knew it was about a boy who Sarah''played'' American Footballs boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael did, but Ihe'd thought that was just going to be probably have run in most of the background storyOlympic cities. Although Long had done a goodly number of runs, you know, like bike rides and triathlons he'd only competed in ''Jerry Maguire''. So two of the first chapter seemed to go on twenty-three cities - London and on foreverAthens. Now most of us would have left it at that, 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 the real heart of the story; that's not the story of Michael Oher, Long you're going to come to know and love. He saw it as a young African-American from the slums of Memphis whose father was never aroundchallenge and what's more, he blogged about it and whose mother was a drug addict and lost him to social services at a young agethen wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039333838X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Home|authortitle=Patrick Casey Home and Richard I HaleAway|titleauthor=For College, Club & Country - A History of Clifton Rugby Football ClubDave Roberts
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|summary=Clifton Rugby Football Club can proudly trace its history back to the very emergence of the sport of rugby union. Founded in September 1872, the same year that William Webb Ellis, who is reputed to have been the rebellious Rugby schoolboy who first ran with the ball, died. In reality, it is highly likely that the Webb Ellis story is something of a spin job on behalf of Rugby School, although it did mean that Rugby School was able to impose its rules on the game at a time when most public schools had their own rules for playing versions of the game.
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{{newreview
|author=Matt Allen
|title=Where Are They Now? - Rediscovering Over 100 Football Stars of the 70s and 80s
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|summary=This looks For most football fans, non-league clubs (that is, teams who play outside the top four divisions of English football) are like some peoplea distant relative fallen on hard times; you's worst idea re vaguely aware of their existence but have no particular wish to visit them. Apart from a book, ever. Trivia, nostalgia, footballfew weeks in early January, when the odd non-league club reaches the third round of the FA cup and lists embarks on a spot of giant- does killing, the lower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of devoted supporters. So what's it get more masculinelike to support a non-league team? There's not Enter Dave Roberts, a female fan of Bromley FC who are currently plying their trade in sight, either, as we get 101 portraits the Vanarama National League – the fifth tier of footballers from times pastEnglish football. In ''Home and Away'', Dave documents the highs and most importantly, a summary lows of their career since hanging up travelling the boots in country watching Bromley during the professional game2015/2016 season.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905156421</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philippe Auclair Mcgrath_Darley|title=CantonaMr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: The Rebel Who Would Be KingA History of Racing in 25 Horses|author=Christopher McGrath|rating=45
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|summary=Even though I'm not a Manchester United fan, Eric Cantona is All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of my all time favourite players just three stallions which came to England about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, The Darley Arabian and The Godolphin Arabian. The last century or so has seen a decline in the lines from the first and I was really excited last of these stallions, to get the opportunity to read a book extent that some 95% of all thoroughbreds worldwide - not just in England - are descended from The Darley Arabian, which was billed as revealing his innermost thoughtsoriginally bought in Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and shipped to Yorkshire in 1704, by Thomas Darley, who died, and being the definitive account of in difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his careerhorse home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706347</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Merry and Steve Emecz Mills_Top|title=Enabled: One Disabled Woman's Incredible Story of Tackling Her Disability in Pursuit of a Lifelong DreamTop Of The League|author=Andrea Mills
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|genre=AutobiographySport|summary=Ruth Merry has never been your common-or-garden young ladyFootball is known as the beautiful game and when I was younger I kind of believed this. Born I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with no ability my mates and then go home to move her legs, try and morecomplete my Panini sticker album. There was even the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. As I have grown older, due to a condition called arthrogryposis, she still became an avid equestrian, downhill skier, competitive swimmer, fund-raiser and moremy cynicism has grown too. At Leicester may be champions, but the beginning day I feel that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of this book slightly richer multimillionaires is a flippant comment inspires anotherwin for the everyman, future dream - that will be a sad one. Perhaps the love of going down football still burns bright in a four-man bobsleighthe 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>1904312322</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wendy KendallBradbury_Walks|title=Wind Driven: Barbara Kendall's StoryUnforgettable Walks|author=Julia Bradbury
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|genre=BiographySport|summary=Barbara Kendell is an extraordinary womanI've long been a fan of Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in walking - so the news that there would shortly be another series of programmes and a book to accompany the series was music to my ears. She has not only won windsurfing medals This time she's looking at three OlympicsBritain's best walks with a view and she roams through Dorset, she is a motherthe Cotswolds, Anglesey, an IOC representativethe Yorkshire Dales, public speaker and mentor. This biographythe Lakes, written by her sisterCumbria, tells the inspiring story of an extraordinary woman who overcame her personal challenges South Downs and remains at the top Peak District. Unless you're in Scotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, with a good spread around all points of her sport after twenty years of competitionthe compass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>186979043X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave RobertsMartin_When|title=The Bromley BoysWhen You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin
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|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Most football fans (except my brother, who refuses to have anything to do with anything that has anything to do with the Arsenal) will have read ''Fever Pitch'' by Nick Hornby. It's the definitive book on what it's like 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 of writing that was subsequently termed 'lad lit'. Despite its imitators, nothing has been as good as ''Fever Pitch''. Until now.
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{{newreview
|author=Tim Harris
|title=Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted To Know
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|summary=We all know one. Someone who can tell you who was the last player to score a hat trick for Accrington Stanley away to Grimsby on It's a Wednesday night in January. This was just little depressing when a random example34-year-old is publishing his second autobiography, by the waybut that's what this book is, so please donand Martin proves he't write in with the answers certainly not short on material. The kind author, for those of person you who don't know, is wonderful to have on your side at a Quiz Nightmechanic who dabbles in TV presenting and motorcycle racing, but who you donthough it't really want s the latter for which he will be most well-known. As an F1 widow to be getting into conversation a boy who likes all things fast, I thought he might like this book and so, perhaps unusually, I chose it with if you can avoid someone else in mind but made myself read itfirst.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224080210</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rowan SimonsMccoy_Winner|title=Bamboo GoalpostsWinner: My Racing Life|author=A P McCoy|rating=4
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|summary=When it comes to footballIn any walk of life, there are people who are universally known by their first names alone. In flat racing, Ieveryone knows who 'm Frankie' is and in agreement with the great Bill Shankly when he said: National Hunt, you need to say no more than 'A.P.'Football Legend is an over-used word but not a matter when it comes to the achievements of life Tony 'A.P.' McCoy. He's been champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and deathhis career record of 4,348 wins may never be beaten. In fact, it's far more important than tempting to say thatit will ''never'' be beaten. When it comes to China, my knowledge is limited to what I He've seen on s won the TV recently about Grand National, the earthquakeIrish Grand National, the Olympics two Cheltenham Gold Cups and won the protests; vague memories of Tiananmen Square and Champion Hurdle three times. Unusually for a love jockey, he's also been BBC Sports Personality of the cuisine, or at least the version that comes from my local takeawayYear. Like many in He achieved all this by the Western world, I have no concept age of what life is truly like in Chinaforty one when he retired from racing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230703720</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Plimpton Krien_Night|title=Paper LionNight Games: A Journey to the Dark Side of Sport|author=Anna Krien|rating=4.5
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|summary=Many Mere mortals relax by having a sports fan has dreamt game of footy of taking five wickets at Lord's or scoring the winning goal at the FA Cup Final at Wembley. For writer a weekend and American football aficionado George Plimpton that implausible fantasy became a reality.  Despite being 36 years old and possessing precisely zero in footballing credentialscouple of drinks, Plimpton was determined but what does a professional sportsman do to find cut loose? What do they do when they go out what 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 would take goes to become a pro quarterback with one court, interviewing some of Americathose directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. In deference to the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity, she's premier clubschosen to give the man who was charged the name of 'Justin Dyer' in an attempt to level the playing field, so to speak. You could Google the facts and come up with the Detroit Lionscorrect name, but this isn't a book of gossip about particular people. Paper Lion tells the story It's an investigation of his incredible adventurea culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1599210053</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cristiano Ronaldo Scott_Born|title=MomentsBorn to Rumble|author=Jeff Scott|rating=3.54
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|summary=For football fans the name ''Rumble''. It's an odd word, isn't it, with that sense of Cristiano Ronaldo conjures images a noise like thunder (or even of Manchester United a motorcycle engine) ''and '' of a street fight between rival gangs. Author Jeff Scott has picked the famous number 7 shirt worn by perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the likes combination of David Beckhambrakeless bikes, Eric Cantonaadrenalin, Bryan Robson ridiculous speeds and George Best in not a lot of space explode into a confrontation on or off the pasttrack. Originally thought of as nothing more than a nice face and hairstyle heIt's hardly surprising that it happens - in fact, it's now proving himself to be a footballer surprising that it doesn't happen more often given the competitive nature of great talent the sport and possibly even the best of his generation. ''Moments'' is not an autobiography but a series diva-like qualities of snapshots some of his lifethe top riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330457705</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|author=Renton Laidlaw|title=The R&A Golfer's Handbook |rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=Renton Laidlaw, former golf correspondent of The ''Evening Standard'' and respected commentator has been editing ''The R & A Golfer's Handbook'' for ten years. It's a veritable brick of a book and provides intelligent reading for anyone who is serious about the game, be they enthusiastic spectator, dedicated amateur or professional. It's not a book Move on to read through but one which will provide hours of browsing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704492</amazonuk>}} {{newreview |title=You'll Win Nothing With Kids|author=Jim White|genre=Sport|rating=4|summary=Jim White has coached his son's football team for the past six years. He is that touchline wally. He is the man who makes you nudge your neighbour in the sparsely-populated stand, point him out and say "Watch him. Look at him now. Ha. Oh. Oh my lord. What's he doing?" That is Jim White. Father and son and football. They love 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 in an entire week. It takes over the entire house. And now, it's even made it into a book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316029823</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Teens Reviews]]