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[[Category:New Reviews|Sport]] ==Sport==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Beth Raymer|title=Lay the Favourite: 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 Remove - 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul WatsonHurst_Norfolk|title=Up PohnpeiOn My Way: A quest to reclaim the soul of football by leading the world's ultimate underdogs to gloryNorfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst

|genre=SportArt|summary=I'm It was pure serendipity: after a huge fan of both football and readingfive-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, so a book about football is always likely left with an hour to appeal fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to me as our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the best way church hall, so we went in - and found a display of combining the twomost gorgeous pictures. Recently, I've read books set at the pinnacle of the game in [[Life with Sir Alex: A Fan's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester United by Will Tidey]] d cheerfully have bought every one and about one man's struggle to bring football hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to make do with a foreign land in [[Bamboo Goalposts by Rowan Simons]]. couple of greetings cards when I saw ''Up'On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks' 'and I couldn'Pohnpei'' is firmly in the latter category, treading very similar ground to Simons' bookt resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668501X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will TideyIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Life with Sir AlexWomen in Sport: A Fan's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester UnitedFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=45|genre=SportChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=In his 25 years as manager of Manchester United Football Club, Sir Alex Ferguson has won everything, most of them more than once. He's taken his team 'Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the top of English football with some lavish purchases, some expert man management Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a ruthless dedication to his club and his players. Depending which side half of the fence you sit ondevelopment of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, this has made him either the most popularcovering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, or most hatedskating, man in English footballand much more. I'm Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in the latter groupthis book somewhere. I'm Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a Liverpool fanstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408149516</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark KreidlerBurrell_12|title=Twelve Times To The Voodoo Wave - Inside a Season of Triumph and Tumult at MaverickMax: One Man'sJourney to, and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World Records|author=Stuart Burrell

|summary=MaverickThe first of Stuart Burrell's is one of world records, well, the biggestfirst two, nastiestactually, jaw droppingly huge waves in the Pacific Ocean and as such has become something of a Mecca for the worldhe's top surfersnot a man to do things by halves, came about by accident. Situated off the coast of Northern California its freezing cold conditions make it There had been a far cry from plan to raise some money for the sun drenched breaks Children in Hawaii, Mexico Need Charity and South Africa with quite late on the number people who were to have been the main attraction got a better offer and Burrell is not a man to let people down. What could be done to bring people in and raise some money? Most of us would have thought of surfers adequately qualified (jumble sales and fearless enough) to take on 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 cliff like drops probably numbering less Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in One Hour. Both were successful and more than 100£300 was raised for Children in Need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393065359</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian RidleyLandreth_Swell|title=There's A Golden Sky: How 20 years of the Premier League has changed football foreverSwell |author=Jenny Landreth

|summary=Twenty years ago the Premier League was founded, changing English football irreversiblyI love Jenny's own description of her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own. Also 20 years ago, journalist Ian Ridley wrote the classic This is more than just (I say ''Season In The Coldjust'', !) a snapshot recollection of the game at author's own encounters with water; it's also a history of women's fight for the timeright to swim. Since That sounds absurd until you start reading about it, then, clubs have risen and fallen, players have become legends, and Ridley himself has become chairman it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of the absurd. Not a lover of not one but two non-league clubs – first Weymouthbook blurbs myself, from 2003I do always seek to give a shout-2004 (and again briefly out to those who get it dead right: in 2009) and more recently St Albans City. In this stunning followcase, I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-up to Season In The Cold, Ridley explore the effect that the changes in the sport have had at all levels-commute funny''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408130408</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Goldblatt and Johnny ActonOakeshott_Derby|title=A Guide to the Classics: Or How to Watch Pick the Olympics: Scores Derby Winner|author=Guy Griffith and laws, heroes and zeros – an instant initiation to every sportMichael Oakeshott

|summary=Are It's not often that you planning an Olympic telefest for get a few weeks in July 2012? Are you glimpse into the personal, youthful interests of one of the lucky people who have tickets to their chosen events? Or are you one greatest Conservative philosophers of those many people who are genuinely confused by the rulestwentieth century, or but ''A Guide to the scoring and who would like Classics'' co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is a light-hearted look at how to know a little more so that they can understand what pick the Derby winner. Originally written in 1936 it's all about? If sois, amazingly, you should look no furtheras relevant today as it was then. We have In fact, the book for you. Whether you're heading for London or going no further than techniques and analysis employed by the television we authors were way ahead of their time and have the background to the sportsonly come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684757</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin MitchellGibbons_Game|title=Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden, and the Golden Age of BoxingBeautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons|rating=54

|summary=Despite not being a particular fan of 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 sport throne of boxingEnglish football, Kevin Mitchellit's compelling common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to wear. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the personalities involved Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? And while we're on about colour, where were the fight game people of colour in football in the 20th century, coupled with a staccato writing style which got my attention quickly and kept olden days? There are so many darker sides to football's history it 's enough to make a young lad question the very last page, meant this book actually rose far above my expectations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224075098</amazonuk>whole game…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scott Murray and Simon FarnabyAskwith_Today|title=The Phantom of The OpenToday We Die a Little: Maurice FlitcroftEmil Zatopek, the World's Worst GolferOlympic Legend to Cold War Hero|author=Richard Askwith

|summary=Maurice Flitcroft was forty six when he played his first round As a runner myself, I often look for sources of golfinspiration. Most golfers start on the local course and hack around until they develop some skillTraining is rewarding, but every so often a day comes along when I question whether it is all worth it or not. Not MauriceZatopek proves that is, indeed, all worth it. That wasn't He put copious amounts of effort into his way. He borrowed some books on golf from training, and the library and decided that number of races he was going to enter the Open. Yes – the Open. No starting at the bottom and working won over his way up – Maurice went straight for the big one. He ran up career as a score of 121 and professional athlete clearly shows the R&A (that's Royal and Ancient if you're not a golf fan) went ballistic. It might be said that they lacked a sense results of humour but golf at this level is a serious game and Maurice was banned for lifeit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083171</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan CaseyPavey_Mum|title=The Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest FuriesThis Mum Runs|author=Jo Pavey

|summary=They're powerful enough to capsize unsinkable ships, wrench oil rigs from their moorings and can destroy vast swathes I am something of a self-confessed running addict: I think nothing of coastal regionshitting the roads for 50 miles a week, flattening everything in their path and killing thousands spend much of people in my time searching for races to run all over the processcountry. So what That is it that makes some men, until I wound up with a persistent sports injury, hung up my running shoes for nearly a year, and it is mostly menswitched the road to the pool. At 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'', go in search to keep me company because the elite athlete’s account of these oceanic monsters? That is what Susan Casey tries to find out the Olympics, injury, family, and life, in this engaginggeneral, often awe inspiring and sometimes terrifying look at the world falls nothing short of big wave surfinginspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531763</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Bateman and Jeff Hill (Editors)Lee_Lean|title=The Cambridge Companion to CricketLean Gains|author=Jonathan S Lee|rating=4.5

|summary=Cricket has an international reach which can be rivaled I don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't'' but in this case I think it's important. If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking to shed a few other team sports, and pounds then you won't get the best out of this book looks at the history . You'll find some good advice about diet but I'm afraid that much of the game it is going from England around the world to go over your head. Of course you could always take up a sport seriously... On the other major Test-playing nations. While ithand, if you ''are''s packed full of initially rather dauntingly dense prose, none of a serious sportsman then you could find that the 17 chapters are particularly long – most weighing advice in at a little under 20 pages – and ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the writing styles next level of all of the various authors are very accessibleperformance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521167876</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria CorenLong_Mock|title=For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions of a Player|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Some things are in the blood. For Victoria Coren it was cards. As a child she and brother Giles were taught to play Blackjack by their grandfather. He called it Pontoon but the most valuable lesson was that grandfather was ''always'' the dealer and ''always'' the winner. Giles played Poker but wasn't really a gambler. Victoria was one of life's risk-takers and she leant to the more adventurous side of her father'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 she's won a million dollars, but for her it's never been about the money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847672930</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Mock Olympian|author=Tom Fordyce and Ben Dirs|title=We Could be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World ChampionshipsMichael Long|rating=54

|summary=Meet Ben Dirs. Apart from having one of It started with an idle conversation just before the most unfortunate names on record, he’s 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him a fairly laid-back guy whose daily breakfast consists book as part of two cigaretteshis birthday present. Compared It was Time Out's guide to Dirs, his BBC colleague Tom Fordyce – a keen amateur triathlete – looks like Daley Thompson the history of the Olympics and it covered each of the summer Olympics in his prime. But Tom’s ambition of winning a worldchampionship is still completely unachievable, surely? You don’t go chronological order from BBC blogger to 100m champion, football World Cup winner, or even the number 1 snooker player on Earth, after inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all. On the other handrunning Michael did, there are some more obscure Championships out there… could these two unlikely heroes make their dreams come truehe'd probably have run in most of the Olympic cities. Although Long had done a goodly number of runs, bike rides and be recognised as triathlons he'd only competed in two of the best shin kickers in twenty-three cities - London and Athens. Now most of us would have left it at that, but that's not the world? Not if Rory McGrath has anything Michael Long you're going to do with it! In addition come to the Cotswold Olympicks know and their shin-kicking, Dirs love. He saw it as a challenge and Fordyce try snail racing, wife carrying, nettle eatingwhat's more, he blogged about it and many more weird and wonderful events. The only thing they have in common is the humour which the pair see in all of themthen wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230736157</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jakob LovstadRoberts_Home|title=Going Mental: Reaching Your Goals in Business Home and Sports - Full Contact NLP Coaching from a Full Contact FighterAway|author=Dave Roberts

|summary=Some books seem determined to put For most football fans, non-league clubs (that is, teams who play outside the top four divisions of English football) are like a distant relative fallen on hard times; you off. Unless it's literary fiction 'Going Mental' suggests something that I've gone to great lengths re vaguely aware of their existence but have no particular wish to avoidvisit them. The man Apart from a few weeks in early January, when the odd non-league club reaches the third round of the FA cup and embarks on a spot of giant-killing, the cover is bald, bloodied and apparently screaminglower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of devoted supporters. ISo what've been avoiding men s it like that tooto support a non-league team? Enter Dave Roberts, a fan of Bromley FC who are currently plying their trade in the Vanarama National League – the fifth tier of English football. In ''…not for the soft Home and sensitive!Away' it says and whilst I wouldn't describe myself as either I do wonder whether allowing Jakob Lovstad to mess with my head is , Dave documents the wisest thing I've ever done. When I realise that he's a cage fighter I'm ready to run. What has that got to do with my business? Because that's what this book is about – reaching your goals in business highs and sportslows of travelling the country watching Bromley during the 2015/2016 season.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685588</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Stephen SimpsonMcgrath_Darley|title=Play Magic Golf - How to use self-hypnosisMr Darley's Arabian: High Life, meditationLow Life, Zen, universal laws, quantum energy, and the latest psychological and NLP techniques to be a better golfer Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses|author=Christopher McGrath

|summary=Do you find that when you're at the driving range or on the practice ground you're full All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of promise but once you translate this 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 course all that promise drains away, leaving you stuck with lines from the high handicappers? Do you know that you're better than thisfirst and last of these stallions, but somehow you never seem to realise your potential? Yes? Then you '''need''' this book – and the probability is extent that you don't some 95% of all thoroughbreds worldwide - not just need it on the golf coursein England - are descended from The Darley Arabian, which was originally bought in Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and shipped to Yorkshire in 1704, by Thomas Darley, who died, but in 'real' life too. Maybe you're a more proficient golfer than that? You do ''quite '' well on the course? Then this book will show you how you can improve even moredifficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685014</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Paul Mathieu|title=The Masters of Manton: From Alec Taylor to George Todd|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary='Manton' is one of those iconic names in horse racing: 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 to his name. He, his son, 'Young Alec', Joe Lawson and George Todd were the great names in just over a century at the yard.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955389402</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Royal and AncientMills_Top|title=Decisions on the Rules of Golf 2010 - 2011|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=The rules of golf are complex, but designed so that they give no unfair advantages or disadvantages to any players across the full range of abilities. Followed faithfully and honestly they should ensure a fair and comfortable game for all. But times have changed and there are always situations which are not explicitly covered by the rules. Top Of The Royal and Ancient receives over three thousand written requests for clarification each year – and these are not frivolous requests since they will only be considered if they are submitted by a representative of the committee in charge of the particular competition. 'Decisions on the Rules of Golf' is the accumulated wisdom on situations which might be considered ambiguous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>060062045X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Hutchinson|title=Missing the Boat: Chasing a Childhood Sailing Dream|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=As a youngster 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 the Olympic Games, America's Cup and Round the World yacht races. Trouble was, Hutchinson proved to be a deeply mediocre dinghy sailor, clocking up only one win in several seasons round the buoys. Although he was good enough at race tactics and seamanship, he lacked the sprinkling of gold dust that differentiates the very good performer from the brilliant. And so eventually, as is the way of sensible young men, he became disenchanted and stopped trying. Ironically, he then found he had a talent for cycling which took him as far as the Commonwealth Games.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552345</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLeague|author=David Lane|title=England 'Til I Die - A celebration of England's amazing supportersAndrea Mills

|summary=To start with, an admission. Football is known as the beautiful game and when I am an English fan of football, but was younger I am not a fan kind of England’s football squadbelieved this. Hardly ever I would I prefer spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home to see try and complete my Panini sticker album. There was even the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the Three Lions triumphanttitle. As I never got into have grown older, my cynicism has grown too. Leicester may be champions, but the habitday I feel that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the everyman, partly because I never saw will be a sad one. Perhaps the singularly English habit love of supporting football still burns bright in the underdog as making any sense. youth of today? Plus you'll never get me standing up 'Top Of the League'' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts and singing that awful tune before figures all about the match. But here are testimonies from twenty or so people who see things completely differently to meball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906796505</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FeinsteinBradbury_Walks|title=Moment of Glory: The Year Tiger Lost His Swing and Underdogs Ruled the MajorsUnforgettable Walks|author=Julia Bradbury

|summary=Despite the picture I've long been a fan of Tiger Woods Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in walking - so the dust jacket this news that there would shortly be another series of programmes and a book is only incidentally about him. Between 2000 and 2002 Woods had dominated top-class golf, winning six of to accompany the twelve majorsseries was music to my ears. But heThis time she's looking at Britain's always after improvement best walks with a view and he sacked his swing coach she roams through Dorset, the Cotswolds, Anglesey, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lakes, Cumbria, the South Downs and turned to someone newthe Peak District. The swing is the engine of a golferUnless you're in Scotland there's game and tinkering something reasonably close to just about everyone, with a good swing has major implications. For Woods it meant that he floundered out spread around all points of the big money 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 advantage, but it wasn't to becompass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442455</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catrine ClayMartin_When|title=Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup LegendWhen You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin

|summary=The midIt's a little depressing when a 34-year-nineteenth century represented the sporting equivalent of the old is publishing his second autobiography, but that'big bang' in terms of winter sports in England, giving rise to the development of s what today we call rugby unionthis book is, football and rugby league, all from the same originMartin proves he's certainly not short on material. Perhaps due to its popularity amongst the public schools of the dayThe author, rugby union for many years claimed the moral high groundthose of you who don't know, advocating amateurism is a mechanic who dabbles in TV presenting and an emphasis on playing the game rather than providing a public spectacle. Indeedmotorcycle racing, the arguments over the dangers of professionalism, which initially led to the split into rugby league from the Northern clubs, continued in union for well over a hundred years right up to the former England captain Will Carlingthough it's description of the powers that latter for which he will be of the RFU as 'old farts'most well-known. In 1896 Bertrand Fletcher Robinson, together with contributions from As an F1 widow to a few leading players of the dayboy who likes all things fast, wrote Rugby Football which was the first volume in a successful nine-part series on Sports I thought he might like this book and Pastimes that was written for the Isthmian Library. This edition is effectively a facsimile of that bookso, perhaps unusually, I chose it with the addition of an introduction, penned by Patrick Casey and Hugh Cooke and compiled by Paul Springsomeone else in mind but made myself read it first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190431287X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael LewisMccoy_Winner|title=The Blind SideWinner: My Racing Life|author=A P McCoy

|summary=I think my husband was a little taken aback to see me curled up on the sofa engrossed in a book about American FootballIn any walk of life, there are people who are universally known by their first names alone. I suppose I should admit that I didnIn flat racing, everyone knows who 'Frankie't actually know it was going is and in National Hunt, you need to be about American Footballsay no more than 'A.P. ' Well, I knew Legend is an over-used word but not when it was about a boy who comes to the achievements of Tony 'A.P.'playedMcCoy. He'' American Footballs been champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and his career record of 4,348 wins may never be beaten. In fact, but Iit'd thought s tempting to say that was just going to be the background story, you know, like in it will ''Jerry Maguirenever''be beaten. So He's won the Grand National, the first chapter seemed to go on and on foreverIrish Grand National, two Cheltenham Gold Cups and I thought my head might pop from reading about quarterbacks and blind sides and plays and offence and defence and running statisticswon the Champion Hurdle three times...but then somehow I stumbled to the real heart Unusually for a jockey, he's also been BBC Sports Personality of the story; Year. He achieved all this by the story age of Michael Oher, a young African-American forty one when he retired from the slums of Memphis whose father was never around, and whose mother was a drug addict and lost him to social services at a young ageracing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039333838X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Casey and Richard I HaleKrien_Night|title=For College, Club & Country - Night Games: A History of Clifton Rugby Football Club|rating=4|genre=History|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 Journey 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 Dark Side 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312756</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSport|author=Matt Allen |title=Where Are They Now? - Rediscovering Over 100 Football Stars of the 70s and 80s Anna Krien

|summary=This looks like some people's worst idea Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a bookweekend and a couple of drinks, ever. Triviabut 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, nostalgiajust into his twenties and follows the case as it goes to court, footballinterviewing some of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. In deference to the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity, and lists - does it get more masculine? Thereshe's not a female chosen to give the man who was charged the name of 'Justin Dyer' in sight, either, as we get 101 portraits of footballers from times pastan attempt to level the playing field, so to speak. You could Google the facts and most importantlycome up with the correct name, but this isn't a summary book of gossip about particular people. It's an investigation of their career since hanging up the boots in the professional gamea culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905156421</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philippe Auclair Scott_Born|title=Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be KingBorn to Rumble|author=Jeff Scott

|summary=Even though I'm not a Manchester United fan, Eric Cantona is one of my all time favourite players and I was really excited to get the opportunity to read a book which was billed as revealing his innermost thoughts, and being the definitive account of his career'Rumble''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706347</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ruth Merry and Steve Emecz |title=Enabled: One Disabled WomanIt's Incredible Story of Tackling Her Disability in Pursuit of a Lifelong Dream|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Ruth Merry has never been your common-or-garden young lady. Born with no ability to move her legs, and more, due to a condition called arthrogryposis, she still became an avid equestrianodd word, downhill skierisn't it, competitive swimmer, fund-raiser and more. At the beginning with that sense of this book a flippant comment inspires another, future dream - that noise like thunder (or even of going down in a four-man bobsleigh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312322</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Wendy Kendall|title=Wind Driven: Barbara Kendallmotorcycle engine) ''and''s Story|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Barbara Kendell is an extraordinary womanof a street fight between rival gangs. She Author Jeff Scott has not only won windsurfing medals picked the perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at three Olympics, she is a motherthose occasions when the combination of brakeless bikes, an IOC representativeadrenalin, public speaker ridiculous speeds and mentor. This biography, written by her sister, tells the inspiring story not a lot of an extraordinary woman who overcame her personal challenges and remains at space explode into a confrontation on or off the top of her sport after twenty years of competition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>186979043X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dave Roberts|title=The Bromley Boys|rating=4.5|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 Hornbytrack. It's the definitive book on what hardly surprising that 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 happens - in fact, it's like to be a football supporter. It also gave birth to a genre of writing surprising that was subsequently termed it doesn'lad lit'. Despite its imitators, nothing has been as good as ''Fever Pitch''. Until now.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906032246</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tim Harris|title=Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted To Know|rating=3.5|genre=Sport|summary=We all know one. Someone who can tell you who was t happen more often given the last player to score a hat trick for Accrington Stanley away to Grimsby on a Wednesday night in January. This was just a random example, by competitive nature of the way, so please don't write in with sport and the answer. The kind diva-like qualities of some of person who is wonderful to have on your side at a Quiz Night, but who you don't really want to be getting into conversation with if you can avoid itthe top riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224080210</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Rowan Simons|title=Bamboo Goalposts|rating=4 |genre=Sport|summary=When it comes to football, I'm in agreement with the great Bill Shankly when he said: ''Football is not a matter of life and death, it's far more important than that''. When it comes to China, my knowledge is limited to what I've seen Move on the TV recently about the earthquake, the Olympics and the protests; vague memories of Tiananmen Square and a love of the cuisine, or at least the version that comes from my local takeaway. Like many in the Western world, I have no concept of what life is truly like in China.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230703720</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=George Plimpton |title=Paper Lion|rating=4.5 |genre=Sport|summary=Many a sports fan has dreamt of taking five wickets at Lord's or scoring the winning goal at the FA Cup Final at Wembley. For writer and American football aficionado George Plimpton that implausible fantasy became a reality.  Despite being 36 years old and possessing precisely zero in footballing credentials, Plimpton was determined to find out what it would take to become a pro quarterback with one of America's premier clubs, the Detroit Lions. Paper Lion tells the story of his incredible adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1599210053</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cristiano Ronaldo |title=Moments|rating=3.5|genre=Sport|summary=For football fans the name of Cristiano Ronaldo conjures images of Manchester United and the famous number 7 shirt worn by the likes of David Beckham, Eric Cantona, Bryan Robson and George Best in the past. Originally thought of as nothing more than a nice face and hairstyle he's now proving himself to be a footballer of great talent and possibly even the best of his generation. ''Moments'' is not an autobiography but a series of snapshots of his life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330457705</amazonuk>}} {{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 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]]