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[[Category:New Reviews|Sport]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=Hurst_Norfolk|title=SportOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=It was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in - and found a display of the most gorgeous pictures. I'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to make do with a couple of greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and I couldn't resist buying it.__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare BaldingIgnotofsky_Sport|title=My Animals and Other FamilyWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
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|genre=AutobiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Clare Balding was born into a racing family - her father, Ian, was ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the trainer of Mill Reef who won the Derby Winter Olympics in South Korea in 1971, the same year that Clare was bornFebruary 2018. Whilst her father would never forget the year that his horse won the Derby he would usually fail to remember that it was also It celebrates a century and a half of the year development of his daughterwomen's birthsport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Horses came first Think of a sport and they were the priority a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in Ian Balding's life: the family had to adjust accordinglythis book somewhere. He was Each entry is a double-page spread with a gifted brief biography and successful trainer who understood the animals in his care and his record, including Mill Reef's Derby success speaks for itselfa striking portrait. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard FitzpatrickBurrell_12|title=El Clasico - Barcelona v Real MadridTwelve Times To The Max: FootballOne Man's Greatest Rivalry|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=Nothing divides opinion quite like football and no-one expresses their joy and disappointment like football fans. For many fansJourney to, the most important matches of their entire season are the ones against their local rivals; the derby matches. English football has a number of these, but only the matches between Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain have elevated themselves above mere derby status and earned their own name: ''El Clásico'' – the Classic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408158795</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=The Secret Footballer|title=I Am The Secret Footballer: Lifting The Lid On The Beautiful Game|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=In the 2012 Olympic Games the UK delighted in the skills shown by our athletes. We were - naturally - pleased by the medals, but what impressed was the training and dedication of people who were frequently fitting what they did around the day job or study. For the most part they weren't reaping much in the way Recollections of financial rewards from what they did - but they shone. The exceptions were the footballers. I forget (and that might well be Freudian) ''exactly'' who beat us, but I doubt that there are many people pleased by the show they made. 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>}} {{newreviewSetting Twelve Verified World Records|author=Alan Tyers and Beach|title=I Kick Therefore I am: The Little Book of Premier League WisdomStuart Burrell
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|summary=You remember Ronnie Matthews, don't you? HeThe first of Stuart Burrell's world records, well, the footballer who celebrated his one – and so farfirst two, actually, only – international match by booing his way through the Faroe Islandsas he' national anthem, then getting s not a red card for chatting up the lineswoman. He still thinks he contributed well man to a vital friendlydo things by halves, howevercame about by accident. He's There had been a plan to raise some money for the player whose career Children in piddling his way through continuously lesser Need Charity and lesser clubs for far too long has only quite late on the people who were to have been matched in the recent game by Steve Claridgemain attraction got a better offer and Burrell is not a man to let people down. And still he's bucking the trend – he's the only author smart enough What could be done to realise that four-hundred pagebring people in and raise some money? Most of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, ghost-written biogs are unnecessarybut 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 he's crammed all his life, career, philosophy the Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in One Hour. Both were successful and response to Twitter into an hour's readmore than £300 was raised for Children in Need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832763</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo McKinstryLandreth_Swell|title=Jack Hobbs: England's Greatest CricketerSwell |author=Jenny Landreth
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|summary=Back in the early 1920s, there were only three Test cricket playing nations; England, Australia I love Jenny's own description of her book as a waterbiography and South AfricaI love her encouragement that we should each write our own. In This is more than just (I say ''just''!) a recollection of the summer of 2012, both nations have been on tourauthor's own encounters with water; Australia recently beaten comprehensively at one day cricket and South Africa about to start it's also a test series history of women's fight for the right to determine the best Test nation in the worldswim. Given that history is repeating itselfThat sounds absurd until you start reading about it, then it seems appropriate that becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of the absurd. Not a new biography lover of Jack Hobbsbook blurbs myself, EnglandI 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 greatest run scorer and a man who repeatedly blunted ''giggles-on-the bowling attacks of both nations, should become available now-commute funny''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083309</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beth RaymerOakeshott_Derby|title=Lay the Favourite: A True Story about Playing Guide to Win in the Gambling Underworld|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It was a dream which brought Beth Raymer Classics: Or How 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, Pick the self-styled king of the city's sports betting and she moved into what was very much a man's world - of high-stakes gambling and a lot of people you wouldn't necessarily want your daughter to know. This is the story of how Beth learned the trade and moved into the world of the big money where gambling regulations don't apply. Being sharp was what it was all about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555395</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDerby Winner|author=Paul Watson|title=Up Pohnpei: A quest to reclaim the soul of football by leading the world's ultimate underdogs to gloryGuy Griffith and Michael Oakeshott
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|summary=IIt'm s not often that you get a huge fan glimpse into the personal, youthful interests of one of both football and reading, so a book about football is always likely to appeal to me as the best way greatest Conservative philosophers of combining the two. Recentlytwentieth century, Ibut ''ve read books set at the pinnacle of A Guide to the game in [[Life with Sir Alex: A FanClassics's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is a light-hearted look at Manchester United by Will Tidey]] and about one man's struggle how to bring football to a foreign land pick the Derby winner. Originally written in [[Bamboo Goalposts 1936 it is, amazingly, as relevant today as it was then. In fact, the techniques and analysis employed by Rowan Simons]]. ''Up'' ''Pohnpei'' is firmly in the latter category, treading very similar ground to Simons' bookauthors were way ahead of their time and have only come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668501X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will TideyGibbons_Game|title=Life with Sir Alex: A Fan's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester UnitedThe Beautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons
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|summary=In his 25 years as manager of Manchester United Football Club, Sir Alex Ferguson has won everything, most of them more than onceis all about its colours. He's taken his And even if I write in the season when one team in blue knocks another team to in blue from the top throne of English football with some lavish purchases, some expert man management and a ruthless dedication it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to his club and his playerswear. Depending which side But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the fence you sit 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 onabout colour, this has made him either where were the most popular, or most hated, man people of colour in English football. I'm in the latter group. Iolden days? There are so many darker sides to football's history it'm s enough to make a Liverpool fan.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408149516</amazonuk>young lad question the whole game…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark KreidlerAskwith_Today|title=The Voodoo Wave - Inside Today We Die a Season of Triumph and Tumult at Maverick'sLittle: Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War Hero|author=Richard Askwith
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|summary=Maverick's is one of the biggest, nastiestAs a runner myself, jaw droppingly huge waves in the Pacific Ocean and as such has become something of a Mecca I often look for the world's top surfers. Situated off the coast sources of Northern California its freezing cold conditions make it a far cry from the sun drenched breaks in Hawaii, Mexico and South Africa with the number of surfers adequately qualified (and fearless enough) to take on the cliff like drops probably numbering less than 100inspiration.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393065359</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Ridley|title=There's A Golden Sky: How 20 years of the Premier League has changed football forever|rating=5|genre=Sport|summary=Twenty years ago the Premier League was foundedTraining is rewarding, changing English football irreversiblybut every so often a day comes along when I question whether it is all worth it or not. Also 20 years agoZatopek proves that is, journalist Ian Ridley wrote the classic ''Season In The Cold''indeed, a snapshot of the game at the timeall worth it. Since then, clubs have risen and fallen, players have become legends, and Ridley himself has become chairman He put copious amounts of not one but two non-league clubs – first Weymoutheffort into his training, from 2003-2004 (and again briefly in 2009) and more recently St Albans City. In this stunning follow-up to Season In The Cold, Ridley explore the effect that number of races he won over his career as a professional athlete clearly shows the changes in the sport have had at all levelsresults of it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408130408</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Goldblatt and Johnny ActonPavey_Mum|title=How to Watch the Olympics: Scores and laws, heroes and zeros – an instant initiation to every sportThis Mum Runs|author=Jo Pavey
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|summary=Are you planning an Olympic telefest for I am something of a few weeks in July 2012? Are you one self-confessed running addict: I think nothing of hitting the lucky people who have tickets to their chosen events? Or are you one of those many people who are genuinely confused by the rulesroads for 50 miles a week, or the scoring and who would like spend much of my time searching for races to know a little more so that they can understand what it's run all about? If so, you should look no further. We have over the book for youcountry. Whether you're heading That is, until I wound up with a persistent sports injury, hung up my running shoes for London or going no further than the television we have nearly a year, and switched the background road to the sportspool.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684757</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin Mitchell|title=Jacobs Beach: The Mob, At the Garden, and time I thought nothing could alleviate the Golden Age misery of Boxing|rating=5|genre=Sport|summary=Despite not being a particular fan of the sport of boxingable to run; but now I wish I had had Jo Pavey's autobiography, Kevin Mitchell's compelling knowledge 'This Mum Runs'', to keep me company because the elite athlete’s account of the personalities involved in the fight game in the 20th centuryOlympics, injury, family, coupled with a staccato writing style which got my attention quickly and kept it to the very last pagelife, in general, meant this book actually rose far above my expectationsfalls nothing short of inspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224075098</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scott Murray and Simon FarnabyLee_Lean|title=The Phantom of The Open: Maurice Flitcroft, the World's Worst GolferLean Gains|author=Jonathan S Lee
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|summary=Maurice Flitcroft was forty six when he played his first round of golfI don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't'' but in this case I think it's important. Most golfers start on If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking to shed a few pounds then you won't get the local course and hack around until they develop some skill. Not Mauricebest out of this book. That wasnYou't his way. He borrowed ll find some books on golf from the library and decided good advice about diet but I'm afraid that he was much of it is going to enter the Opengo over your head. Yes – the OpenOf course you could always take up a sport seriously.. No starting at the bottom and working his way up – Maurice went straight for the big one. He ran up a score of 121 and On the R&A (that's Royal and Ancient other hand, if you're not 'are'' a golf fan) went ballistic. It might be said serious sportsman then you could find that they lacked a sense the advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the next level of humour but golf at this level is a serious game and Maurice was banned for lifeperformance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083171</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan CaseyLong_Mock|title=The Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest FuriesMock Olympian|author=Michael Long
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|summary=TheyIt started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him a book as part of his birthday present. It was Time Out're powerful enough s guide to capsize unsinkable ships, wrench oil rigs from their moorings the history of the Olympics and can destroy vast swathes it covered each of coastal regionsthe summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael did, flattening everything he'd probably have run in their path most of the Olympic cities. Although Long had done a goodly number of runs, bike rides and killing thousands triathlons he'd only competed in two of people in the processtwenty-three cities - London and Athens. So what is Now most of us would have left it at that makes some men, but that's not the Michael Long you're going to come to know and love. He saw it is mostly men, go in search of these oceanic monsters? That is as a challenge and what Susan Casey tries to find out in this engaging's more, often awe inspiring he blogged about it and sometimes terrifying look at the world of big wave surfingthen wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531763</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Bateman and Jeff Hill (Editors)Roberts_Home|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, Home 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>}} {{newreviewAway|author=Victoria Coren|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>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Fordyce and Ben Dirs|title=We Could be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships|rating=5|genre=Sport|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 in his prime. But Tom’s ambition of winning a worldchampionship is still completely unachievable, surely? You don’t go from BBC blogger to 100m champion, football World Cup winner, or even the number 1 snooker player on Earth, after all. On the other hand, there are some more obscure Championships out there… could these two unlikely heroes make their dreams come true, and be recognised 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-kicking, Dirs and Fordyce try snail racing, wife carrying, nettle eating, and many more weird and wonderful events. The only thing they have in common is the humour which the pair see in all of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230736157</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jakob Lovstad|title=Going Mental: Reaching Your Goals in Business and Sports - Full Contact NLP Coaching from a Full Contact FighterDave Roberts
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|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>
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{{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
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|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 the course all that promise drains awayEngland about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, leaving you stuck with the high handicappers? Do you know that you're better than this, but somehow you never seem to realise your potential? Yes? Then you '''need''' this book – The Darley Arabian and the probability is that you don't just need it on the golf course, but in 'real' life tooThe Godolphin Arabian. Maybe you're The last century or so has seen a more proficient golfer than that? You do ''quite '' well on the course? Then this book will show you how you can improve even more.|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 decline in horse racing: the yard on lines from the edge first and last of these stallions, to the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire and currently the home extent that some 95% of trainer Brian Meehan. But Paul Mathieu isn't looking at what's happening today, or even all thoroughbreds worldwide - not just in the recent past; he's looking back at the men who made Manton a household name England - are descended from when the yard The Darley Arabian, which was built originally bought in 1870 through Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and shipped to George Todd's death Yorkshire in 1974. The first master was Alec Taylor – generally known as 'Old Alec Taylor'1704, by Thomas Darley, who came to Manton from Fyfield with a string of classic winners to his name. Hedied, in difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his son, 'Young Alec', Joe Lawson and George Todd were the great names in just over a century at the yardhorse home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955389402</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Royal and AncientMills_Top|title=Decisions on the Rules of Golf 2010 - 2011|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=Top Of 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. 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>}} {{newreviewLeague|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>}} {{newreview|author=David Lane|title=England 'Til I Die - A celebration of England's amazing supportersAndrea Mills
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FeinsteinBradbury_Walks|title=Moment of Glory: The Year Tiger Lost His Swing and Underdogs Ruled the MajorsUnforgettable Walks|author=Julia Bradbury
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catrine ClayMartin_When|title=Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup LegendWhen You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael LewisMccoy_Winner|title=The Blind SideWinner: My Racing Life|author=A P McCoy
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|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>
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{{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
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philippe Auclair Scott_Born|title=Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be KingBorn to Rumble|author=Jeff Scott
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