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Current top 10 sports books
The 10 latest and best sports books with savings of up
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Get It On: How the ?70s Rocked Football By Jon Spurling
Release date: 04th March, 2022
Publisher: Biteback
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A history and politics teacher, author Jon Spurling skilfully and knowledgeably puts football?s 1970s story into context.
Hooliganism was rife at football grounds. Trips to away fixtures could be hairy if, say, your coach was ?bricked? by home fans. (read review)
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Time on Rock By Anna Fleming
Release date: 15th January, 2022
Publisher: Canongate
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Anna Fleming was at university when she made her first tentative foray into the world of rock climbing, initially satisfied with tackling indoor gym walls in what was essentially a man?s sport.
Perhaps the biggest change she has witnessed since then, en route to becoming a ?competent leader? of mountain climbers, has been the sport?s continued ? and growing ? appeal to females.
(read review)
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41-Love: A Memoir By Scarlett Thomas
Release date: 04th January, 2022
Publisher: Counterpoint
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Thomas is an accomplished author and professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of Kent. However, during her re-evaluation of life, Ms Thomas harks back to her more athletic days and vigorously scratches a long-standing sporting itch: to compete professionally in tennis and become a world-ranked player. She undertakes to do this at the age of 41 having abandoned tennis twenty seven years earlier. (read review)
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Anatomy of a Football Scout by Jon Cotterill
Release date: 07th February, 2022
Publisher: Camara Brasileira
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Would you enjoy watching football for a living, perhaps taking in five or six matches a week?
For many football supporters, this would be a dream job: analysing a Premier League team?s future opponents, spotting a potential weakness or a hidden strength before submitting your detailed report and discussing its content with the team manager eager to hear your opinion.
(read review)
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Sweat: A History of Physical Exercise By Bill Hayes
Release date: 20th January, 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Sport
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Considering the billions of people who exercise on a regular basis, it?s odd that an unequivocal relationship between moderate exercise and improved health wasn?t properly presented, ie with scientific evidence, until as recently as 1953. (read review)
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52 Ways to Walk By Annabel Streets
Release date: 17th February, 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Sport
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It could be argued that the pandemic has had at least one positive impact upon millions of folks: it?s ignited, or in many cases re-ignited, a love of walking.
(read review)
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Fit And Proper People By Martin Calladine & James Cave
Release date: 16th February, 2022
Publisher: Pitch Publishing
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Martin Calladine has teamed up with James Cave to produce another intelligent read, Fit And Proper People, the story of a revolutionary ?product? that football fans were desperate to work and in which they were happy to invest before the fa?ade collapsed. (read review)
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God is Dead The Rise & Fall of Frank Vandenbrouke By Andy McGrath
Release date: 10th March, 2022
Publisher: Bantam Books
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Sport?s voluminous annals are littered with tales of supremely talented individuals playing a large part in their own, usually rapid fall from grace. There are multiple reasons: alcohol, ?recreational? drugs, an unsettled personality, marital or relationship problems. These plus a host of others have caused far too many sportsmen and women to either abandon their careers completely, or slip from the heights they once took for granted only to find themselves unable to negotiate a return to the top. (read review)
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