A year ago, sportsjournalists.co.uk highlighted the fact that the 2006 William Hill Sports Book prize went to a book that had been first published in 2004. Here, ANTON RIPPON looks at the 2007 shortlist and is disappointed to discover it includes one book that is not really a sports book at all, plus a less-than-convincing […]
Anton Rippon reviews Not By A Long Shot by TD Thornton They call horse racing the sport of kings; in most cases, it is anything but. Strip away the royal patronage at the high end of the market, look beyond the multi-millionaire owners and the world-famous jockeys with their private aircraft, and you have the […]
Anton Rippon reviews the latest addition to the growing set of books about Brian Clough – Duncan Hamilton’s Provided You Don’t Kiss Me First a confession: I must be one of the few people who couldn’t get on with David Peace’s widely regarded book, The Damned United, which allegedly covers Brian Clough’s infamous 44 days […]
Randall Northam continues our series of reviews of the short-list for this year’s Sports Book of the Year Award If you take on the icons of sport you had better be on firm ground. Unfortunately, Guy Walters, author of Berlin Games: How Hitler stole the Olympic dream, is not when criticising Jesse Owens and Baron […]
For many, the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin were about two men: Adolf Hitler and Jesse Owens. The fascist dictator and the black athlete who single-handedly tore up the Aryan handbook. But there was more to it than that
