The fixtures that forged a nation

David Thomas

FIRST, AN ADMISSION. YOUR REVIEWER is a sports nut. It started with the LA Olympics of 1984, glued to the TV with my grandmother, as indiscriminate in her love of any competition as I subsequently became. It didn’t matter when all the football migrated to satellite channels. There was still wet and windy rugby league on Grandstand, the NFL on Channel 4. Indoor bowls, outdoor bowls, kabaddi, I had it bad. This matters because the addict implicitly expects something from a book about sport and David Horspool’s fascinating More than a Game will test you if you are looking for the quick thrill of “I hit the ball, Brian, and there it was in the back of the net”. It starts with some gentle mis-selling. We get those cinematic, climactic…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2024

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