Review of: Tommy Boyle – Broken Hero The Story of a Football Legend by Mike Smith Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd., 2011 [This is an extended version of a book review that appears in When Saturday Comes] Until 2004, when Arsenal’s ‘Invincibles’ went unbeaten through a full Premier League season, Burnley held the record for the… Continue reading From Crystal Palace to Lunatic Asylum: The Life and Death of a Local Hero
Category: Book Reviews
The International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System
Jean-Loup Chappelet and Brenda Kübler-Mabbott, The International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System: The Governance of World Sport, Routledge, 2008, 208pp. + xiv ISBN 978-0-415-43168-2 (This is an amended version of a book review to be published in the academic journal Sport in History) This is the twenty-fourth book to appear in an ambitious initiative,… Continue reading The International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System
Understanding Sports Culture
Tony Schirato, Understanding Sports Culture, Sage Publications Ltd, 2007. 150 pp. Price not stated. Review by Alan Tomlinson Tony Schirato has written an ambitious book in which we are conducted on a worldwide tour of the history of sport, from the ancient Greeks to the contemporary world of globalized international sport. It is a story… Continue reading Understanding Sports Culture
The Beckham of the Cobbles
Harry Potts – Margaret’s Story, by Margaret Potts and Dave Thomas, Sports Books, Cheltenham, 2006, pp. x + 310, and 64 pages of photographs/documents Review by Alan Tomlinson [This review is a longer version of a review that appears in When Saturday Comes] Harry Potts played for and managed Burnley Football Club in some of… Continue reading The Beckham of the Cobbles
Book Review: Raymond Boyle, Sports Journalism: Context and Issues
Raymond Boyle, Sports Journalism: Context and Issues London: Sage Publications, 2006. 198pp, ISBN 1-4129-0798-5 Raymond Boyle’s study of the practices and conventions of sports journalism is based upon his long-standing grasp of the nature of contemporary sport media, and his balanced concern with both the interpretive scrutiny of journalistic texts and output, and the nature… Continue reading Book Review: Raymond Boyle, Sports Journalism: Context and Issues
Book Review: David Conn, The Football Business: Fair Game in the ‘90s
David Conn, The Football Business: Fair Game in the ‘90s, Edinburgh, Mainstream, 1997; The Beautiful Game? Searching for the Soul of Football, London, Yellow Jersey Press, 2004. David Conn, Britain’s outstanding investigative football journalist, has combined his literary and legal trainings in a distinctive contribution to the investigative journalist’s art. Conn sub-titles his second book… Continue reading Book Review: David Conn, The Football Business: Fair Game in the ‘90s
Book Review: Niall Quinn – The Autobiography
Niall Quinn - The Autobiography (London, Headline Book Publishing, 2002) Niall Quinn played football for Arsenal, Manchester City and Sunderland, a career spent almost wholly in the top flight of the English game, from 1983, when signed by Arsenal and brought over to London from the Republic of Ireland, to 2002, when he retired after… Continue reading Book Review: Niall Quinn – The Autobiography
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