What Sport Tells Us About Life
  • Published: 10 February 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141031859
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $32.99

What Sport Tells Us About Life

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"A book which everyone with a serious interest in sport needs to read" - Simon Barnes, The Times

Why will there never be another Bradman?

How do you win 33 games in a row?

Why did Zidane lose his rag on the world's stage?

Foraying deep into sport's leftfield, Ed smith asks the questions we rarely ask of our teams and players. When is cheating really cheating? Is the free market good for sport? Can talent be a curse? Does luck matter? His answers, often controversial and always thought provoking, will delight anyone who has ever wondered why sport matters.
  • Published: 10 February 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141031859
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $32.99
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Praise for What Sport Tells Us About Life

I could eat this stuff up with a spoon

Nick Hornby

Recommended to anyone interested in sport, history, or simply human nature

Mark Lawson, Front Row

I could eat this stuff up with a spoon

Nick Hornby

A book that everyone with a serious interest in sport needs to read. Don't miss it

Simon Barnes, The Times

A terrific book - Smith has distilled into 200 pages things that took me fifteen years of playing to work out

Mike Atherton

An exceptional book: lucid, thought-provoking, informative and fair. Outstanding

Christopher Martin-Jenkins, The Times