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Average audio length:
53 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
103 episodes
since Oct. 22, 2019
episodic

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Welcome to the new edition of "Talking Sports Books" The final score tells you who won. The contract tells you how the sport actually works.That is the territory Andrew Brandt has spent four decades mapping. He has worked as a player agent, sat inside an NFL front office, helped steer the…

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Ever thought about becoming a referee ? well this book reveals what it s really like from an author who decided the best way to find out what it was really like was to become one which he did,he also got access to elite level referees to talk to them about what life is like not only on the pitch bu…
Great sportswriting does more than explain who won. It asks why the contest mattered, what it cost, and what the people inside it were really chasing. That is the territory Seth Wickersham has made his own. Across more than two decades at ESPN, he has reported from locker rooms, family homes, priva…
Tom Coyne opened an email one day and his life changed when he decided owning a golf course was a good idea. Golf often conjures images of pristine fairways, elite players, and exclusive clubs. Yet, Tom Coyne’s latest book, A Course Called Home, invites readers to explore a different side of the ga…
Beginning this month we will be looking at the greatest ever books on sport and we begin with not only the greatest ever book on boxing but one of the greatest ever books on sport . Norman Mailers "The Fight"
In part 2 of "Killing Maradona" author David Arrowsmith returns to look at the years from joining Napoli to his tragic final days .
David Arrowsmith joins me to talk about his new book Killing Maradona how cocaine the camora and crime corrupted footballs greatest talent and with the World Cup almost here Will Gray has released a book "The World Football Food" book a collection of recipes inspired by the 48 nations tak…
The World Cup is almost upon us so we are looking back at some of the great World Cup stories we have featured since "Talking Sports Books" began and we go back to "Brazil 1982 The Glorious Failure" with author Stu Horsfield they were the team that had it all the team everyone t…
Dave Hannigan joins us today to talk about his new book "We Need To Talk About Roy" None has had more of substance to say for himself. Across nearly four tumultuous decades, from callow teen prospect to grey bearded influencer, Roy Keane has transcended sport, redefined the parameters of …
Welcome back to the new series of "Talking Sports Books" and on this edition we will hear from Tottenham Hotspur's record holding captain Steve Perryman about what happened to him and the club when they were last relegated to what was then division 2. The main book featured this month is …
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