A League of Their Own - The Book of Sporting Trivia: 100% Official
The Ultimate Guide to Sport (without having to get out of your chair), from the writers and philosophers behind the award-winning TV show.We understand. It’s too much to ask. The drive down to the ground, the change into your kit, the running around, the sweat, the tweaks and twinges, the showering with team members. This is not what civilised people do. Real sport is about sitting around, watching, complaining, shouting, winning arguments - the taking part is for professionals. Let us amateurs trade insults and engage in one-upmanship with juicy trivia and uncorroborated gossip. This is our role; this is how we contribute.To do this we need ammunition. We need to know more than anyone else, have the weirdest facts, the most obscure trivia. And this is the book we need, filled with bizarre nuggets that will win friends and influence colleagues, how-to sections that reveal the inner workings, greatest ever XIs featuring greatest ever gingers and greatest every beards.If you love sport and love a good argument, and really can’t be arsed to get out of your chair, you’ve come to the right place.
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Contents
Copyright
Best Ever Cricketers’ Nicknames
How to be a British Tennis Fan
How to be a Professional Golfer
How to be a Football Supporter
How to be a Top Snooker Player
How to be an NBA Basketball Player
Best Ever Jobs Outside of Sport
How to Become a Premiership Rugby Player
How to Become a Professional Wrestler
How to Become a Champion Jockey
How to Become the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
How to Play Like a Premier League Footballer
Best Ever Footballers’ Nicknames
Best Ever Footballers’ Nicknames #2
How to Survive as a County Cricketer
Sports Stars Embarrassing Secrets
Sports Stars Embarrassing Secrets
Glossary
Acknowledgements
About the Book
About the Publisher
‘This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother.’
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TED WALSH, HORSE-RACING COMMENTATOR
Many fans believe their sports stars have superpowers, such are the mesmeric skills they produce under huge pressure. But if they could, what superpower would they possess?
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GARETH BALE
The Welsh flyer has claimed his superpower would be flying. Cue no end of aerodynamic jokes thanks to a 2012 operation to have his ears pinned back when he was playing at Spurs.
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WAYNE ROONEY
England rock Rooney, meanwhile, has revealed that he would like to see into the future. It’s not a massive leap to predict that there will probably be more goals and less hair, Wayne.
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CHRISTINE OHURUOGU
The former Olympic and world 400m champion wants to have the power of invisibility. She claimed, ‘Being invisible would be fun.’ She is rarely seen between major championships already.
Not many sports stars look back and wish they could have done something different. But, if they could, what kind of profession would they have chosen?
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KEVIN PIETERSEN
The former England batsman revealed in a Twitter Q&A that he would have been a pilot.
WAYNE ROONEY
The United striker told the Sun, ‘I always enjoyed RE, so I might have been a priest.’
JERMAIN DEFOE
The former Spurs, Portsmouth and England striker revealed, ‘I think I’d have done something constructive because my mum, Sandra, was strict with me. I used to dance when I was young, street dancing. I’ve been on a float at Notting Hill Carnival!’
‘They’re the second-best team in the world, and there’s no higher praise than that.’
