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JOHN WIGHT meets the former British champion whose greatest battles have been fought outside of the ring
European nights, passionate supporters and a new sense of freedom await the Egyptian in Turkey, writes JAMES NALTON
I’m sorry but you won’t find here the just-in-time-for Christmas sports autobiography blockbusters. With just enough manufactured controversy to ensure blanket coverage when they are launched, even a skim read will reveal that, on the contrary, they tell the reader very little they didn’t either know or suspect already.
Floodlights and Touchlines by Rob Steen (Bloomsbury)
As a writer, Rob Steen straddles that frustrating divide between the academic and the journalistic. His new book Floodlights and Touchlines reveals the quality of writing this mix can sometimes produce.
A living history of the relationship between the spectator and his, or increasingly as Rob chronicles, her sport. This is social history of the very highest standard.
ASIF BURHAN explores why England v Argentina remains football’s most politically and culturally charged fixture in his new book
RICHARD SHILLCOCK examines an enjoyable, but philosophically conventional book, and urges Marxists to employ their capacity to embrace the totality in any explanation
JAN WOOLF is beguiled by the tempting notion that Freud psychoanalysed Hitler in a comedy that explores the vulnerability of a damaged individual