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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
A SUMMER of sport might appear to some as a distraction from real-world issues, yet this misses the point. Sport is a terrain on which the battles over neoliberalism and austerity, race and nationhood, gender, sexuality and plenty more not only take place but for many millions are brought to life with a passion and accessibility traditional politics too often fails to come close to matching.
My top-10 summer sports books each in their different ways illustrate how — and are a great read at the same time.
Cutting through sports-hype takes a combination of a love for and understanding of sport with a critique of all that it threatens to become. Jules Boykoff is a renowned expert at precisely this kind of combination his latest book Activism and the Olympics provides a record of activist opposition to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games and London 2012.
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
ANDREW MURRAY recommends a volume of essays that nail the visionless, racist and neoliberal character of policy under Starmer’s Labour Party
JAMES NALTON takes a look at the German league’s move to grow its audience in Britain, and around the future of football on TV in general