by NRB | 24 Jul 2018 | Non-fiction |
Sport can be examined from many angles. The first of these books takes a single sport and the second a single life as its subject. I might be the worst person to review Footballistics since I decry the over-quantification of the game. If I’m allowed to wear...
by NRB | 4 Aug 2015 | Non-fiction |
This is one of the most important books yet written on the evolution of Australian Rules football. Australian Rules football is a simple game that perhaps has been made more complicated than it needs to be. James Coventry’s new history of tactics unravels its...
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