Get Her off the Pitch: Tales from an Unlikely Sports Writer

Get Her off the Pitch: Tales from an Unlikely Sports Writer by Lynne Truss


ISBN
9780007305759
Published
Released
02 / 08 / 2010
Binding
Paperback
Pages
300
Dimensions
129 x 198 x 19mm

'Years ago, Boris Becker famously said, after losing at Wimbledon, "Nobody died. I just lost a tennis match." And while some people applauded him for his healthy sense of proportion, it didn't ring remotely true. While I was writing about sport, I was caught on the horns of this dilemma for the whole bloody time. I was like the poor confused jurors in ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND who sit in their jury box, writing emphatically on their little slates, both "important" and "not important" because they honestly don't have a clue.'
In this magnificent new book, Lynne Truss charts her often bizarre wanderings during her time as a sports journalist for The Sunday Times. From covering a heavyweight world title fight at Madison Square Garden, to watching England beat Holland from an airship about Wembley (while eating chocolate cake); from her extravagant feelings about Andre Agassi, to covering sports like cricket (where initially she didn't have a clue what was going on), Lynne Truss manages to crystallize exactly the essence of what sport is about, and bring her characteristic wisdom and wry humour to it. The book will be a revelation to sport's foolish doubters, a treat for the many of us who spend too much of our time watching it.
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