You’ll likely have read all the ‘best sports books of 2024′ lists by now – so here are a few of the best which have escaped mainstream attention.
Gavin Cooney OKAY, YOU’VE READ all the end-of-year lists suggesting some Christmas shopping in the sports book market, so you’ve heard all about your Johnny Sextons, your Conor Nilands, your Joe Cannings, your Richie Hogans.Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel Fiction has largely ignored the fertile world of sport, or at least any fiction worth reading.
It perfectly captures the dawning for those at the high end of youth sport: how a sport in which you marinate as a youth will look merely like a brief, fleeting attraction later in life. Liverpool fans hoping for a bit of juicy insight into the Klopp years here will likely be disappointed, but what emerges instead is a clear picture into how the elite end of the sport actually works nowadays, happily accompanied by Graham’s wry sense of humour. This is timely, given the new trend of celebrity football executives and the wider interest in data, analytics, and of how clubs are run beyond just the dressing room.
Recent books from Brian Gartland and Roddy Collins have been welcome, and to this we can add Dermot Keely’s memoir, published this year and written with Neil O’Riordan, who is chief sports writer with the Irish Sun. Alan’s mother Olive passed away within a few months of his death. Although she had not been well herself, I think it was too much for her to bear.
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