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The Big Book of Sports Insults David Milsted

The Big Book of Sports Insults By David Milsted

The Big Book of Sports Insults by David Milsted


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Summary

A hilariously poisonous (and entirely unsporting) collection of 1000 of the very best sports insults. Begins where responsible comment leaves off, tackling serious sporting issues with the finess of Vinnie Jones, the humility of Geoffrey Boycott, the tact of John McEnroe and the sheer sportsmanship of Mike Tyson.

The Big Book of Sports Insults Summary

The Big Book of Sports Insults: 1001 unadmiring quips and quotes by David Milsted

The Big Book of Sports Insults begins where responsible comment leaves off. Modelled on the successful format of such seminal works as E-Tales, The Big Book of National Insults, and The Big Book of Filth, The Big Book of Sports Insults tackles serious sporting issues with the finesse of Vinnie Jones, the humility of Geoffrey Boycott, the tact of John McEnroe, the elegance of Wayne Rooney, and the sheer sportsmanship of Mike Tyson. The Big Book of Sports Insults covers all the key UK, European and Commonwealth sports, including football, rugby, cricket, tennis, golf, athletics and others. There will be some coverage of US sports, but not at the same level as those mentioned above. The ideal corrective to the hysterical hero-worship of sportsmen and women, the Big Book of Sports Insults offers a spluttering Ali to Zola of abusive invective targeted at sporting icons both past and present. If you long - metaphorically speaking - to heap ordure on Beckham or (whisper it but softly...) to rearrange the choirboy features of a certain boy wonder, then the Big Book of Sports Insults could well be the book for you.

About David Milsted

David Milsted has compiled a number of quotations and general reference titles, including The Bluffer's Guide to Whisky (1990), The Chronicle of the 20th Century in Quotations (1996) and The Cassell Dictionary of Regrettable Quotations (1999).

Table of Contents

Football? Bloody hell!; Cricket: baseball on valium; Rugby Union: ruck 'n' roll; Tennis: the dumber the better; Golf: too boring for Canada; Dementia Pugilistica: The Ignoble Art of Boxing; US Sports (American football, baseball, basketball); Other sports (Athletics, Australian Rules football, Cycling, Darts, Formula One, Horse racing, Rowing (mainly the Boat Race), Skiing and Snooker)

Additional information

GOR002178648
9780304366842
0304366846
The Big Book of Sports Insults: 1001 unadmiring quips and quotes by David Milsted
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Orion Publishing Co
20041028
304
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