Book description
In The Meaning of Sport, award winning sports writer Simon Barnes
gives you his grandstand seat for a journey from the Olympic Games in
Athens to the World Cup in Germany Â- via the Ashes series, the Ryder
Cup, Wimbledon, and more. He examines why sport holds us all in such
thrall, how it uplifts and crushes us Â- and can seem to matter more
than life itself. He challenges us to recognise the intelligence of
Wayne Rooney, the making of Freddie Flintoff, the mythic nature of
Steve Redgrave; and he ponders the ultimate cruelty of the game. This
is the book which asks the questions no one else has thought of, and
finds some surprising answers. Sport has never been written about like
this before
