Sports reading

I can take or leave most sports, save cricket, but there are times when you're channel-hopping in the wee small hours when you just can't sleep and don't have the concentration to read a book and, faced with the bleak, hard choice of whatever's on the cheap sports channel or some expensive tat teleshopping you've just got to go with the former. Giles Smith's "Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel" is just the book to reflect this level of engagement. This is a collection of articles about sport written for the Daily Telegraph and the Times from the point of view of the bloke watching it on the telly. Knowledgeable, irreverent and very readable!

Steven


p.s. While I'm at it, I'd also like to put in a plug for "Extreme Ironing." Derring-do, breathtaking scenery and knife-sharp creases. What more could you hope for?