Almanac WA Branch: Sports books recommendations

 

 

For the third meeting of the WA Footy Almanac, members were asked to bring along a book to recommend. Below are the books and reasons why they appealed.

 

Dennis Gedling – My Favourite Year  edited by Nick Hornby. An eclectic collection of accounts of a favourite football year, taking the reader to a time and place in the writers’ lives.

John Townsend – Commander in Cheat by Rick Reilly. Trump the golfer reveals the way the US President plays – not always ethically – and uses the game to promote his brand.

 

Rick Vredenbregt – The Football War by Xavier Fowler. A well-researched look at the respective leagues and the different paths the VFA and VFL took and why.

 

John Stevenson – The Magic of Spin by Ashley Mallett and TJ Over the Top: Cricket, Prison and Warnie by Ken Piesse. Australia’s greatest spin bowlers examined, and the redemption of Terry Jenner – his life before and after his stint at Her Majesty’s pleasure.

 

Barry Nicholls – Blood on the Tracks by David Tossell. An entertaining and detailed account of the 1974/75 Ashes, full of nightmares for the England side.

 

Kieran Fernandez also attended and contributed to the conversation in a lively manner.

 

 

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