"I jump into a sand pit for a living"
Everyone a winner
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Jonathan Carswell and Emma Newrick. Milton Keynes: Authentic, 2012. ISBN 978-1-85078-780-8
The book consists on features on 18 sportspeople (or 17 sportspeople and TV sports journalist), typically 7-10 pages each. Each section tells a story of the person’s involvement with sport and how they came to faith or developed in their faith. Some are written totally in the words of the sportsperson, others written in the third person and one (Eric Liddell) in the third person without a single quotation from Liddell.
The range of the subjects goes from 3 who might be called famous, 8 who would be elite to a majority who are simply club level.
The treatment of their careers too is varied and a little bizarre. For example, the Jason Robinson chapter contains very little rugby; the Barrington Williams chapter concentrates on his indoor career with no mention of his participation in the Olympics and Commonwealth Games ; the Debbie Flood chapter describes in graphic detail how she became a rower but dismisses her two Olympic medals in a paragraph each.
Not a great book.