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I was polite. I was respectably attired. Outside the temperature was 90 degrees. But still the barman at the Brabourne Stadium's Wet Wicket Bar would not serve me. Not even a glass of water to wet my wicket.
Aston Villa fan and author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Football Grounds Of Britain, Simon Inglis packs his bags and embarks on a global odyssey in search of the stories behind the world's sport stadia--the legendary, the long-forgotten and the wonderfully obscure. Part-travelogue, part sporting history, part exploratory dissection of his own lifelong obsession with sports grounds,Sightlines chronicles a series of Inglis's real, imagined or remembered stadia experiences.
From Ancient Greece, through India, the Americas and Asia, to the as yet untrammelled venues of the 2000 Sidney Olympics, Inglis is a critical, though clearly devout cleric in the churches of sport. Fortunately for the reader, he never quite loses his sense of astonishment that he is making a living from pursuing what is, by his own admission, a minority interest--and his disarmingly personal and humorous outlook on his adventures makes this lighter reading than you might reasonably expect.
Highlights include his imaginary correspondence with the long-deceased Judge Roy Hofheinz-irresistible force behind the dollar monster that is the Houston Astrodome--and Inglis's observations on the commercial imperative in sport and architecture, as he wanders around this (literally) crumbling temple to modernity and greed, are typically direct and surprising.
The author is almost certainly unique in the depth of his passion for his subject, but never boring. To his credit, this book makes it easy to understand his enthusiasm. --Alex Hankin
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On April 15, 1989, 96 football fans tragically perished following events at Hillsborough. One of the Liverpool supporters to lose their life was 15-year-old Kevin Williams. In the years after that fateful day Anne Williams, Kevin's mother, has fought a long and often despairing battle to uncover the truth about the events of that day and the last hours of her son's life. Her story is inherently a sad and personal one and, as one would expect, much thought is given to the subject of bereavement and reflection on the unjust and nature of the tragedy. Yet Williams also has an individual story to tell and touches all the important points of the controversy which ensued.The blame for the tragedy is not apportioned neatly, but is more than gently pushed in one direction. Williams points to the police force as the culprits. As Lord Justice Taylor's report pointed out, a number of gross errors of judgement were made. Nonetheless, as the evidence that the witnesses subsequently met by Williams show, it is hard to lay the responsibility at the door of members of a single group. One can only receive the impression that there were many who suffered in Sheffield that day from all the different groups involved. It is the testimony of the police officers, ambulance workers and members of the public involved which best portray the true horror of the events. Their sense of helplessness is apparent, as are the effects that day has had on them for the rest of their lives. Of course, for Wiiliams, the story is also a study on the often seemingly unfair nature of the British judicial system. She seems destined never to get the bottom of her struggle. Yet, convinced and apparently armed with evidence that Kevin's life could have been saved, her battle for justice continues. --Trevor Crowe
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