It's Not The Winning That Counts B

by Max Davidson

Sport has always delivered thrilling victories and gut-wrenching defeats, but moments of good sportsmanship are increasingly rare. It's Not the Winning that Counts celebrates, among others, the football team who kicked their penalties wide because they refused to believe their opponents would foul them, the round-the-world yachtsman who turned back to rescue a rival; the tennis player (Jimmy Connors!) who deliberately double faulted in a Grand Slam final to cancel out line calls that had gone against his opponent.

In the era of the dive, the head butt and the professional foul, Max Davidson takes a roll call of the white knights of sport, from David Beckham to Freddie Flintoff, Jesse Owens to Mohammed Ali.

290 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Michal Skala]

If you are a man/woman who:

loves sports
loves people of sublime character
loves sporting moments in life for generations to remember

then this book is a MUST-READ for you. Enjoy!

In times of "dog eat dog world", "winner takes it all, no matter what circumstances", excessive match fixing, bending the rules, doping scandals, diving, etc., this book will bring into your soul true and pure role models and world of sports will never be the same again for you. You will perceive it differently and adore only those sportsmen who deserve it. Not all winners do. One intuitively feels that it's not the way the things should be. This books will give you plenty of evidence how (sporting) competition should be carried out.

[Alex de G]

Honestly one of the worst books I've ever read. I had the misfortune to purchase this for an inflated price from a bookstore at an airport - wow, was I disappointed. The entire book is so obviously written by a biased English author. This book attempts to funny - and fails, miserably. What a disgrace. Frankly I wanted my money back!!! I only read this tripe because I was stuck in a capsule for a few hours. Pathetic.