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Sport
Covering everything from Tennis to Cricket, Baseball, Squash and Hockey, 'Sports' is not purely a genre about the people of their sport, their lives and their careers, but of the sports themselves, the beauty of them and the science and knowledge behind them all, not to mention the aray of fiction that include sport within their pages.
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As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football.
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― The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
― The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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Would that cricketers had better lines, or at least that their most famous were not also their tritest or most banal. 'This thing can be done,' said Fred Spofforth in 1882. 'We'll get 'em in singles,' George Hirst did not say twenty years later. 'You guys are history,' growled Devon Malcolm in 1994. 'You've just dropped the World Cup,' Steve Waugh may have crowed in 1999. At least two of these could have been put into the mouth of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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― Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings
― Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings
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