Some readers night remember a blog which included one spectator's experience of watching a game of hockey at Auchenhowie. The blog has now become a book entitled Still An Ordinary Spectator: Five More Years of Watching Sport, which is a selection of the various pieces of sports writing - blogs, essays and magazine articles - that author John Rigg had published over the last five years. It follows the award-winning An Ordinary Spectator: 50 Years of Watching Sport (2012).
The book’s back-cover blurb states that it...
“… captures the thrill of watching some of the top sportsmen of the modern era… at the top of their game. But it’s not all star athletes… from high school American Football in San Antonio to club cricket in Saltaire, the book reflects on sport’s inherent capacity to act as a barometer of the society around it with a rich combination of contemporary detail and historical digression”.
Still An Ordinary Spectator: Five More Years of Watching Sport is available from SilverWood Books (www.Silverwoodbooks.co.uk, click on “bookshop” and then “sports and leisure”), on Amazon and at good bookshops. Further details, including extracts, can be seen on www.anordinaryspectator.com.