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Hardly a day goes by without someone telling us off about our bodies: they’re too big, too small, in the wrong place at the wrong time, or they just don’t behave in the way we want them to.
How we interact with contemporary sport can be a productive way to explore our relationship with our bodies and how they respond to the demands we make of them. We follow performers and athletes, clubs and countries, the ups and downs of the elite; and we are encouraged – daily – to get off our sofas and run that elusive marathon, to join in and be part of some team or another. We identify, and sometimes, over-identify with our sporting heroes. We become appalled at their behaviour when they fall from grace, but can’t help getting drawn into their stories, whatever age we are, and whatever age they are.
The Confessions series of books explore these matters in, hopefully, an entertaining and thought-provoking manner. Whilst a particular sport might be more prominent, the books themselves are not really about that sport at all. Tennis Player explored dreams and delusions; and Footballer explores passion.
Watching a group of eight year olds play their hearts out on a football pitch one Sunday morning in Liverpool with their grandfathers urging them onto greater achievements, I was struck that the passion for football never leaves us, whether we’re 8 or 78. Even if we’re not fit enough to withstand the rigours of a wet British winter day, we are capable of living out those football fantasies on table football – in this case, the world renowned game, Subbuteo. These two thoughts inspired me to create the book; and the final inspirational push was the unbelievable 7-0 result that Germany achieved in Brazil in 2014. Unbelievable it may have been, but it was certainly real: this is the beauty of sport: the outcomes often trump the predictions.
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