Five for Father’s Day
The Sports Bookshelf offers some timely advice for anyone stuck on what to give the sports-loving man/boy in their life on June 20 with a selection of five sports books new in the shops. Follow the highlighted links to buy. No Holding Back: The Autobiography (Michael Holding; W&N) The former West Indies fast bowler wrote about his career in cricket in his 1993 autobiography Whispering Death. In this new look back, Holding retraces his time on the field but devotes equal priority to his views on many issues in the game from his position as respected media commentator. He is particularly forthright on Sir Allen Stanford’s ill-fated involvement with England and the West Indies, on illegal bowling actions, on the decline of cricket in his native Caribbean and on the consequences of Twenty20’s seemingly unstoppable growth. Why England Lose: And other curious phenomena explained (Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski; Harper Collins) Written by a football writer (Kuper) and an econ