You Cannot Be Serious!: The 101 Most Infuriating Things in Sport
By (Author) Matthew Norman
HarperCollins Publishers
Fourth Estate Ltd
13th December 2011
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
796
Paperback
300
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 18mm
213g
This is a book for the sports lover.
In an Orwellian Ministry of Sport, what ultimate terror would await you in Room 101 Would Tim Henman's choking crush the spirit sooner than the glacial detachment of his parents Would the philandering of an Ashley Cole or a Will Carling break you faster than the pipe-smoking prissiness of bowlsman David Bryant or the obese bare-chested Geordie football fan in winter Would it be Neville Neville's unrepentant siring of Phil that cracked you, or the Charidee Fun Runner doing the marathon in the guise of Spiderman The nasally overexcited John Motson or the mellifluously smug Peter Alliss How do you rank the self-pitying lunacy of Arsne Wenger against Alex Ferguson's psychotic ranting Or the shameful innumeracy of referee Graham Poll against umpire Billy Bowden's sinister crook-finger
Counting down the greatest torments in sport from 101 to number one has been a filthy job. But someone had to do it.
Acclaim for Matthew Norman:
That f*cking idiot Alan Sugar
Moron Frank Warren
Im going to do him physical damage David Pleat
When it comes to ridiculing people in the spotlight there is no one sharper or funnier than Matthew Norman - and I should know Peter Mandelson
Matthew Norman is an advertising copywriter. He lives with his wife and daughter in Baltimore. Domestic Violets is his first novel.