In this follow-up to his award-winning book 'An Ordinary Spectator: 50 Years of Watching Sport', John Rigg presents a collection of his wide-ranging sports writing over the last five years. 'Still An Ordinary Spectator: Five More Years of Watching Sport' captures the thrill of watching some of the best sportsmen of the modern era - Rory McIlroy, Robert Lewandowski, Cameron Smith et al - at the top of their game. But it's not all star athletes; John also introduces the reader to the casual acquaintances he has encountered and the local sporting events he has watched during this most recent stage of his long sports-spectating journey. 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.
In this follow-up to his award-winning book 'An Ordinary Spectator: 50 Years of Watching Sport', John Rigg presents a collection of his wide-ranging sports writing over the last five years. 'Still An Ordinary Spectator: Five More Years of Watching Sport' captures the thrill of watching some of the best sportsmen of the modern era - Rory McIlroy, Robert Lewandowski, Cameron Smith et al - at the top of their game. But it's not all star athletes; John also introduces the reader to the casual acquaintances he has encountered and the local sporting events he has watched during this most recent stage of his long sports-spectating journey. 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.
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20 black and white illustrations
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Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 170 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
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978-1-78132-650-3 (9781781326503)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
John Rigg was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a First Class degree in Economics, later completing a Ph.D. He worked as an economic consultant in London and in the Senior Civil Service in Scotland.John has been researching his family history for nearly 40 years and has published several articles for the Cleveland Family History Society Journal. His non-family history articles include those on economics and statistics for the Scottish Economic Bulletin and Scottish Economic Statistics.John has written extensively on watching sport. 'An Ordinary Spectator: 50 Years of Watching Sport' was published by SilverWood Books in 2012 and 'Still An Ordinary Spectator: Five More Years of Watching Sport' in 2017. The third book in the series - 'An Ordinary Spectator Returns: Watching Sport Again' - was published in 2023. He has also written sport-related articles for the magazines Backpass (football), Backspin and The Nightwatchman (cricket), the Rugby League Journal and Forty-20 (rugby league) and (co-authored with Richard Lewney) the International Review of the Sociology of Sport.John's fiction is written under the name of JR Alexander. The novels - 'Shouting at the Window' (2020) and 'On the Carousel' (2021) - are published by High Ridge Publishing and available on Kindle and other online platforms. 'Long Forgotten Events' will be published in 2025.He is married with two children and lives in Scotland.
