Review
You don't think of The Daily Telegraph as a funny newspaper, but this selection of short articles goes and throws that little assumption out of the window. Smith is a sports correspondent who sees all the action in the same place as most of the rest of us do - on television. This selection of his writings from 1994-2000 covers the same events the rest of us witnessed - such as Manchester United's treble and Lennox Lewis's world title. Smith saw all the great, the good and the odd of the sports world through the same prism as us. His irritation with, and often affection for, commentators (Murray Walker gets plenty of attention), witless pundits (Chris Eubank takes some beating, which comes as no surprise) and bizarre turns of phrase (Sid Waddell bringing his customary literary surrealism to darts) is something we have all shared. Sadly few of us have put it down this well. Smith is a genuinely funny writer with an engaging style, which leaves you in no doubt that televised sport is an activity that keeps the brain-dead in full employment. But, like the rest of us, he can't help but watch. (Kirkus UK)
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Product Description
Manchester United scooping the Treble; Schumacher barging Hill off the track; Tyson chewing Holyfield; Argentina beating England on penalties; Germany beating England on penalties; everybody else beating England on penalties, name any one of the defining sporting moments of the last decade, Giles Smith wasn't there. He was at home, watching on the television. like most people. And then he wrote about it. "Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel" collects the best of Smith's award-winning columns for the "Daily Telegraph" into a single volume of fearless, hard-hitting and not always entirely serious reports from sport's front-line - the living room.
