Fighting Talk: Flimsy Facts, Sweeping Statements and Inspired Sporting Hunches

by Colin Murray, Johnny Vaughn, Johnny Vaughan (Foreword)

The Sports Fact: the bedrock of any self-respecting fan, the trump card of the pub conversation. We cant quote Shakespeare or remember our loved ones birthdays - superfluous! - but we can list, in alphabetical order, the last three strikers for our teams to have a 20-goal season, together with the names of their wives, children, aunts, favourite TV shows, golf handicap...glory! And so it is that Fighting Talk, the Saturday morning bastion of world-class punditry, introduces five years of accrued knowledge, one liners, quips, and anecdote all gleaned from, or in the style of, the hugely popular show. Discover Sports Facts as pithy as what kind of chocolate bar Victoria Beckham was munching on as she gave birth to first son Brooklyn, or whether a World Cup victory have any effect on the victorious nations GDP, or even Also, be challenged by the divisive Defend the Indefensibles in which our crack team of writers support motions as scurrilous as the best thing about the Grand National is seeing a horse gets shot, or that its really true women really cant throw.

292 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 2, 2008

About the author

Colin Murray was born, raised and educated in London and then at Warwick University, gaining a degree in English and American literature. He worked for a number of years in London publishing before marrying the SF writer Lisa Tuttle and moving up to Scotland. After A Dead Dog is his first novel.

He lives near Tarbert in Argyll.

Reviews

[Pearl]

Unless you are a real sports fan, and by sports I mean soccer, and by soccer, I mean premier league, and unless you are familiar with the show and its format, don't bother.