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

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

The sports fact—the bedrock of any self-respecting fan, the trump card of the bar conversation. We can't 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, favorite TV shows, and golf handicap. And so it is that Fighting Talk, the 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 has any effect on the victorious nation's GDP. 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 get shot," or "it's really true women really can't throw."

282 pages, Hardcover

First published October 2, 2008

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.