Beautiful Games

Rick Walton

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Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
14 March 2024

Sports & outdoor recreation; Sports training & coaching

There are very few original voices. Rick Walton is one. Beautiful Games, despite being something of a sequel to The Dots Will Not Be Joined, stands out, feels unique. Sure, it's about a life in sport and the power of and necessity for active cultures but Walton again takes on the universe. It's charged, unashamedly philosophical: 'authentic, wise, and beautiful'.

Largely autobiograpical - 'to be clear and true' - the book is in three sections. 'Formations' leads off in a mire of weird-but-all-pervasive discrimination, in Northern England: with young lives somehow made blissful by familial love and several hours of footie
*every day
*. The local park becomes not just the place to head cannonballs but the site of something big. Heading a football becomes big.

Then there is crushing, multiple loss, addressed directly, remembered through tears. Then adventure, with sport often the way in, across the hemisphere, from Grimsby to Thunder Bay and back to Wales. The wonders; the 'soccer'; the Italians; the knives. Madness; hilarity; joy. Big, filmic, relatable stories.

Part Two is about who has inspired this life in games - and maybe how. So brilliance and good practice. All Blacks; Clough; Guardiola; Stokes/McCullum and England Women Cricket. Not a comprehensive list but a nod towards genius, behaviours, 'positives'.

Part Three is where the author - an award-winning sports coach and teacher - makes the Case for Sport. Why and how. By looking at nuts and bolts: Sport Development; research; critical insights; urgency. We drive towards the conclusion that we must, for our communities, for our wellbeing, get moving.

By: Rick Walton
Imprint: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 259g
ISBN: 9781803817767
ISBN 10: 1803817763
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 14 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: http://bowlingatvincent.com

Reviews for Beautiful Games

Make this bloke Minister for Sport! - Barney Ronay, Chief Sports Writer, The Guardian. Authentic, wise and beautiful'. George Dobell, Senior Correspondent, The Cricketer Magazine. 'One is left wondering if anyone loves sport - and expresses it so uniquely - as Rick Walton. Moreover he knows the true value of sport (to individuals, communities and society as a whole) and has ideas that all those involved in its provision should contemplate'. Duncan Stone, writer and academic: author of 'Different Class: the untold story of English cricket'.

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Beautiful Games

Rick Walton

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