Issue 330 | November 8 2013

F o r g e t m e n o tFrank Lampard has

unfinished business with both club and country

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Issue 330, November 8 2013

Radar

05 Hidden treasures Travel back through sporting

history with some rather unusual

artefacts from the sports world

06 Literary leanings The must-read sports books this

winter. Plus: the football boots set

to leave the Brazilians in the shade

08 Dangerous driving? Baby-faced MotoGP rider Marc

Marquez on his championship hopes

o this coming weekFeatures

16 Frank Lampard The Chelsea and England midfielder

on life as an ageing Blue, and why he

wants to go to one more World Cup

25 Sam Warburton The Wales rugby union captain talks

life after the Lions, inevitable injuries

and Wales’ Autumn Internationals

32 Sports writing: a study As the William Hill Sports Book of

the Year announces its shortlist,

we ask the experts what makes

for a compelling sporting read

38 Scott Jurek The ultramarathon runner on

pounding hundreds of miles, puking,

and then pounding some more

Extra Time

52 Kit The goggles that are set to

revolutionise your ski season

54 Entertainment Call of Duty: Ghosts, George Clooney

and Sandra Bullock in space. Plus,

The Hobbit gets even longer

56 Grooming The only places to go if you’re

currently growing a mo

60 Gadgets Tesco enters the tablet fray, and a

genius tiny tracker for lost luggage

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Radar p08 – MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez on his debut season

p06 – Our pick of sporting reads for the winter months ahead

sportingtreasures

wealth of unusual sporting

artefacts are on ‘display’ at

the ‘National Museum of the

History of Sport in Orkney’.

They start with the Big Bang (“the

first sporting contest”), and move

swiftly from the earliest life forms

(including the Shola Amoeba, found

when a lab assistant spilled a bottle of

Newcastle Brown Ale on a copy of Alan

Shearer: My Story So Far) through to

some of the items you can see here.

And they are all featured in

Tutenkhamen’s Tracksuit: The History

of Sport in 100-ish Objects by Tyers

and Beach, who have photographed

each item from the ‘exhibition’ with

illuminating accompanying text. Above

is SLAAM! by Andy Murray – a “talented

but frustrated Scottish painter” for

whom a “meeting with Czech brutalist

I. Lendl and one vibrant exhibition in

New York changed everything”.

AOther important items include

flat-pack furniture instructions

drawn up by the Swedish FA’s young

footballers to fund their academy –

a certain Mr Eriksson’s work in this

area can be seen to the right.

There are also original ‘whiff-waff

paddles’, invented at a dinner party by

an ancestor of our esteemed mayor;

the first ever FA Cup recording by the

Old Etonians back in 1882 (We Are All

Presently Bound for Wembley) and a

more modern invention – the Barmy

Army knife, giving England fans all the

tools they need for a day at the Ashes.

Tutenkhamen’s

Tracksuit by

Tyers and Beach,

Bloomsbury,

£12.99

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Radar

Sportreads

e’re not entirely sure you’re meant to

wear football boots for playing on sand,

although they might be helpful if you want

to be a Lee Cattermole-style beach enforcer.

This shot definitely got us excited about the

World Cup, though. The boots pictured below,

sunning themselves on Rio’s Copacabana beach,

come from the adidas Samba Collection.

A new boot has been released from each of the

company’s four ranges ahead of the competition,

in bright colours that will be the centre of

attention when they’re worn by the likes of

Lionel Messi, Mesut Ozil and this week’s Sport

cover star Frank Lampard.

adidas Samba Collection, including adiZero f50,

Predator, Nitrocharge and 11Pro boots, out now

inter is drawing in, and

there’s no better place to

be than curled up in front of

the fire (okay, in front of the TV) with

a glass of wine (a can of Foster’s)

and a good read (a sports book).

Here, then, is our pick of the tomes

hitting bookstores (Amazon) this month.

The Pain and the Glory£20, HarperCollins

The official Team Sky diary of their

Giro d’Italia campaign and their Tour de

France victory is a lot more insightful

than the ‘Day 12: I’m kind of bored of

climbs now’ that our cynical side

expected. Yellow Jersey winner Chris

Froome has pitched in (Day 19: ‘My

legs hurt’), as has team mastermind

Dave Brailsford, and there’s excellent

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photography from Scott Mitchell. It’s

most revealing on the sheer scale of

the operation involved in getting one

man and his bike across the line first

in what remain two of sport’s most

gruelling challenges.

At Speed: My Life in the Fast LaneMark Cavendish, £20, Ebury Press

It’s been a turbulent few years in the

breathless life of sprint specialist Mark

Cavendish, but he’s paused for long

enough to pen this book – or, at least,

to dictate it to someone. It covers a lot

of ground, starting with the build-up

to his World Championship win in

2011, and covering his move to and

departure from Team Sky, the birth

of his daughter Delilah, and his Red

Jersey win at the Giro d’Italia in 2013.

He might have mellowed a bit since

becoming a father, but as you’d expect

from British cycling’s ‘bad boy’, there’s

quite a lot of swearing.

Pushing the LimitsCasey Stoner, £18.99, Orion Books

Retired double MotoGP world champion

Casey Stoner is still just 28. He’s made

a move into four-wheel racing with V8

Supercars, but this book is very much

looking backwards – very much your

traditional sporting ‘rise to glory’

story. It starts in the Australian

outback, with a young Stoner pulling

donuts in the dust on his parents’

farm, and follows his journey to the top

of his sport. The quote on the book’s

dust jacket is: “If you never give up,

anything can happen.” Which does

seem slightly disingenuous for

someone who retired at 27. Still,

a must-read for MotoGP fans.

Clips of the Week: Best Bloopers from talkSPORT £10, Simon & Schuster

If you’re one of the million or so people

who tune into Paul Hawksbee and Andy

Jacobs’ show on talkSPORT each

weekday afternoon, you’ll love this

selection of the funniest quotes from

Clips of the Week. Every Friday, the

duo highlight some of the slips of the

tongue, interviewing incidents and

other comedy moments from the past

seven days of talkSPORT broadcasts

– mainly involving Alan Brazil. One of

our favourites is his summary of the

2008 Champions League final (including

penalties): “Moscow, crikey, what a

game it was. And to end like that. John,

slipping – left leg went... BANG!”

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MARC MARQUEZMotoGP’s hot younG star

thrilling MotoGP season draws

to a close on Sunday, so we

caught up with Marc Marquez –

the 20-year-old on the verge of lifting the

championship trophy in his debut year.

You’ve had an amazing season, with 15

podiums including six wins. Did you expect

to do this well at the start of the year? 

“Honestly? No. We approached this

season as a learning experience to

prepare ourselves in the best possible

way for next year, but in reality it has

been much better than that. I felt so good

on the bike right from the beginning,

and all the team at Honda have helped

me incredibly.”

You were disqualified from the Australian

Grand Prix in October for failing to pit

within 10 laps under the special race

rules. When did you realise what had

happened?

“When I saw the flag and my number, I

came in immediately – but I wasn’t totally

sure what it was for. After I found out,

obviously I was very upset. But it’s

a mistake that could easily happen.

Sometimes I can make a mistake and

crash out of the race, and sometimes the

team can make a mistake. We must take

the good times and bad times together

– this is what makes a special team.”

Are you feeling the pressure now, with

Jorge Lorenzo just 13 points behind going

into the final race? 

“The pressure is there, but this is my

first season, so there isn’t as much

pressure as there is for Lorenzo. It will

be an exciting race in Valencia.”

What’s it like racing against people such

as Valentino Rossi? 

“At the beginning it was very strange.

I kept thinking to myself: ‘I’m racing with

Valentino!’ But now it feels normal. I feel

like a MotoGP rider, and I feel I belong.”

Do you get on well with the other riders,

or they do resent your instant success? 

“I have a good relationship with most

of them; I don’t feel any resentment.

We may not say much more than ‘hi’

and ‘how are you?’ We’re not friends,

but then we’re also not not-friends!”

What’s your best memory of the season? 

“My victory in Austin [Texas, at the Grand

Prix of the Americas] was really special.”

If you win the championship, how will you

celebrate?

“With my team. But this is too early to

speak about...” [Smiles]

For a full race preview, turn to page 42

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Straight out of Donkey Kong’s mansion, this banana-

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a bunch of those conversations would revolve around where

exactly you’re meant to break from – or what on earth is the

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Negative, boring and not very imaginative. So goes

the captaincy of Alastair Cook, according to

Shane Warne in the Aussie great’s latest tirade

against the man who led England to a comfortable 3-0

Ashes win in the summer just gone.

I do feel a bit for Warne. Had we experienced the

traditional gap between Ashes series, his poorly veiled

attempt at winding up Cook – along with Steven Gerrard,

one of international sport’s rare non-sweaters – wouldn’t

have come across as repetitive and tedious as it has done.

Warne spent a large proportion of his Sky commentary

shifts this summer rambling on about Cook’s leadership of

England in the field, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the

majority of viewers didn’t much give one as long as England

got the job done. Having grown up on a diet of watching our

cricket teams getting routinely battered by Australia, I was

more than happy to feast on Cook’s negative victories.

Along with Brian Lara and Graham Thorpe (come on, you

know you’re with me), Warne comprises the holy trinity of

cricketers I loved watching in my teens. Many speak of him

as the greatest Test captain Australia never had, and they

may be right – but the fact is that Warne has never truly

known the consistently intense pressures of captaincy at

Test level, and certainly not in the Ashes. He can happily sit

behind his microphone, slamming Cook (next week’s cover

star, by the way) as much as he likes. But, as Andrew

Strauss told us only weeks ago, the art of captaincy is

about much more than what actually happens on the field.

Off the field, an England team that has its share of

personalities clearly finds Cook a positive, engaging and

imaginative enough character that, when they do step out

to play for him, they give him their all. That’s why we won

the Ashes this summer, and that’s why I am confident we

will repeat the feat down under this winter. And, through

it all, you can bet that Cook will remain as sweatlessly

composed as ever. That, right there, is captaincy.

Double world and Olympic champion Mo Farah is named

on the three-man shortlist for World Athlete of the Year;

double Olympic champ Laura Trott racks up another two

golds at the Track Cycling World Cup in Manchester; and

Nick Matthew becomes world squash champion for a third

time, coincidentally also in Manchester. Last weekend

was, once again, a very good one for British sport.

No heating up CookHowever hard Shane Warne tries, the England captain is unruffled ahead of the return Ashes

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I can’t actually believe all the coverage Joe Hart’s dropping has garnered. Lucrative shampoo adverts aside, Hart is an

employee with a job description, just like all of us.

Sure, he probably earns more than you or I – and,

due to the exposure football receives, automatically

becomes a quasi-celebrity. But an employee he

remains, and he must do the job for which he is paid.

Whatever your job is, I bet you cock it up every

now and then; I certainly do. In fact, a life conducted

in the world of professional sport has led to me

actually seek criticism in order to optimise my

performance. Having your performance played out

– literally – in front of the colleagues whose respect

means so much, and picked apart frame by frame,

may sound a horrific experience for the average

civvy. For the professional sportsman, however, this

is the norm. Add in the slow-motion pecking you can

receive from studio-based experts, and there is no

place to hide.

Joe Hart played poorly a few times and got

dropped. This is life as a pro, and it is as it should be.

You could argue that men like Lionel Messi and

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advertised shampoo.

Hart is a top player. Soon, he will be back stopping

shots and yelling whatever it is these keepers seem

to yell at their defenders every five minutes. But we

sometimes seem to elevate footballers to such a

height that they become close to invincible.

I recall once sitting in a team review meeting two

days after we had played Northampton. I had been in

good form and played well that day, earning plaudits

from pundits and journalists alike. “Three f***ing

times I’ve told you not to do that, Flats, and you’re

not listening,” said our coach. “So you can listen from

the stands this weekend, see if that helps it sink in.”

This was in front of the whole squad and I was,

at that time, a clear first-choice player. I didn’t

like it, but he was right: my concentration had gone.

Players get it, so Hart is probably wondering what all

the fuss is about, too. This will keep him grounded

and make him stronger, which will make him even

better come World Cup time – when I fully expect

him to be the man for England.

@davidflatman

Cristiano Ronaldo are undroppable, but they achieve

this status by repeatedly delivering. Do you think

Messi will play every week for Barcelona until he is

50? No, at some point he will lose his spark and it will

become clear to those in the know that it will not

return. He will then be replaced. Alan Shearer was

replaced. Jonny Wilkinson was replaced.

So all this talk of Joe Hart’s exclusion from the

Manchester City starting 11 being good for him

because it will remove him from the limelight and give

him a chance to breathe is, for me, a load of tosh.

He was crap and he got dropped. We’ve all been

there. He didn’t need removing from the limelight,

as he seems to love it. All this endorsement work –

all these TV and magazine interviews – is great,

and he indeed comes across as a good bloke.

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“Whatever your job is, I bet you cock it up now and then”

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Frozen in time

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Spot the ballsHe has a reputation for going down easily in the

face of a powerful tackle, but here Cristiano

Ronaldo stays proudly on his feet. Real Madrid’s

star player is showing off his best ‘Blue Steel’

facial expression at the launch of his CR7

underwear collection, seemingly unperturbed

about being surrounded by semi-naked

black-and-white doppelgangers. A range of

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Frank Lampard

Some 48 hours have

passed since Chelsea

suffered a 2-0 reverse

in the northeast.

They have been 48

hours of miserable

contemplation for Frank Lampard, who

– despite the disappointment – does

his best to shrug off the defeat to

Newcastle as a mere ‘blip’ in what has

been an otherwise impressive opening

to the Blues’ 2013-14 campaign.

“I think we have to take it as a blip,

because these things can happen,” he

explains. “But up until then we’d been

on a very good run of wins. It just

shows the strength of the Premier

League, really. Whether you’re playing

a team like Newcastle or a team like

Crystal Palace, where they’re already

fighting for their lives, you have to turn

up with all 11 players at their best. It’s

the competitive nature of the league.

We didn’t perform, so we lost.”

Lampard’s no-nonsense appraisal is

testament to the fact that he’s been

here before. Many times. From the

highs of league titles and Champions

League victories to the lows of

managerial upheavals and international

heartbreak, the Chelsea midfielder is

well versed in what separates the blips

from the more serious warning signs.

His calm demeanour on this Monday

afternoon at Chelsea’s Cobham base

– where a collection of snappers are

lining the perimeter in the hope of

catching an irate Jose Mourinho

kicking David Luiz’s backside – should

settle the nerves of any prematurely

anxious Blues fans.

Mistake Lampard’s serenity for

indifference at your peril, however.

At the age of 35, he is all too aware

that he is entering the final stretch of

a long, trophy-laden career. And, as

Sport quickly discovers, it’s that

knowledge that is making him a more

dangerous and dogged opponent than

he’s ever been.

It was a tough weekend for Chelsea.

Do you find it easier to deal with the

highs and lows of football after so

many years at the top?

“It still bothers me when we lose.

It actually bothers me even more as I

get older. I was very upset on Saturday

night after the loss against Newcastle.

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like that, really – getting upset with a

loss or a personal bad performance.

I suppose, as you get older, there’s

kids and family life to bring you out of it

quicker – but I’m still very intense with

myself. I’m my own biggest critic. So, if

I’ve had a bad game, I analyse it for two

or three days before I have to start

looking ahead to the next game.”

Jose Mourinho isn’t one for hiding his

disappointment. After Saturday’s

defeat, he said: “I made 11 mistakes.

I should have picked another 11.”

Is he the same old Mourinho he was

at his first spell at the club?

“I think his experiences elsewhere

have probably tempered him in

different ways. But, looking at it from

where we are as players, he hasn’t

really changed. He is who he is. He used

to get upset and quite vocal with a

loss, but I always liked that about him

because then you know where you are.

Some managers don’t say anything

after a bad result, and you’re left

wondering what they’re thinking.

He was very to-the-point on Saturday,

and he was right in what he was

saying. But, at the same time, when we

win he’s very emotional with the lads

and celebrating. For me, one of the

beautiful things about him is his

personality – and that hasn’t changed.”

How did you feel when you first found

out he was returning to the club for

The Special One: Part Two?

“It was a bit surreal, because there

was gossip about it for a long time.

But, having been here on the day he

left, you thought with all the water

under the bridge since then… well, it

was very surreal. Personally, I was

delighted because I knew what a great

manager he’d be for the club and for

me. At that later stage of your career,

it’s great to have a manager you trust

and who understands you – and you

understand him. We have a lot of young

players here, too. They need direction,

a good leader and someone to take

them forward. For me, he was the man

that was going to do it, and is doing it.”

Was it comforting to have someone

so familiar return after a season that

held so much managerial unrest?

“Yes, he’s a manager who really has

the club in his heart, and I think the >

Chelsea’s all-time top goalscorer speaks exclusively to Sport about a golden past, a blue present and why he’s happy to finally be able to look ahead to a special future

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fans certainly have him in their

hearts. When he spoke at the press

conference, it was all about stability

and a future. After the interim

manager thing, it was refreshing to

talk about a two or three-year plan

and to be able to look to the future.

That was a good feeling for everyone

at the club – not just for me. After the

instability of the past couple of years,

it’s nice to be a bit more settled.”

There was also a lot of uncertainty

over your own future last season.

Was that a difficult period for you?

“It wasn’t difficult on the pitch because

it spurred me on. Looking back, it was

great for me, really, because I wanted

to prove what I could do. Off the pitch,

it was difficult – I didn’t like the idea of

leaving, I didn’t want to leave and that

was probably the first time I’ve been in

that position. But I think you do have to

come to terms with it as you get a bit

older. You go year by year rather than

with four or five-year contracts, and

thing didn’t bother me because I felt

that, if I went anywhere and played well

enough, then I’d be in contention. And,

if not, then I wouldn’t be – whether I’m

at Chelsea or anywhere in America.”

For England, would a World Cup in

Brazil be the perfect way to call time

on your international career?

“Yeah, it would be. If I can stay involved,

have a good season and go there as an

experienced player, then it will obviously

be my last World Cup. I haven’t had

fantastic memories of previous World

Cups, so I would love to be involved

in such a huge thing for us. It’s the

perfect thing for me to have as a goal

to drive myself towards at the end of

this season. There are a lot of young

players coming through, though, and

still plenty of time before it comes

around. But I’ll be very, very proud if

I can go and make it my last one.”

How does this crop of England players

compare to previous squads you’ve

been a part of?

“It’s very exciting – particularly when

you look at the previous couple of

performances. When you look back

a couple of years, people were

bemoaning the fact that we were

lacking a little bit of youth, exuberance

that’s just the nature of it. I was

prepared to look elsewhere if I had to,

and there were some good options

for me. I wasn’t upset with Chelsea –

I understand them wanting the club to

develop. It was just up to me to prove

that I could stay here and perform.

Because, if you don’t do that, then you

know you deserve to move on. At the

top level, you’re given what you

deserve in football.”

The MLS was one option that

emerged. Bt did you have concerns

that playing in America might affect

your England career?

“It wasn’t a main concern, no. The MLS

would have been a fantastic option for

me if Chelsea had decided: ‘Okay we’re

going to finish it there.’ So I looked at it.

The MLS is a league that’s moving

forward and they’re very good people

out there, I know that for a fact.

Whether I’d ever play out there, I don’t

know now. But certainly, I don’t look

down on the MLS. The international

and speed – people who can do things

attack-wise with the ball. Now you look

at it and all of a sudden you see Andros

Townsend, Daniel Sturridge and

Raheem Sterling coming through,

and see all the options they bring

going forward. That’s what wins

international games, so I’m excited

from that point of view. You still need

balance and a base to the team, though

– some experience. And I think we have

that. In the squad for the previous

round of qualifying games, there were

three players with 100 caps. It’s a

two-way thing because it’s up to the

experienced players to help the

younger group, and up to the young

ones to bring their energy to the mix.”

You were a key part of England’s

‘Golden Generation’. Do you look back

now and scratch your head over why

nothing ever came of it?

“Yes and no. The ‘Golden Generation’

wasn’t ever created by the players

themselves. People proclaimed it as

such – mostly in the press, actually –

but it should never have been named

that until we did win something. You do

look back and wish we’d done better,

but I wouldn’t say we should be

winning things. It’s so difficult.

Major competitions come around >

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“You do look back and wish the ‘Golden Generation’ had done better, but I wouldn’t say we should be winning things. It’s difficult to win something”

Special times: Lampard

and Mourinho celebrate

beating Barcelona in 2005

A goal to aim for: Lampard

steers home the equaliser for

England in the friendly against

Ireland at Wembley in May

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every two years, and you’re up against

the likes of Brazil, Italy, Spain and

Germany – it’s a difficult thing to go

and win something. But yes, I’m

disappointed that we didn’t at some

stage do even what England did in

1990, when they got to the World Cup

semis and the whole nation was behind

them. We never quite got on that sort

of run, which is disappointing.”

Do the pressures that come with

playing for England just wash over

you, having already won 102

international caps?

“I think with experience you probably

can handle games a bit more calmly,

but I certainly get more of a buzz

about playing for England now – the

appreciation level has gone up for me

as I’ve got older. You realise that it’s

not gonna last much longer than next

year or whatever it is, and that you

need to perform to stay up with the

young guns. I was always very proud of

playing for my country, but in the past

18 months I’ve enjoyed it more than I

ever have before.”

The England shirt can bring intense

levels of scrutiny, as we saw last

month, when Jack Wilshere was asked

to comment on foreign-born players

playing for England. Do you see that

as a sort of rite of passage young

players have to go through, or does

the media take unfair advantage of

the less experienced players?

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into this whole storm. I thought, if

you’re going to ask young players to

stand up, then you have to allow them

to express an opinion. We value that.

I know people read the newspapers or

watch interviews and get the hump

with every player saying: ‘Oh, it was

a game of two halves and we’re all

behind the manager,’ and all this sort

of talk. That stuff is very easy to spout,

but he gave his opinion and I thought it

was a fair enough opinion, so I think we

have to appreciate and respect that.”

Have you been through anything like

that in your own career?

“You do speak to the press sometimes

in a difficult moment and you come

away after and think: ‘Did I say

something there that might sound bad,

because I didn’t mean it to be like that?’

Even as an experienced player, I’ve said

many a thing that in the interview

sounded great to me, and then I read

the headline afterwards and thought:

‘That really doesn’t sound that good.’

But I would say the relationship

between England and the press has

been better in the last 18 months.

There were periods before in my

career where we were just clashing –

the press felt they didn’t get enough

access and that the lads didn’t really

appreciate them. And then the lads

thought: ‘We can’t talk to you because

you’re gonna twist things on us.’ But

between the FA and the press, they’ve

worked hard to turn that round. The

feeling around the Poland game and

when we qualified was a really nice,

positive feeling. Hopefully we can take

that into the World Cup.”

You’ve played under a range of quite

different managers for club and

country. What differentiates the best

managers from the not-so-good ones?

“It’s how they deal with players

individually. I don’t think it’s as much

about tactics, although that is

obviously a big element. But I think

at the top level it’s about man-

management, talking to players and

appreciating how a player feels. Then

you get a two-way respect, and I think

that’s what the manager here is very

good at. He has a relationship with

every player, whether they’re playing,

on the bench, in the stands or injured >

“You do speak to the press sometimes in a difficult moment and come away thinking: ‘Did I say something there that might sound bad?’”

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or whatever. That way you get the best

back from players. I really feel like I

know what the manager wants from

me, and that’s a big thing. Sometimes I

think there’s a bit of magic there, too

– Mourinho has it, and people like Sir

Alex Ferguson have it. They look quite

hard-nosed from the outside, but

when you actually go behind the

scenes they work with their players

very well.”

It’s about spending quality time with

the boss, then?

“I think so. It’s not like you’re best

friends – it’s a manager-player

relationship, but I just think it’s about

that understanding of players. Some

managers are very staunch: ‘We must

all be at dinner at this time, and we

must all do this,’ kind of thing. I think

that’s a bit dated, and you have to be

a bit more appreciative that the

modern-day player is not the same as

those from 20 years ago. I don’t know

exactly why that is – maybe it’s just the

whole way football has gone, but I just

think you have to treat each player in

different ways these days.”

Has your own view on the role of

a football manager changed over

the years?

“I do think the idea of the old-fashioned

manager who sits at a desk and

controls the whole club has moved on.

Maybe some managers still want to

keep hold of that, but football clubs

are such huge entities now. Look at

Chelsea, with the academy that

Is it a role you can see yourself

taking on one day?

“Possibly, yeah. I’d like to do my

badges, which I haven’t started yet just

for lack of time. I’ve been in the game a

long time now, so I wouldn’t mind a bit

of a break. But, if I can get my badges

in the next two or three years –

towards the back end of my career –

then it’s certainly something I’ll look at.

When you work with a lot of managers

Lincoln, but someone told me about

this book and I like learning from

other people’s experiences. Before

this one, I read another book someone

recommended to me about a fella who

travels through India. It’s got a funny

name… Shantaram [by Gregory David

Roberts, in which a convicted

Australian bank robber and heroin

addict flees to India] – that was it.”

So you’re not one for reading

sports books?

“It has to be a person who really

interests me. I wrote a book when I

was younger and, to be honest, I kind

of wish I hadn’t done it then, because if

I could do it now it would be a lot better

– because I’m more experienced.

In your career, you kind of go through

phases of how you think about things.

Writing it at 26, you can’t put a

complete perspective on it. So, if I

could have my time again, I’d wait

until the end of my career.”

You could always do another one…?

“I’m not sure, you have to be quite

dramatic – as we’ve seen with recent

serialisations, and sometimes I’m not

sure whether those things should all

be said. But saying that, I might be

sitting here in two weeks punting my

book, so let’s just say I’m not sure!”

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Nickname: Frankie or Lampsy?

“I get very used to ‘Lamps’ in

football – I get called that in the

dressing room all the time. But I

quite like Frankie, really.”

You can have one old Chelsea

player back in the squad – who

are you recalling?

“Easy – Didier Drogba

by a mile. Because of

what he did for us in

every game, but

particularly in big

games and finals.

And also just for

what he was like to

have in the

dressing room – a

huge character

and a great bloke.”

Day off breakfast: a fry-up

or yoghurt and granola?

“Um, it depends. I do like a good

fry-up, but we obviously can’t

have loads of them. But, yeah,

if I have a day off I’d like a nice

fry-up.”

Homeland or Breaking Bad?

“I watch both. I would have said

Homeland before, but I’m going

Breaking Bad after the last series.

It was one of those slow-burners

that in the beginning I wasn’t sure

about. But, when you stick with it,

it’s probably the cleverest series

that I’ve watched. Homeland is

great, but Breaking Bad nicks it.”

Gym session or yoga session?

“Gym. I do yoga, but I’ll go for the

gym ahead of that – I like to sweat

if I train. Yoga can make you

sweat, and I like to balance it by

doing both. But if I had to choose,

I’d go for gym and a good

sweat.”

Sir Alex Ferguson’s

book or Harry

Redknapp’s?

“I’ve got to

say Harry

Redknapp’s

book, haven’t I?

I know that

Harry’s great

with his words,

and he’s got a

lot of fun stories –

but obviously

Ferguson’s book

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appeal too.”

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“In your career, you go through different phases of how you think about things. Writing a book at 26, you can’t put a complete perspective on it”

requires a link with the senior team.

You have to look to the future now,

whereas I think in the old days it was

more like: ‘He looks a good player, we’ll

go and put a bid in.’ Now you have to

look at the background of a player and

what they’re like, so you need other

people around you who can do all that.

As a manager, I don’t think you can be

focused here and be scouting all

around the world at the same time. I do

like having a manager who has a very

big personality and the power of that,

though. I think you still need that

domineering character to control the

club in a football sense, but there has

to be a bigger team there as well, that

you have to be able to work with.”

you kind of see the good and the bad

– or whatever you think is good and

bad – and it does make you think:

‘Can I test myself and try to do all

those good things?’”

You’ve written a series of children’s

books, but what kind of books do

you enjoy reading when you’re not

writing them?

“I like reading biographical books.

At the minute I’m reading a book on

Abraham Lincoln, which is quite out of

the box for me because I’m not into

American politics. But, as I’m reading

this book, I am getting quite interested

in it, and it’s making me want to read a

bit more on it. I didn’t know much about

Frankie’s Magic Football:

Lampard with one of his

series of books for children

“I’m not antI-EnglIsh lIkE a lot of WElsh fans. I thought England bEatIng nEW zEaland Was grEat for northErn- hEmIsphErE rugby”

Sam Warburton

the past year has been a good one for

Sam Warburton. After helping Wales

to a second successive Six Nations title, the

Cardiff Blues man led the Lions to Australia

and their first series win for 16 years.

Now back from the injury that ruled him out

of the decisive third Lions Test, Warburton’s focus

is on the month ahead, and four tricky southern-

hemisphere match-ups that lie in wait for Wales.

After the Welsh domination of the Lions, though,

the international camp must be a strange place to

be at the moment, with so many faces bringing a

Lions aura with them.

“There hasn’t really been any Lions talk, to be

honest,” Warburton insists when we ask him about

the atmosphere in the camp. Not even a cheeky

Lions top being worn by the captain in training?

“Not a chance,” he laughs. “The senior players

would put me back in my place pretty quickly if I

did. No, the focus is genuinely on this autumn and

getting some victories.”

After last year’s return of four defeats from

four, this autumn is not one they will take lightly.

You lost all the autumn games in 2012, then went

on to win the Six Nations. Does that make it hard

to convince the team these games really matter?

“Not at all, because you want to just set yourself

a challenge anyway. We’ve done quite well in the

northern hemisphere in the past few years, but

now it’s time to do it against the southern teams.

That’s what the England team of 2003 did, and

that’s what we’ve got to do now. We’ve got to the

stage where we have to start achieving in these

autumn series and put more emphasis on that.”

Did England’s win over New Zealand last year

make you think it was more possible to beat the

All Blacks, or annoy you that they got there first?

“I’m not anti-English like a lot of Welsh fans are, so

when I heard about it, I genuinely thought it was

great for northern-hemisphere rugby. And the

more that happens, the better. Even Scotland have

got the odd scalp, so the only one who doesn’t

seem to have that is Wales. We’re the ones who

have to put that right this November.”

The World Cup is fast approaching. Does that

make these games all the bigger?

“Obviously they’re important, especially with our

World Cup pool. Every Wales v Australia, Wales v

England and Australia v England game is going to

be under the microscope now. I guess that’s what

pundits will look towards, but the World Cup isn’t

for two years – and that’s a heck of a long time.”

Warren Gatland talked about learning from

England on the Lions tour. Is there anything

that you picked up that will help this team?

“What we learned about other countries, they

learned from us as well, so everyone’s on the same

page, really. I think people could recognise that the

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style of play we played on the Lions was quite

Welsh in the fact that it was very physical. It’s the

sort of game plan that you could figure out, but if

you can’t match a team physically, there’s nothing

you can do about it. If we apply it properly, like the

third Test on that Lions tour demonstrated, then

there’s very little teams can do about it.”

How is your body holding up after the Lions tour?

“Alright, yeah. I got back earlier from injury than I

thought I would, and I’ve done a shift with Cardiff

now. It’s a bit of a blessing, in a way, getting injured,

because having three months off has allowed me to

focus on rehab on my knees, shoulders and stuff.

So I feel like I’m in the best shape I’ve been in since

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Christmas if I’d gone right the way through.”

Are you just getting used to the injuries now?

“Every season I’m going to pick up niggles and knocks

– that’s just the way it is. I just hope I won’t need an

operation for any injuries for a while. I’ve kind of

accepted that, so if I can play maybe 25 games a

year, that’s a good year for me.“

It’s all the jackling…

[Laughs] “Jackling kills. I get loads of players that tell

me they’ve tried jackling and they can’t move their

neck for days. I guess I get used to it – I can’t really

look over my shoulder any more, but that’s okay!”

Are you getting fed up of missing decisive games?

“I do think that. There’s been three of them – the

World Cup [semi final, in which he was sent off], the

Grand Slam decider, where I only played a half, and

then the finale in the Lions [after limping off in the

second Test, pictured right]. It seems unfair, so

it does kind of feel like unfinished business. I was

fortunate enough to play in some big ones – England

v Wales, the two Tests. You can’t have it all, I guess.”

Injury aside, how special was the summer?

“Ah, it was immense. Going on that tour gives you a

taste for something you want to do again and again.

If somebody told me I would have had four Lions

starts at number seven, all as captain and two in

Tests, I would have bitten their hand off. The relief

I had coming back and ticking the box as a series

winner – no one else has that now, apart from those

boys on that tour. All those years of sacrifice and

dedication has paid off, and it’s a great feeling.”

How hard was the final week, knowing you were

ruled out but were still captain of a team with a

chance of winning the series?

“It was really tough. In a way, a little bit of pressure

was taken off myself, so it was a relief. Then, as the

week went on, you’re desperate to do anything to be

back in that environment and playing again. It was

really hard to watch that game – probably one of

the hardest I’ve had to watch, because you can’t

influence it. It was great to be part of the

celebrations after, but it’s always better when you’re

playing, so I’m still disappointed with that. At the

time, I found it really difficult to take any praise.

And, although I still captained for seven of the eight

weeks, it was really hard not to play that last game.”

It must have helped having Paul O’Connell and

Brian O’Driscoll sitting next to you…

“Yeah, that was a weird one, because you’d be

expecting those guys to be in the team – I guess

it just shows the strength in depth that we had.

Paul was one guy I really wanted to pick out in my

book, actually. You get a lot of guys who preserve

themselves when they get over 30, but he’s brilliant.

And I wanted to make a point of that in the book,

because I thought he was outstanding as a player

and leader. It was great to be able to play alongside

him. To have Brian and Paul taking the pressure off

me throughout the tour was brilliant, even if it was

just closing off the session with something to say.

They’ve been through things that I haven’t been

through, so you’ve got to draw on that. As a captain,

I couldn’t ask for a better tour to be involved with.”

Are you finally accepting that you’re a good captain?

“I felt like that before the Lions tour, to be honest.

There was all this speculation, like bookies stopped

taking bets and so on. I’d been reluctant to take the

captaincy a couple of times before, but for the Lions

tour I thought: ‘Give it to me, I’m the guy who should

have it and I can do a good job.’ I do feel like that now.”

That’s quite a big change in your mentality.

“It is, yeah. In three months from that England game

– it’s strange really, but you can change your

perspective at the drop of a hat, I guess. I do feel

a lot more confident after the summer, and definitely

feel ready to lead Wales again.”

What was the best piece of advice you were

given as captain of the Lions?

“There was quite a lot, but [Lions tour manager] Andy

Irvine said the one thing that really stuck with me.

He was telling me that if I didn’t take the captaincy

when Warren rang, he would have come down to my

house and strangled me until I took it. It was nice to

know that they were that keen for me to be captain, >

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were great at not giving me too much responsibility,

which meant I could still be selfish. That’s the best

advice you get, really: to still be selfish with your

performance. As captain, that’s the number-one

priority – I respect a captain who plays well week

in, week out, as opposed to somebody who talks

the talk but plays like rubbish. You’ve got to

prioritise performance. And, sometimes, despite

the fact you’re captain of a team, you have to be

selfish to do that. That’s the best advice I could

give to anybody, and the best that I received.”

What is the main thing the Lions tour has changed

about you?

“I feel the same. I’m a bit more tanned! My hunger

to achieve things is still the same, but I guess you

naturally have more confidence in yourself. It’s

more about having experiences to draw on. I feel

a lot more calm and measured on the pitch when it

comes to figuring things out, making decisions and

dictating play. I feel a lot more confident in my

ability, and hopefully that rubs off on the guys.

I see Leigh [Halfpenny] or Alex [Cuthbert] in the

changing room and it does make me feel more

confident, because I know they’re top-quality

players who performed on a Lions tour – hopefully

people see me and think the same now.”

You’ve said before you see your future in Cardiff.

Is that still true?

“Yup, I still feel exactly the same. The best thing for

me would be to stay here. I’m still awaiting

contract offers, there’s a lot of stuff to figure out

– but I’m still in the same frame of mind. I would

absolutely love to stay here at Cardiff. We’ve got

success at national level, and hopefully that will

outweigh the temptation of going to France for a

lot of players. It was great when Toby [Faletau]

signed a new contract, and hopefully over the next

few months more players will do the same.”

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next year is a big one for english rugby’s women, with the Six nations in February and the world Cup in august. we speak to centre emily Scarratt and captain and fly half katy Mclean before they face France this weekend

France beat you in the Six Nations earlier

this year [McLean, right, was a half-time

substitute]. Are you looking for revenge

at the Twickenham Stoop this weekend?

Katy McLean: “It’s not really about revenge,

it’s about building now, looking forward.

It’s all about performance and making sure

we’re building on things that we’ve learned.”

Is it important to lay down a marker, with

the World Cup in France in 2014?

Emily Scarratt: “It’s important to show

where we’re at, at the moment, coming out

of the back of not one of the best seasons

England has ever had. We know what it was

like to have a home World Cup from three

years ago. It’s a very special thing, and it

certainly raises your game. We’re not going

to underestimate them, but certainly they’re

going to be as big a task as ever.”

You have Samoa, Spain and Canada in your

World Cup group. Which teams do you think

will be in the mix to win it?

KM: “I don’t think you can write anybody off,

really. It’s going to be massive for France –

they’re such a big side anyway. And, with

their home fans behind them, that will make

a massive difference. You’ve obviously got to

look at the Kiwis – you don’t win that many

World Cups [the past four in a row] all over

the globe unless you have something special.

The Canadians and Americans [will be a

threat] as well – their sevens teams are

full-time. If those girls transfer to their 15s

programme, that will be a massive boost.”

There’s also the Six Nations, in which you’ll

presumably be looking to improve after a

difficult year, when England finished third.

KM: “Definitely. There were a lot of factors

linked into the Six Nations this year, but it’s

such a major tournament for us. It’s probably

one of the best tournaments in the world.

A lot of teams will be using it as a marker to

see where they are ahead of the World Cup.”

Flanker Maggie Alphonsi returns after 18

months out injured. How big a boost is that?

ES: “Massive – you can’t underestimate her.”

KM: “You’d rather have her on your team,

wouldn’t you?”

ES: “She has a fear factor about her – you

wouldn’t want to play against her. And, yeah,

she’ll be great to have back in the squad.”

Who else should we look out for on Saturday?

KM: “I’d have said Emily Scarratt, if she

wasn’t injured! She has skills, height, she is

fantastic on the ball and a balanced runner.”

ES: “At 10, we’ve got... well, it’s probably a

bit of a struggle [laughing]. I mean, a lot of

players are really looking to step up – we’re

vying for World Cup places, so hopefully we’ll

see a lot of good performances.”

Amit Katwala @amitkatwala

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Sports Writing

“The best sports

books are not about

sport. They are about

life, about people.

And, if you're not

interested in that,

then why bother

reading at all?”As the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary, we look back at the modern explosion of sports writing and ask what makes for a good sporting read

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Later this month, at a glitzy evening

reception at the Hospital Club in

central London, the winner of the

2013 William Hill Sports Book of the

Year award will be announced. It will be the

25th such announcement of the award, and

represents its maturing into a well-established

adulthood that few would have thought likely

upon its foundation back in 1989, when Dan

Topolski and Patrick Robinson received low-key

acclaim and a modest prize for True Blue: The

Oxford Boat Race Mutiny.

“The first winner only got a cheque for £1,000,”

recalls John Gaustad, the New Zealander who

co-founded the award – and the man

responsible for the quote you see to your left.

“There were cynical people about – and, if I’m

being totally honest, I may well have been one of

them – who thought William Hill would play it

for about three or four years, try and get some

good publicity out of it, and then bugger off.

But there has never been a flicker of doubt on

their part, and the growth and impact of the

award has just got bigger and bigger.”

The growth of which Gaustad speaks has

gone hand in hand with the development of

sports writing as its own separate genre – a

relatively recent phenomenon that belies some

of the iconic works that went before it. Boxing

fans speak in hushed and reverent tones of The

Fight (1975), Norman Mailer’s feted recollection

of the 1974 bout between Muhammad Ali and

George Foreman in Zaire, more commonly

known as the Rumble in the Jungle. Any fan

of American sports will have read Paper Lion

(1966), George Plimpton’s renowned tale of

his experiment serving as the third-string

quarterback at a Detroit Lions training camp.

Closer to home, few would dispute that Hunter

Davies’ behind-the-scenes depiction of

Tottenham Hotspur, The Glory Game (1972),

is one of the great football reads.

Crucially, however, all three of the

aforementioned titles came from the pen

of already established and respected literary

figures; they were standalone works that fell not

into the genre of sports writing, but into the

individual canons of the culturally appreciated

authors who produced them.

“It’s hard to remember just how bad things

were then,” says Gaustad, who first came to

England in 1974, and noticed how little

prominence was given to sports titles while

working in Heffers, the university bookshop in

Cambridge, some time later. “At the front of the

store, in not such a gracious area, they had what

they called the ‘general’ department – it

included subjects such as cookery, sport and art,

which they didn’t handle at all in an academic

way. I had been trying to get hold of a couple of

books that had come out about the All Blacks in

New Zealand, but Heffers had obviously never

heard of them and never even considered

trying to get hold of them. That was when I

really began thinking quite seriously about

“Typically, there would be a few rather uncared for and unkempt books in a tiny section right down the back, in a kind of dark alley”

starting my own business – one that sold only

sports books.”

A dark alleySuch was the acorn that grew into the oak tree

of Sportspages, the cult bookstore that Gaustad

opened on London’s Charing Cross Road in 1985.

“I did a huge amount of research before

opening the store, looking at how other book

shops handled sport,” he recalls now. “Typically,

there would be a few rather uncared for and

unkempt books in a tiny section right down the

back, in a kind of dark alley. If you stood around

for long enough, you would see the staff had

zero interest in the books, and zero interest in

the customers who came to ask about them.

“It was that kind of thing that really fired me

up. If I could set up a shop to act as a haven for

people who wanted to know about sports books,

then maybe they would love it. I have always

said that you don’t have to be thick to like sport,

which I believe a lot of English people felt at the

time – and, importantly, sports books can be as

good as any books. I wanted to give them the

kind of position I believed they should have.” k

Blazing a trail:

The Fight author

Norman Mailer

(above), and Hunter

Davies (left), who

wrote The Glory

Game, penned the

blueprints for

sports writing as

a separate genre

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Sports Writing

Thus did sports writing move from the dark

alley of obscurity into a modern enlightenment

– but Gaustad is quick to point out the

sociological changes, specifically within

football, that helped it on its way.

“There had been a gradual change in football,

from the days of the hooligan – which were

certainly still going when we opened the shop in

1985 – to the rise of the fanzine, which began

with the launch of When Saturday Comes in

1986,” he says. “Suddenly, the football fans who

didn’t want to fight, who didn’t want to be racist,

had a forum in which they could say what they

thought – and we discovered how many of them

there really were. In that specific context,

fanzines only lasted somewhere between five

and 10 years – but their impact was gigantic.”

Breaking new groundIf the 1980s gave sports writing an environment

in which it could be appreciated – and an award

to grant it greater publicity – then the 1990s

created a milieu in which it could truly flourish.

The gentrification of football continued apace

with the advent of the Premier League (and

Sky’s hugely influential coverage of it), and the

release of a book Gaustad believes to be the

most groundbreaking winner in the history

of the William Hill award.

“Fever Pitch was just a groundbreaking book

in every possible way,” he says of Nick Hornby’s

seminal work, which won the award in 1992.

“Now, we look back on it and think what a

wonderful book it was – at the time, though, I

can tell you that the publishers had real doubts

about publishing it. They saw it as an ‘intelligent’

football book, and weren’t sure there was a

market there. Because I had the bookshop, they

sent me the manuscript and asked my advice as

to whether I thought it would sell. I read it, was

absolutely bowled over, and told them to just get

the book out there.

“The special thing about that book was that

there was a universality to it, about how fans felt

about the game and their team. It spoke to

everyone, changed our outlook and, of course,

sold hugely straight away.”

Writer and journalist Alyson Rudd currently

sits on the judging panel for the William Hill

Sports Book of the Year award, and she echoes

Gaustad’s sentiments.

“It altered the way people thought,” she says.

“They came to realise that you didn’t have to

be a winner or even a participant to be able to

write – you could just be someone who was

emotionally involved in sport. That opened up

what was allowed in sports writing.”

Honest and beautifulA glance at the shortlist for this year’s William

Hill award underlines the great variety of

approaches that modern sports writing can take,

from the traditional autobiography (Zlatan

Ibrahimovic) to the revelatory investigation of

David Walsh’s pursuit of Lance Armstrong or

the historical tale of Daniel James Brown’s The

Boys in the Boat: An Epic True-Life Journey to the

Heart of Hitler’s Berlin. The range of style and

subject matter is huge – and matched, says Rudd,

by the breadth of our expectations as readers. k

The bookie prize:

1992 William Hill

Sports Book of the

Year winner Nick

Hornby (top); the rise

of fanzines such as

Burnley’s When the

Ball Moves (above)

and Liverpool’s

Red All Over The

Land (left) were

symptomatic of a

sociological change

in football

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Sports Writing

“My initial reaction as a judge was just to

throw over my shoulder any book that was

poorly written, but then I learned you shouldn’t

make snap judgments about what comprises

good writing,” she says. “For example, if you just

dip into Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s book [held by the

author, above right], you might think it’s not well

written: it’s very colloquial, with exclamation

marks everywhere and odd phrasing. You

certainly wouldn’t call it beautiful writing. But, if

you stop and think about the way the book has

been constructed, then you see it is both honest

and clever. If we only want to read beautiful

writing, then we end up excluding sportspeople

who want to speak in their own voice.

“But then you move on to why The Boys in the

Boat is on the shortlist, and it’s because that is

beautifully written. There can be no compromise

there, because the people involved are dead, so

you need the ability to bring it to life. The vast

majority of people are not going to rush out and

seek information on who won in what boat at

Hitler’s Olympics [Berlin, 1936], but they might

read a great story beautifully told. For that,

though, you need a very good writer.”

Rudd identifies another type of sports book

to have risen to prominence in the modern era

– one that means as much to the sports involved

as it does to the readers.

“I don’t think the Marcus Trescothick book

that won the award in 2008 was particularly well

written, but it made people read about a

sportsperson being honest about their mental

health,” she says. “As a direct result of that, you

got Brian Moore’s book [Beware of the Dog,

which won the award in 2010] and the book

about Robert Enke [the German goalkeeper

who took his own life after suffering with

depression]. I’m not saying we were directly

responsible for that, but it does reflect the way

people in sport are now more open about their

weaknesses. It helped a lot of sportspeople

realise that (a) you can still achieve while you’re

suffering, and (b) you’re not alone in suffering.

That’s why you have to draw back from saying

that every sports book has to be well written.”

Finding a wayWhile that may be true, there is a concern that

the recent proliferation of sports titles may

compromise the overall quality of the wider

genre. For every Marcus Trescothick or Andre

Agassi (above, left), producing raw and honest

reads that compel and intrigue in equal measure,

there is an Ashley Cole wasting paper with reams

of self-indulgent tedium. Gaustad disagrees.

“I think you’re being slightly negative there,”

he says. “I’d actually say that one of the most

dramatic changes to have taken place during the

history of our award is that the overall calibre of

what gets published has improved immensely.

There was much more crap in the early years.

We had 150 entries this year, and we find it

harder to throw books out in the initial sort.

That’s why we ended up with the bizarre number

of 17 on the longlist this year – we couldn’t make

up our minds about which ones to leave out.

“The intriguing thing now is, with changes in

publishing technology, it’s now possible to do

short runs both easily and cheaply, so there is a

profusion of tiny new companies or imprints

willing to do all sorts of adventurous,

extraordinary and imaginative things. That

prompts the bigger boys to stay on their toes.”

His beloved Sportspages finally closed its

doors in 2006, a victim of increased rent prices

and the cheap convenience of the internet, but

Gaustad remains convincingly upbeat on the

future of the genre he helped establish.

“What makes me still feel optimistic is that

there are still people who want to read this stuff,

and people who want to write it,” he says.

“It may be through the internet or through

self-publishing – but the impetus is too strong to

be stopped. One way or another, these people

will find a way to get together.”

Tony Hodson @tonyhodson1

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Scott Jurek’s brow is furrowed. He’s searching

for the answer to one of the toughest

questions an ultramarathoner can face:

how many miles are on your clock? For a man who

has been going beyond the standard 26.2-miler for

almost 20 years, it’s not an easy calculation.

“I tried to figure that out once before,” he says.

“It’s tricky. But if I were to say an average, on the

basis that for ‘x’ number of weeks I run 100 miles

per week and I’ve been racing ultras for almost two

decades, it would probably be somewhere in the

range of 40-50,000 miles.”

If he was a car, you’d be thinking about trading him

in right about now – but Jurek isn’t ready for the

scrapheap yet. The 40-year-old has been a dominant

force in ultra-running (any distance beyond the 26.2

miles of a marathon) since completing his first 50-mile

race in 1994. Despite having run his first marathon

just a month earlier, Jurek crossed the finish line in

second place. His immediate reaction to achieving

such a feat? “I said: ‘Never again.’” Four years later,

however, Minnesota-born Jurek was standing on >

Scott Jurek

Ultramarathon runner Scott Jurek talks to Sport about ‘the toughest footrace on earth’ and what it’s like to spend 24 hours running around in circles

Scott Jurek

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the start line of his first 100-mile race in southern

California. Once again, he finished second. And the

fuse had been well and truly lit.

When Sport meets him in a London hotel ahead of

a talk he’s due to give at a gathering of ultra-running

enthusiasts, Jurek extends a large hand of welcome

our way. At 6ft 2ins, he’s a long, languid figure.

He’s lean, as one would expect from a man used to

racking up hundreds of miles a month. But he is

without the haggard, frail look you might assume

would belong to a man who goes such distances on

a regular basis.

In fact, Jurek is still beaming with the glow of

having achieved his long-held dream of running in the

Lake District – the place he calls “the birthplace of

modern trail running”. He is still a little travel-weary

three days after landing in the UK, but explains:

“I flew in on Friday morning and then jumped straight

on a train to the Lake District to sneak in a run,

before coming back to London at about 1am the

next morning. I only ran 16 miles, but after an

eight-hour flight and then a four-hour train ride,

that was plenty.”

With Jurek’s engine up and running, we steer him

on to the topics that have fuelled him for thousands

of miles so far.

On the Baddest race of all…“At the Badwater Ultramarathon in 2005 [a 135-mile

race through Death Valley, known as ‘the world’s

toughest footrace’], there was a point I had to pull

myself up off the pavement. It was after 70 miles.

It was an hour before midnight, 105 degrees and I

was puking by the roadside with 65 more miles to go.

Those stories you hear about eggs frying in the heat?

They’re true. You can put a skillet [pan] on the

pavement and it will fry an egg. It’s crazy hot, like

walking into a sauna. You just feel yourself breathing

in that air. Most people wear pants [trousers] to

shield themselves from the heat, but when you take

them off it’s like blowing a hairdryer on to your legs.”

On stepping up…“I ran sub-three hours for my first marathon in 1994,

which is a good time for a first one. I have complete

respect for the distance – it was tough but I felt good

the last 15 miles, so it gave me confidence. I assumed

that if I could stay mentally strong, I could do a

50-miler. But there are a lot of unknowns in stepping

up, for sure. You’re going twice the distance, you

don’t know what’s going to happen, and mentally it is

hard to get over that barrier. I always tell people that

you don’t have to train that much harder for an ultra

than for a marathon – it’s really just about flipping

the switch in your brain to say: ‘I can do this; I really

want to finish.’ If you have that conviction and that

desire, you can do it.”

On running round in circles…“The 24-hour race [Jurek ran 165.7 miles in 24 hours

to set a US record in 2010] is incredibly tough

because you’re running around the same one-mile

loop over and over again. Mentally and physically,

you’re at the edge of what you think you can do.

The worst part for me was around hour 18, with six

hours still to go. To get through it I would reward

myself with music at certain points. I’d also focus

on my breath and on technique – anything that kept

me focused for a while, and kept my mind off the

monotony and the discomfort. It’s all about filtering

out the noise. Then, as soon as the sun starts

coming up, you get this sense of rejuvenation.”

On the first 50…“My first 50-mile race hurt like hell. I was dehydrated,

I was cramping and every time I went up a hill in the

last 15 to 20 miles, first my calf would seize up, then

my hamstring, then my quad. The cramping kept

moving around. I didn’t have my nutrition down back

then, either. Energy gels hadn’t come out yet, so the

first year I was just using PowerBars, energy drinks

and having some watermelon or bananas at aid

stations. I didn’t know what I was doing out there

really, but I never let it get in my head that I wasn’t

going to finish – even though at times I was like:

‘I can’t do this. It’s too hard.’”

On eating green…“I wasn’t thinking about performance when I went

plant-based [vegan] in 1999. It was more of a

long-term health decision, but nutrition has played

a huge role in the consistency and longevity of my

results. There are a lot of athletes who compete for

a number of years and don’t pay as much attention

to nutrition – they stay at a high level for a while, but

eventually it hits them. Does being plant-based make

me faster than someone who ate meat on the day we

hit the starting line? Probably not, but in terms of

recovery times and being able to bounce back, I think

it’s a huge factor.”

On the weekly grind…“When I’m in peak training for a 100-miler, I’ll run

around 100 to 120 miles per week. I do a lot of tempo

runs and lactate threshold workouts. If I’m preparing

for a mountainous race, then I’ll do those uphill –

45 minutes at lactate threshold pace, come down,

then go back up. It’s about trying to train yourself to

get used to the muscular fatigue. My long runs will

be anywhere from 20 miles up to as high as 40 miles

sometimes. And some of those will be back to back,

so I’ll do a 25 or 30-mile run one day, then do the

same distance again the next day. That way,

you’re feeling in your legs what it’s like to run on

consecutive days. Most people never do a 60 to

80-mile training run in one go. If you do that, it’ll

take a couple of weeks to recover.”

On winning…“The competition and the winning is what pushes me

to explore my boundaries. If I didn’t have the other

racers or the time goals to break records, I wouldn’t

push myself as hard. The goal of winning and bringing

my body to that edge is an important part of racing

for me, but it’s like that quote: ‘It’s not the

destination, it’s really the journey.’ In an ultra, you

have a lifetime’s worth of experiences over 100 miles.

The competition is just one element to push me a

little further. That’s why some races are held at high

altitude, in extreme heat or in environments where

you have to run in a circle. It’s to test you physically

and mentally to the extreme; to

force you to break down, then build

yourself back up. To survive.”

Sarah Shephard @sarahsportmag

Eat & Run by Scott Jurek is published by

Bloomsbury. Available in paperback now,

priced £8.99

“You don’t have to train that much harder for an ultra than for a marathon – it’s really just about flipping the switch in your brain to say: ‘I can do this; I really want to finish.’ If you have that desire, you can do it”

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SUNDAY MOTOGP | ROUND 18: VALENCIA GRAND PRIX | CIRCUITO DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA | BBC TWO 1.05PM

It has been seven years since the MotoGP title race

went right to the wire – current championship leader

Marc Marquez would have been just 13 as Nicky

Hayden overhauled Valentino Rossi in 2006. Now 20,

the Spanish rider is on the verge of becoming the

sport's youngest world champion in his debut season.

He lost both ground and momentum, however,

after being disqualified in the Australian Grand Prix in

October, when his team failed to call him into the pits

in time for a mandatory bike change. That allowed

defending champion Jorge Lorenzo (leading, above)

to close the gap to 13 points going into the final race.

The task for Marquez (pictured behind Lorenzo)

now is to keep a cool head. He knows that if he

finishes fourth or higher, he'll be world champion

regardless of what Lorenzo can do. The omens are

good for young Marquez – he won the Moto2 event at

last year's season-ending weekend around Valencia's

Ricardo Tormo circuit, while Lorenzo crashed out of

the MotoGP race in tricky conditions.

For the older Spaniard, hope endures in the

swashbuckling style of Marquez – a style that has its

downside. Marquez has crashed 15 times this season

(although only once in a race) and he is just one more

penalty away from being demoted to the back of the

grid. He will have to approach this race weekend with

more caution than normal. If he slips up again,

Lorenzo will be primed to take advantage.

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7 Days

Ten games in, and Arsenal aren’t showing any sign of

slowing down, with an unbeaten run stretching back to

that opening-day defeat to Aston Villa. Last week saw

their toughest fixture of the season so far, at home to

Liverpool. The Gunners passed with flying colours,

with Aaron Ramsey (pictured) still flying (and letting fly).

Their mettle will be tested further this week with a trip to

Old Trafford, where they haven’t won since 2006 – and

where they endured that 8-2 thumping just two years ago.

Manchester United, for all the doom and gloom that

follows David Moyes, have won three of their last four, and

looked a team in sumptuous form as they took Fulham

apart in just over 20 minutes last week. Adnan Januzaj

continues to impress out wide, but it’s the form of Wayne

Rooney that is really helping the Red Devils turn their

season around. Wazza has seven goals and three assists

in United’s past 10 games in all competitions, and is the

man Arsenal need to keep quiet. The Londoners, after all,

were strongly linked with the hair-plugged striker over

the summer, so football law 18.2b dictates that he’s now

more likely to pop in a screamer against them.

Arsenal, though, are creating chances for fun. Olivier

Giroud alone has created 17 goalscoring opportunities in

10 league games – and he, Ramsey and Mesut Ozil have

four assists apiece. The likely return of Mathieu Flamini

adds solidity, making the Gunners a warm order here.

We don’t want to pile the pressure

on Christian Benteke (pictured),

but Villa have gone 375 minutes

without a goal, and the Belgian

appears to be the only man capable

of changing that. Not that the

visitors are faring much better. Last

week’s win over Swansea will put a

spring in Cardiff’s step, but the fact

that Steven Caulker’s second goal of

the season makes him the Bluebirds’

joint-top scorer – with Fraizer

Campbell – is a worrying stat in itself.

Saturday aston villa v cardiff | villa park | 3pm

Norwich are in the bottom three,

having now conceded 14 in their

past four league games (half of

those keeper John Ruddy, pictured,

shipped to Manchester City last

week). A clean sheet against West

Ham is the priority, then, and the

good news is the Hammers started

their previous game without a

striker. At home. To Aston Villa.

‘Respect the point’ is a favoured

motto of Sam Allardyce – Norwich

would take one on Saturday.

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carrow road | sky sports 1 5.30pm

The league leaders go up against the champions at Old Trafford, while the chasing trio look to make up ground with victories on their home patches

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The new man at Palace is in for one

hell of a job. Three points from 10

games tells its own story – heck,

even 11-point Derby (their season’s

total in 2007-08) had six points by

now. Don’t expect Everton to show

too much mercy after last week’s

blank against Tottenham, with

Romelu Lukaku again the danger

man. Palace have conceded four

from set-pieces in their past three

games, so expect Leighton Baines

(pictured) to be at his most effective.

Jose Mourinho said he made “11

mistakes” on the teamsheet after

last week’s 2-0 defeat to Newcastle.

Harsh, yes, but Chelsea looked tired

and devoid of ideas at the Toon, with

the attacking midfielders repeatedly

failing to link up with lone striker

Fernando Torres (who had just 17

touches). West Brom’s defence is

better than Newcastle’s, and

Chelsea need someone to get

among the goals. Step forward,

perhaps, Sport ’s latest cover star…

Saturday southampton v hull | st mary’s | 3pm

If Hugo Lloris’ head is still sore

after last week, the hushed fans at

White Hart Lane will be the perfect

tonic. We jest, but then they’ve not

had that much to shout about,

having scored just once at home in

the league since September (and

that courtesy of another penalty

from Roberto Soldado, pictured).

Tottenham have conceded just five

this season, but Newcastle – fresh

from a 2-0 win over Chelsea –

haven’t drawn a blank since August.

Sunday tottenham v newcastle

white hart lane | sky sports 1 12pm

Seven goals don’t make a season,

but Manchester City will be buzzing

after mauling Norwich last weekend.

Seven different scorers in that game

mean Sunderland have their work

cut out to stop the Citizens, with

Sergio Aguero (pictured) the pick

after claiming three assists and a

goal. There is hope, though: the

Black Cats haven’t lost at home to

City since August 2008, winning the

three meetings on Wearside since

– and all of them have finished 1-0.

Sunday sunderland v man city | stadium of light

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Here’s a stat to cheer up Reds fans

after losing to Arsenal last week:

Fulham have won only once in their

history at Anfield – although that

was as recently as 2012. Glen

Johnson is back after visiting

hospital thanks to a localised

infection, while Philippe Coutinho

should start his first game since

September – his link-up with Luis

Suarez (pictured) and Daniel

Sturridge is likely to be more than

enough to overwhelm the Cottagers.

‘Not conceding to the opposition’s

goalkeeper in the first 20 seconds’

will likely be top of Southampton

stopper Artur Boruc’s wishlist this

week, but – that moment aside – his

side have looked formidable this

season. Mauricio Pochettino has

the Saints playing a style that is

at times easy on the eye, and

Jay Rodriguez and Rickie Lambert

(pictured) have three apiece. Hull

have one victory and two goals from

their past four. Home win, anyone?

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The tale of two out-of-form Cities.

The Swans have just three victories

to their name this season, and two of

those were against the bottom two

sides. Stoke, meanwhile, have not

won a game since August and saw

goalkeeper Asmir Begovic (above,

with Southampton’s Artur Boruc)

become their joint-top scorer last

week. Michel Vorm’s red card against

Cardiff means he misses a game that

could see Stoke leapfrog the Swans –

if Begovic brings his shooting boots.

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Fijian wall blocks

England path

Try time at Twickers

England face Fiji in their final World Cup group game,

for what should be a much sterner test than their

previous outing against Ireland. It promises to be a

physical contest, with the Fijians famed for their big hits.

While England were easing past the Irish last

weekend, the South Sea Islanders faced Australia

in monsoon-like conditions at St Helens – and didn’t

really get into the game, losing 34-2. They’ll be keen

to bounce back, and in Petero Civoniceva they have

an inspirational leader.

The 37-year-old prop had a stellar career in the NRL,

and put in many memorable performances in the green

and gold of Australia over the years. Now playing for the

country of his birth for the first time before retiring, he’ll

be anxious to go out on a high note.

Blockbusting wing Akuila Uate, who claimed a

hat-trick in the victory over Ireland, will be a threat – but

England have their own powerful force on the flank in

Ryan Hall (pictured), who has four tries in two games.

Coach Steve McNamara is likely to recall Sam Burgess

after his one-match suspension, meaning that England

should be at full strength for what could prove a

bruising encounter. Victory would secure second place

in the group behind Australia, however, and a quarter

final against the third-placed team from Group B at

Wigan’s DW Stadium next Saturday.

On Saturday evening, Ireland take on Australia at

Thomond Park in Limerick. The Irish have lost two out of

two, but their only one on home soil will be an emotional

affair in what is likely their tournament farewell.

One win down, two to go. Okay, last week’s victory

over the Aussies was a disjointed and less than glorious

performance, but it’s onwards and upwards for Stuart

Lancaster’s men. Argentina provide the perfect

platform before the All Blacks arrive next week –

the Pumas finished bottom of the recent Rugby

Championship with a points difference of minus 136.

For Chris Robshaw and co, the major focus will be on

more invention in the backs. Last week saw a good

performance at the breakdown and set-piece

dominance – a few lineout blips aside – that will only be

helped by Geoff Parling’s return from injury. So it’s the

men outside Owen Farrell, and the one directly inside

him, that have to up their game. Marland Yarde and

Mike Brown were impressive last week, but the centres

need to create more and get the side across the

gainline. Start well, and England should win this one

comfortably. Then it’s just the Kiwis to worry about.

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MONDAY TENNIS | ATP WORLD TOUR FINALS: FINAL | O2 ARENA, LONDON | SKY SPORTS 3 5.30PM

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Monday finals will always feel a bit odd.

This one will feel even more so if Rafael

Nadal, Novak Djokovic or Roger Federer

do not feature. Since the tournament

moved to London in 2009, at least one

(and often two) of those three men has

reached the final, except for its debut

year in the captial – when Nikolay

Davydenko and Juan Martin del Potro

crashed the party.

The doubles final takes place on the

same day, but with the London bid of

Jamie Murray and his partner John Peers

ending with a first-round loss in Paris this

week – and brother Andy missing out

through injury – there will be no British

representation at the O2 at all this

year. The Union Jack flags will

still be there, though.

They always are.

The worlds end

ThursDAY BOxINg | BRITAIN v USA: PRIzEFIghTER INTERNATIONAL hEAvYWEIghTS | YORK hALL, BEThNAL gREEN | SKY SPORTS 1 8PM

The rotund remnants of the once-brilliant

James ‘Lights Out’ Toney are the big sell in

this Prizefighter tournament that pits Yank

heavyweights against Brits in three-round,

knockout tournament action. Blighty is

represented by, among others, the

controversial Larry Olubamiwo (who

returns from a drugs ban) and Sam Sexton

– a Prizefighter winner back in 2008.

However, even Toney and Olubamiwo’s

ample frames are likely to be overshadowed

by the man in the co-main event. All 6ft 6ins

of Anthony Joshua (pictured) makes his

third appearance, less than six weeks on

from his professional debut.

The plan is to keep the Olympic

gold-medallist active and get him as much

time in the ring as possible. Unfortunately,

the devastating sledgehammer Joshua calls

a right hand is working against this scheme.

Neither of his first two opponents saw the

end of the second round – and York Hall’s

punters are likely to be treated to another

pulverising performance next week.

Heavy hitters

In theory, the Grand Slam of Darts is a tournament trickier to

win than either the BDO or PDC World Championships. Drawing

mainly on players from the latter organisation, it also includes

all four semi-finalists from the last BDO World Championship.

The favourite is a name darting experts among you might

just have heard of: Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor. The most dominant

dartist in history has won four of the six Grand Slam events,

although his old rival Raymond van Barneveld is reigning

champ, with Michael van Gerwen a likely challenger.

From the BDO side of the fence, Scotty ‘2 Hotty’ Waites

(pictured) is a threat. The Yorkshireman won this tournament

in 2010 and finally gained an overdue BDO world title this past

January. But Waites hasn’t been in the best of form since, so

perhaps the man most likely to cause an upset is Belgian Kim

Huybrechts, winner of two minor PDC tournaments in October.

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Last men standingAnother season on the European Tour

comes to a close, then, with the

grandiosely named DP World Tour

Championship in Dubai, where the top

60 players of the year will compete.

The tournament rounds off the

season-long Race to Dubai, and Swede

Henrik Stenson is in pole position to land

the overall prize. He’s won ¤2,203,260

this season, with closest rival Graeme

McDowell (pictured) almost ¤150,000

behind. Still, Stenson can blow hot and

cold (witness last week’s WGC rounds of

74-76-67-65), so his pursuers will enter

the week with some hope – especially

when they take into consideration a

winner’s cheque of $1.33m. Justin Rose,

Ian Poulter and Gonzalo Fernandez-

Castano are among those in the hunt.

The tournament takes place amid the

opulence of the Jumeirah Golf Estates,

with the total prize fund standing

at $8m. The global financial crisis

would appear to be over, then.

Road to PragueWith two games in hand over Wales at the top of a forgiving

group, England’s young prospects are looking good in their bid

to qualify for the 2015 Under-21 European Championships in the

Czech Republic.

They have an opportunity to take even greater control of their

own destiny with a home double-header over the next week and a

half, with next Thursday’s visit of Finland to Milton Keynes followed

by the usual San Marino rout (we hope) the following Tuesday.

The former will provide a sterner test, with Finland holding

England to a 1-1 draw in Tampere in September. West Brom’s Saido

Berahino (pictured) netted the equaliser that night, and the

Burundi-born striker has since swelled his international tally to four.

The Finns’ main threat is likely to be Tim Vayrynen; the

20-year-old scored a hat-trick against Wales earlier in the

competition, and finished the 2013 season as his league’s top

scorer for club side FC Honka. That’s right: Honka.

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On Air – Live at the BBC

Volume 2 The Beatles

Auntie Beeb has raided her

archives to shine a light on

37 previously unreleased

performances as well as in-studio

bantz between the Fab Four

and their BBC radio hosts. Early

Beatles hits, Chuck Berry and

Ray Charles covers, plus jocular

interviews with the boys, make

up this fine new collection.

Out Monday

Creation Stories Alan McGee

Creation Records founder McGee

is best known for discovering

Oasis at a gig with 12 attendees

at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut in

Glasgow. However, as the man

behind the rise of Primal Scream

before that – and his own, drug-

induced near-downfall – he has

more wild tales to share in this

new autobiography than you get

from most rock and roll stars.

Out now

GravityGravity is a sci-fi thriller in which the

enemy isn’t aliens, murderous robots or

stormtroopers, but vast, cold, unforgiving

space itself. It’s a chillingly effective

nemesis, as we learn in a stunning

opening sequence: Dr Stone (Sandra

Bullock) and veteran astronaut Matt

Kowalski (a garrulous George Clooney)

are hit by debris during a spacewalk,

sending the former spinning off into

the ether. This leads to both a battle

for survival and a dropping of audience

jaws in the cinema. Dazzling, dizzying

visuals married to a pared-back plot

make Gravity an epic 3D experience.

Not that it’s a perfect film. Bullock and

Clooney perform well, but their dialogue

occasionally veers into cliche and the

characters are too quickly overwhelmed

by disaster for us to really get to know

them. Yet these are minor quibbles.

Gravity is a masterpiece of old-school

suspense matched with unique, modern

special effects. Just let it pull you in.

Out today

Call of Duty:

Ghosts

The US is in

ruins, and it’s

up to the the

nation’s special

ops ‘Ghosts’ to

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the country in Call Of Duty’s

latest campaign mode. Everyone

knows the single player is a mere

sideshow, though, as pre-teens

across the globe are waiting to

kick your ass and shout “NOOB!”

in your ear. Yup, multiplayer

CoD is back, with new game

modes and arenas awaiting,

not to mention the introduction

of dynamic environments that

alter as you blow the bejesus

out of everything. Our favourite

addition? Get enough kills and

you can bring Riley the guard

dog in from the campaign to help

fight your corner. Sic ’em, boy!

Out now

The Hobbit: An Unexpected

Journey – Extended Edition

If you exited the first Hobbit film

thinking that, at 169 minutes, it’s

just too damn short, this is the

Blu-ray for you. The extended

edition stretches the fantasy to

more than three hours with added

scenes of dwarves hitting on

elves, more Christopher Lee as

Sauron, plus new extras including

a Peter Jackson commentary.

Out Monday

World Press Photo 2013

Southbank Centre

War, wildlife and wonderful

photography are all on show in

this new exhibition showing off

the best recent photojournalism

at London’s Southbank Centre.

From a Free Syrian Army fighter

(above) to snaps of London

2012, there’s rich variety among

the 350 images on display. And,

importantly, entry is totally free.

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A cut above before Christmas

Aveda Men Pop-up Barbershop

Offering grooming services to have you

‘Christmas ready’, Aveda promises “a haven of

gentlemanly calm amid the bustle of Christmas

shopping mayhem”. On the menu: a facial

exfoliation session to hydrate and recharge

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Gillette’s The Best A Mo Can Get Barbers All manner of gentlemanly distractions are

available at Gillette’s pop-up barbers in

Covent Garden, but the main and indeed most

important attraction is that it’s offering free lip

trims and hot towel shaves for all ‘Mo Bros’ –

and all in support of Movember. Open until the

end of the month, it will host comedy nights,

motivational evenings, acoustic performances

and PlayStation games tournaments on the

new PS4. The pop-up will also be the official

clubhouse for Mo Gents United, Gillette’s

‘nationwide team of mo-growing gentlemen’.

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Huawei Ascend P6

The thinnest smartphone in the

land, the P6 measures slightly

more than 6mm from front to

back – almost 2mm thinner than

the iPhone 5S. As well as slightly

more pocket room, it gives you

dual cameras and ‘Magic Touch’

technology, so the screen is still

responsive if you’re wearing

gloves. Handy for the winter.

£25/month | phones4u.co.uk

Tesco Hudl

Well positioned to bring tablet computing

to the masses, the low-priced Hudl from

Tesco comes in a range of colours and runs

the Android operating system. According

to the supermarket giant, the 7-inch

Hudl tablet contains a quad-core 1.5GHz

processor, a 16GB hard drive and enough

battery to let you watch nine hours of video.

Parental controls and free TV and film

streams for Clubcard customers make this

an ideal first tablet for families.

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every liTTle HelPS

eT Gadgets Tesco’s new thoroughbred tablet, plus some pocket-sized gadgets

that will protect your bags, your laptop and your health

Trakdot luggage

This palm-sized device slips into

your luggage and keeps you

updated on where it is, so if it

gets lost while you’re travelling

you’ll have the piece of mind/

small consolation of at least

knowing which city it’s in. It can

also send an alert to your phone

when your bag is approaching

at baggage reclaim.

£38 | trakdot.com

Misfit Shine Activity Monitor

As small and light as a £2 coin,

the Misfit Shine brings a touch

of class to fitness tracking.

It syncs with your phone app

when you place it on the screen

(awesome) and can be worn

round your wrist or clipped to

your clothes. And, best of all,

it runs on a watch battery –

so it never needs charging.

£100 | store.apple.com/uk

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