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

Johnny Vaughan , Colin Murray , Foreword by Johnny Vaughn , Christian O'Conn , ell
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Book Description

2 Oct 2008
The Sports Fact: the bedrock of any self-respecting fan, the trump card of the pub conversation. We cant quote Shakespeare or remember our loved ones birthdays - superfluous! - but we can list, in alphabetical order, the last three strikers for our teams to have a 20-goal season, together with the names of their wives, children, aunts, favourite TV shows, golf handicap... glory!

And so it is that Fighting Talk, the Saturday morning bastion of world-class punditry, introduces five years of accrued knowledge, one liners, quips, and anecdote all gleaned from, or in the style of, the hugely popular show. Discover Sports Facts as pithy as what kind of chocolate bar Victoria Beckham was munching on as she gave birth to first son Brooklyn, or whether a World Cup victory have any effect on the victorious nations GDP, or even

Also, be challenged by the divisive Defend the Indefensibles in which our crack team of writers support motions as scurrilous as the best thing about the Grand National is seeing a horse gets shot, or that its really true women really cant throw.


Product details

  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (2 Oct 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0340977558
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340977552
  • Product Dimensions: 16.3 x 2.9 x 20.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 368,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Consistently the best weekly sport show on British Radio. (Sony Radio Awards )

About the Author

Fighting Talk is an award-winning topical sports panel show broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live. Its first season aired in October 2003, and was presented by Johnny Vaughan, the second season featured Christian O'Connell, and it is currently hosted by Colin Murray.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By S. Ayub
Format:Hardcover
I'm a big fan of the show, and was hoping that this could be a way to relive all my favourite moments. I think the book starts off well but tails off somewhere during the second half. A little bit like Will Buckley's form when he's on the show so I can't say that I was particularly surprised. I also thought some of the Q&As were lacking, some filled two pages, the other two paragraphs! Nevertheless I think it's a good gift for fans of the show but I was left wanting more.
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5.0 out of 5 stars one of 5 live's best! 17 Dec 2009
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if you like saturday mornings on 5 live, you'll like this book.
"fighting talk" is such a funny, entertaining (and informative!) programme
and the book is a follow up, full of facts and anecdotes from both presenters.
it's not a book for a start to finish read, it's a "dip in and out" one. i'm sure
colin murray (current presenter and co-author) would appreciate my place of
rest for the book at the moment... my bathroom! perfect to read, funny facts and
figures while you have time on your hands!!
summing up.... if you like sport, sporting info./stories/facts for that pub quiz,
you'll love it. well written and put together.Fighting Talk: Flimsy Facts, Sweeping Statements and Inspired Sporting Hunches
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By H. meiehofer VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover
Have to admit I'd never heard of this radio show before I stumbled across this book, but I was intrigued by a quick glance through it.

It is a bit of a curate's egg. It ranges from the exquisitely funny (and really quite surreal) to the extremely mundane and unimaginative. Much of the text does suggest that it would be funnier listening to the material on the show (It's the way I tell 'em as a fairly unwise man used to say).

The humour is a bit laddish but it has the saving grace of lots of self-deprecation and it makes a great emergency car book (For dipping into when you arrive somewhare just a few minutes early.)
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