There is so much lightweight froth written about coaching these days that my heart sank when I saw that this book was co-authored with three sports people. Fortunately this is a proper, serious, and useful book on coaching skills that just happens to have some interesting sports anecdotes thrown in (there's not so many that if you don't care about the Springboks or the 1982 Ashes series you can happily ignore them without too much effort).
Hardingham is a serious, but engagingly conversational writer and the book is essential reading if you are relatively new to coaching, and still very helpful for those of us who've been at it since "before it was trendy" as the cover says of Hardingham. Well worth it.