Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel: Sport on Television

by Giles Smith (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.24

  Manchester United scooping the Treble; Schumacher barging Hill off the track; Tyson chewing Holyfield; Argentina beating England on penalties; Germany beating England on penalties; everybody else beating England on penalties, name any one of the defining sporting moments of the last decade, Giles Smith wasn't there. He was at home, watching on the television. like most people. And then he wrote about it. Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel collects the best of Smith's award-winning columns for the Daily Telegraph into a single volume of fearless, hard-hitting and not always entirely serious reports from sport's front-line - the living room.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.24

  Manchester United scooping the treble, Schumacher barging Hill off the track, Tyson chewing Holyfield, England being beaten on penalties by just about everyone, name a defining sporting moment of the last decade and like most people the author wasn't there, he was at home watching it on television; then he wrote about it. This is a collection of pieces about sport taken from the Daily Telegraph and the Times about England's woeful sporting prowess and various personalities, from Evil Knievel to Frank Bruno over the last ten years.