Another good sports book

I have just finished Chuck Culpepper’s Bloody Confused (Up Pompey in the UK) and recommend it. The last sports book I read was Buzz Bissinger’s 3 Nights in August of 2006. This, too, is a great book, but 2006?! That’s because I’m not a sports fan.

If you define the word, “follow,” very loosely, then I follow only two sports. First, the Formula One racing series based in Paris and watched, as far as I can tell, by absolutely nobody in this country. Second, I follow soccer.

It is this last sport (aka, football) that Culpepper writes about. He turns aside fourteen years of writing about the NFL, MLB, NBA, PGA, etc. in America, and relocates to London for an education in English Premiership football. You can hear his story in his own words here. His loyalties are with Portsmouth F. C., by the way.