A Sporting Chance: Australian Sporting Scandals and the Path to Redemption Audiobook (Free)

In Sport, the term ‘great bloke’ doesn’t mean what it says. Like ‘fun operate’, it in fact often means the precise opposite.

Titus O’Reily, the sports activities historian Australia neither needs nor deserves, examines so why our nation’s sportspeople can do terrible stuff yet be so readily forgiven.

In this Great Southern Land, a sportsman could be excused almost any sin if he’s elevated towards the mythical status of being a ‘good bloke’. Therefore, what does it take to earn the title of ‘great bloke’? And can female about A Sporting Opportunity: Australian Wearing Scandals and the road to Redemption sportsmen be good blokes too?

With ridiculous tales from Australia’s chequered sporting history, A Sporting Chance dissects the scandals big and small, the errors manufactured in covering them up and the road athletes tread back to redemption.

In the corrupt cop who gave us the competition that stopped a nation, towards the Australian boxing champion who refused to teach – not forgetting the sandpaper-loving Australian Test cricket team – Titus reveals the main element archetypes in the centre of our greatest sporting scandals.

In his own rambling and sometimes incoherent style he asks the issue: are Australians really that forgiving of their sporting heroes? Or, using the rise of social networking, women’s sport and the drive towards better equality, will be the good blokes of Australia’s sporting landscape getting an endangered species?

‘An indispensable voice for serious supporters, who need to be reminded to take sport just a little less seriously.’ Inside Sport