A Stadium Odyssey Audiobook (Free)

Sightlines (abridged). Written and examine by Simon Inglis. Simon Inglis was a sports fan using a mission. Fed up with becoming labelled an ‘anorak’, yet frequently led astray with the glimpse of a grandstand across a congested city, in the past due 1990s he travelled the globe in search of some deeper indicating behind his fascination. The facts, he asked, about men and neatly-edged turf, and about Irish priests and hurling? Why are two cricket grounds in Mumbai so close collectively? Why do freeloaders revere Chicago’s Wrigleyville, and what can we find out about audience administration and bladder control through the bullfights in Pamplona? Full of insight, wit and doubtful accents, Sightlines conjurEs up spectacles and chaos, colour and intrigue, from a period before the digital age group and corporate and business control forever transformed live sport as well as the stadium experience.