Bring Your A Game: The Encyclopaedia of Australian Sports Clichés
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Australians love sport - and we love a sports cliche. No commentary is complete without a player under an 'injury cloud' or a coach with a 'selection headache'; every game has a 'ball magnet' player. Bring Your A Game is a celebration of Aussie sporting language: a true ornament to the game that gives 110 per cent to sports fans.
So the ball's in your court, reader: are you ready to step up and play within yourself in order to appreciate the blend of youth and experience evident in this book by bestselling author and multi award-winning sports writer Anthony Sharwood, who has covered three Olympics, a Super Bowl, and written sport for newspapers, websites, magazines and television?
In Bring Your A Game, Sharwood takes a tilt at explaining the origins and usage of all the essential Australian sporting phrases - ably assisted by Louisa Maggio's hilarious illustrations of your favourite cliches. What does a premiership window look like, anyway? What is the true cost of an injury toll?
But this book is not just about the cliches. It is a long overdue tribute to the glory of Australian sporting lingo, a language within a language. Only an Australian cricket fan knows that if a bowler chucks pies, the cherry will end up in cow corner. Only an Aussie Rules footy fan understands that you can kick a bag but nothing's more exciting than a speccy.
Bring Your A Game is the glut of possession every sports lover needs. If you don't grab a copy for the sports tragic in your life, Christmas will be a dead rubber and you'll be living in a world of pain.
'An entertaining compendium for a country mad on sport and its language' THE AGE
Details
- Publisher
- Hachette Australia
- Author
- Anthony Sharwood
- Format
- Hardcover
- Published
- Aug 5, 2025
- ISBN-13
- 9780733652592
- ISBN-10
- 073365259X
- Pages
- 192
- Carton quantity
- 30 copies
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