A Plague on All Your Sports
eBook - ePub

A Plague on All Your Sports

When Sport and the Pandemic Collided

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eBook - ePub

A Plague on All Your Sports

When Sport and the Pandemic Collided

About this book

A Plague on All Your Sports is the story of what happened when Covid-19 and sport collided, examining the impact of the pandemic through a unique lens.

The book's two authors have each spent many years in sport: Mark Saggers as a radio and TV sports journalist, Bill Ribbans as a doctor and orthopaedic surgeon. Like most people, their professional lives were turned upside down by the pandemic, and both were intimately involved with the endeavours needed to help the sporting phoenix rise from the ashes.

The book analyses the way Covid-19 brought global sport to its knees. It charts sports' response to lockdowns, recovery planning, the obstacles faced and the modifications required to re-emerge.

What was the psychological effect of periods of padlocked gyms, domestic detention and banishment from football terraces? What were the long-term effects on mental health for professional athletes confined to 'bubbles'? Were the early promises of changing sport for the better followed through on?

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. The New Beast from the East
  7. 2. March to Lockdown – UK style
  8. 3. ‘That Was the Week That Was’
  9. 4. Reaction and No Action
  10. 5. The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly
  11. 6. I’m a Sports Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!
  12. 7. On Your Marks … for Project Restart
  13. 8. Football. A Game of Two Halves
  14. 9. Restrictions and Recreation. The Regulations Roller Coaster
  15. 10. Community Spirit
  16. 11. One Skin, One Ball
  17. 12. Let’s Go Racing
  18. 13. Large Hooves, Small Balls and Saddle Sores
  19. 14. A Tale of Two Codes
  20. 15. Going Viral Stateside.
  21. 16. Fall Guys
  22. 17. Christmas Covidiots, Cuddling and Cup Ties
  23. 18. The New Dawn or More of the Dark Ages?
  24. 19. COVID Calamity: Australian Open Tennis 2021
  25. 20. Ashes to Ashes
  26. 21. COVID Calamity: IPL Cricket 2021
  27. 22. Messing About on the River
  28. 23. They Think it’s All Over
  29. 24. Talk(ing)SPORT
  30. 25. A Pride of Lions
  31. 26. Let the Games Begin?
  32. 27. Jabbing and Djoking
  33. 28. COVID Chaos from Cape Town to Cardiff
  34. 29. Living with Omicron
  35. 30. COVID Conversations
  36. 31. Damaging the Crown Jewels
  37. 32. The Long-COVID View
  38. 33. W(h)ither Future Generations
  39. 34. For Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness and in Health
  40. 35. Conflict, Climate and Contagion
  41. 36. A Game Changer?
  42. Acknowledgements
  43. Photos