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