‘This may conceivably be Barnes’s best work however’ Marcus Berkmann, Daily Email

‘For 30 years I had been the voice of sport at The Times – but that’s enough about me. What counts is normally sport.’

That is an autobiography from which the writer, award-winning article writer Simon Barnes, has been surgically removed. He offers reported on six Globe Mugs, seven Olympic Games, cricket on five continents and more than 20 Wimbledons, watching Diego Maradona, Usain Bolt, Sachin Tendulkar and Roger Federer at their about Epic: In Search of the Soul of Sport and Why It Matters top. On the way he previously soul-revealing interactions with Ayrton Senna and sat on Desert Orchid.

His journalist’s experience provides him perspective, before addictive madness of sport gets control. Epic is a sensational mosaic of some of the most significant sporting moments lately, which build-up to supply the audience with a better idea of what sport is perfect for, what differentiates winners from losers, and reveals how sport teaches us how better to enjoy life.

That is sport unplugged. Speaking for itself. Enabling the reader to understand sport with more clearness and depth than previously.