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Beevor.
On a lighter note I can pull out Edmund Hillary and David Niven. Then it’s back to the dark side
with crime: the Krays and the American Mafia.
I was so immersed in sport in my working life that I tended not to read many books about sport. But

there are a few touchstones on the shelves. Reading When Pride Still Mattered, the David Maraniss
biography of Vince Lombardi, the great Green Bay Packers coach, I was thinking: ‘That’s me he’s
writing about, I’m just like Lombardi.’ The obsession. I could identify closely with one of
Lombardi’s greatest sayings: ‘We didn’t lose the game, we just ran out of time.’