So Close
Bravest, craziest, unluckiest defeats in Aussie sport
$31.33
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
30 July 2013
Summary
Typically, there’s only one way to win — by being the best. But there are countless ways of having victory snatched from your grasp. Remember Pat Rafter’s 2001 Wimbledon final against the enigmatic Goran Ivanisevic. Think of Allan Border and Jeff Thomson’s titanic last-wicket partnership against England in 1982 that nearly won one of the closest-fought Tests ever.
Look no further than Australian walker Jane Saville, only a few hundred metres from a gold medal at Sydney 2000 when she w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780733630248 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0733630243 |
| Author: | Patrick Mangan |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia |
| Imprint: | Hachette Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 156mm x 234mm |
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Patrick Mangan
Patrick Mangan is a former soccer reporter for The Age and The Sunday Age and author of OFFSIDER: HOW A SCRAWNY POMMY KID LEARNED TO LOVE THE SOCCEROOS, published in 2010 by Melbourne University Press. He has contributed about sport to The Guardian, Inside Sport, the Qantas in-flight magazine and BBC Radio, among other media outlets. He is currently working as a Senior Editor at Random House and lives in Sydney.
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