An Ordinary Spectator Returns

<p><em>An Ordinary Spectator Returns: Watching Sport Again</em> presents a collection of John Rigg's wide-ranging sports writing over the last six years. </p><p><br></p><p>The book captures the thrill of watching some of the elite participants of the modern era - Kevin De Bruyne Alastair Cook Sonny Bill Williams et al. But it's not all about the star performers. By describing sporting events within their specific communities - baseball in Toronto shinty in the Scottish Highlands amateur rugby league in Leeds - the author illustrates sport's inherent capacity to act as a barometer of the society around it.</p><p><br></p><p><em>An Ordinary Spectator Returns: Watching Sport Again</em> also includes reflective pieces on sports history as well as significant current sport-related issues. This rich combination of contemporary detail and nostalgic digression - the follow-up to <em>An Ordinary Spectator: 50 Years of Watching Sport</em> (2012) and <em>Still An Ordinary Spectator: Five More Years of Watching Sport</em> (2017) - will be of interest to all those who enjoy watching live sport.</p>