{"product_id":"9781803131412","title":"Chasing Rainbows : From Innocence to Purgatory and Redemption as a Compulsive Sports Fan by Ben Dobson","description":"\" A very funny book.I laughed out loud. And very relatable too. As this book captures perfectly, sport can be a strange and frustrating mistress\"?Stuart Broad MBEHave you ever wondered if you have your sport \/ life balance out of kilter? Have you forgotten that in life's rich tapestry your team's last minute, VAR assisted defeat at Burnley really matters not a jot and letting this ruin your, and your family's, weekend is a rather charmless and pointless thing to do? Are you concerned that for something which is supposed to be life-enhancing entertainment following sport seems to deliver rather a lot of frustration and disappointment? Or did its disappearance in the maelstrom of a global pandemic have you reassessing and yearning for its return? Chasing Rainbows is a reflection on a life dominated by sport. Revisiting some of the most exciting and, more frequently, soul-destroying moments in English sport in the last half century, it seeks to make sense of the dichotomy that although being an English sports fan can occasionally enhance a life's enjoyment, it primarily delivers nothing but pain, frustration and disappointment, leaving the unaffected baffled as to why we let something we can't control dominate our life's experience. It is a personal story of pathological obsession, but is perhaps yours too? It is?for all those who recognise this condition and have had their mood ruined for a day, a week, a month or a year, to a totally inappropriate extent, by their addiction to their teams or their heroes and by some perceived sporting `disaster'. Chasing Rainbows is a humorous attempt to assess the role sport should, and does, play in our lives.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306815926645,"sku":"9781803131412","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781803131412.jpg?v=1762802029","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781803131412","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}