Angela Patmore is a former University of East Anglia research fellow and International Fulbright Scholar. Her analysis of competitivepressure, Sportsmen Under Stress (1986), was The Times sports books of the year. A former Guardian columnist on the psychology of sport, she writes extensively for newspapers and magazines and has contributed to many television and radio programmes on stress. She served on the Metropolitan Police External Experts stress advisory group under the chairmanship of Sir John Stevens and works as a psychological skills trainer rehabilitating the long-term unemployed. The Truth About Stress was published in 2005.
Studying for her MA in English and American literature the author was struck by the beauty and concision of a new language – that of pro football. This collection of tribute verses captures the punch and precision of its patois. The poems are "…a raid on the inarticulate – the thoughts...
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