Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Watching with Mother | p. 1 |
'You Should Be Dead' | p. 10 |
The Mouse That Roared | p. 17 |
'The Best Break I Ever Had' | p. 22 |
'My Father Thought I Was Being a Bit Unwise' | p. 28 |
The Battle of Nantes | p. 34 |
Henry Olonga and Those Armbands | p. 39 |
Black Ajax | p. 44 |
The Death Match | p. 50 |
'In My Dream, I Only Came Second' | p. 56 |
The Wee Ice Mon | p. 61 |
Keeping the Show on the Road | p. 66 |
Daring to Bare | p. 71 |
The Guts Not to Fight Back | p. 77 |
The Flying Scotsman | p. 83 |
A Manager Earns His Corn | p. 88 |
'Get Me a Real Australian' | p. 93 |
The Letter That Changed Tennis | p. 98 |
The Ballad of Haydn Bunton | p. 103 |
The One-Armed Bandit | p. 109 |
The Brylcreemed Warrior | p. 115 |
'Just One of Those Things' | p. 121 |
Blind Ambition | p. 125 |
Clearing the Final Fence | p. 131 |
'These Are the Olympics - You Die for Them' | p. 136 |
Send in the Clowns | p. 141 |
Taking the Bullets | p. 146 |
Shuffling into the History Books | p. 151 |
The Man Who Gave the World High-Fives | p. 157 |
Winning the Battle of the Sexes | p. 162 |
'No Matter How I Do, My Mother Will Still Love Me' | p. 169 |
The Cinderella Man | p. 174 |
The Iron Horse | p. 179 |
'Life Goes On' | p. 185 |
Busting a Lung | p. 191 |
'What Happened to the Bull?' | p. 195 |
The Better Part of Valour | p. 199 |
'I Had a Decision to Make' | p. 203 |
Chucking out the Chuckers | p. 209 |
'I Just Tell It Like It Is' | p. 215 |
When Sport Came Second | p. 221 |
'Just Standing on the Track Felt Like Winning' | p. 226 |
Getting Back in the Saddle | p. 231 |
Defying the Odds | p. 236 |
'It Were Nowt More Than a Sore Throit' | p. 241 |
'How Could I Explain Something I Couldn't Understand?' | p. 247 |
A Flipping Marvel | p. 252 |
'I Felt a Hand on My Shoulder' | p. 258 |
The Indomitables | p. 262 |
The Lone Soldier | p. 266 |
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