We Could Be Heroes

Ben: Do you ever worry you''ll die without having left a mark? Tom: What about when you won that 3 a.m. break-dancing battle with the overweight Australian girl? Ben: It''s not enough. I want to go down in history. Tom: You''re called Ben Dirs. You will. Finely-tuned triathlete Tom Fordyce and hopeless smoker Ben Dirs have made a living blogging for the BBC about the triumphs and tribulations of sport at its highest level - but they will never be World Champions themselves. Well, unless they can find some really pointless sporting challenges... From the gripping slow-motion drama of the World Sauna Championships to the Cotswold Olympicks, in which ''competitors, wearing boots, attempt to kick each other,'' We Could Be Heroes is a collection of brilliantly funny gonzo despatches from the frontline of sport. If you can race Ben Fogle up a Yorkshire hillside carrying a sack of coal, or kick the shin out of Rory McGrath, you could be the Champion of the World - and what''s more, you''ll have very, very sore shins, my son.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Dirs, Dirs Ben, Tom Fordyce, Tom Dirs Fordyce, Fordyce Tom
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2014
• EAN: 9781447280958
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-8095-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; General, Humour, Travel writing, Sport: general