JW90 wrote:Sir Michael Calvin wrote a great book on non-league ping pong players and the terrific work they do and all that.
I'm reading MC's book about the academies at the moment but finding it seriously hard work.
It doesn't seem to have an organised narrative to it.
There's no contextual history of what's gone before nor what recent changes (EPPP) were designed to address etc.
It seems to be an almost random set of chapters where various people have been interviewed and then effectively, a transcript of their responses makes up most of the copy.
I'm not daft (really) but I read a few pages and keep coming back to the question, 'So what is the point being made here'?
I am loath to be harsh but it comes across as a lot of padding with the odd sentence hear and there to try and give it some sort of order.
For example, he has interviewed Nick Levitt, then of the FA and there are pages of his responses. This content should have been summarised and used as a support to points MC makes as part of his larger hypothesis.
Things is, 3-4 chapters in, I have no idea what that hypothesis actually is.