Keeping Your Head in the Game - Untold Stories of the Highs and Lows of a Life in Sport

Drawing on his work with elite athletes, the world''s first sports psychotherapist on what to do when life throws you a curveball

''Cracking tales, a great read'' Nigel Owens MBE, rugby union referee

''Absolutely fascinating. . . a genuine must-read for anyone interested in the human side of sport'' Peter Drury, football commentator

Elite athletes play out their lives in the most public of arenas. Everything they do is analysed in real time and then picked apart in the pub and in the press afterwards. ''Why did they miss that penalty?'', ''What made them fall at the first jump?'', ''That press conference was a bit weird.'' We can all speculate, but what''s really going on?

In Keeping YourHead in the Game we peer into this highly confidential world. We follow the journeys of ten athletes in their therapy sessions with sports psychotherapist Gary Bloom, from a rugby player arrested for a drunken brawl, through a ho