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Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis | Tony Hawks
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It doesn't take much - "£100 is usually sufficient" - to persuade Tony Hawks to take off on notoriously bizarre and hilarious adventures in response to a bet. And so it is, a pointless argument with a friend concludes in a bet - that Tony can't beat all eleven members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis. And with the loser of the bet agreeing to strip naked on Balham High Road and sing the Moldovan national anthem, this one was just too good to resist. The ensuing unpredictable and often hilarious adventure sees him being taken in by Moldovan gypsies and narrowly avoid kidnap in Transnistria. It sees him smuggle his way on to the Moldovan National Team coach in Coleraine and witness (almost) divine intervention in the Holy Land. In this inspiring and exceptionally funny book, Tony Hawks has done it again, proving against all odds that there is no reason in the world why you can't do something a bit stupid and prove all of your doubters wrong. Or at least that was the idea....
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Tony was the guy who went round Ireland with a fridge....

...this time he has a bet that he can beat all of the Moldovan football team at tennis, with the loser having to sing the Moldovan anthem, naked in Balham.

Actually, most of the book is about the culture / way of life in Moldova (although this was back in the year 2000) and this was far more interesting than the actual tennis.

This is book no. 34/50 for #readingeurope2020 #moldova

BarbaraBB How do you know about these books? You are so good at it! Stacked! (edited) 5y
Librarybelle This sounds very interesting! 5y
squirrelbrain Just research on the internet @BarbaraBB ..... and a very useful library for this kind of book! 5y
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