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This Sporting Life is a 1960 novel by the English writer David Storey.[1] It is set in Northern England and follows a man who tries to make it as a professional rugby league footballer. It was the debut novel of Storey, himself a former player for Leeds.
The book was the basis for Lindsay Anderson's 1963 film This Sporting Life.[2]
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