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There’s a lot of backchat with the trainers: the women are enjoying themselves.

However, what little backchat and abuse I've received over the years comes invariably from parents and coaches - in fact the only red card I've ever given was to a coach.

And if you’re a person like my own mother, who would never permit such backchat in her house, mazel tov.

Written in the most glorious prose, its beat and buoyancy is delivered by Dominic Hoffman, a master at capturing the rhythm of backchat and in rendering Brooklynese, Southern and Spanish speech.

A master at capturing the rhythm of backchat, Hoffman is masterly, especially in giving us, such exchanges as Sportcoat and Hot Sausage arguing South Carolina vs.