If sport is a fast track to a better understanding of the idiosyncrasies of cultural identity, then the extent to which certain sports take pride of place (or fall out of favour) with the public offers its own set of equally fascinating insights into the collective psyche. Julie Henry’s This Sporting Life illuminates one small corner of this crowded, contested field of social history in its affectionate tribute to the phenomenon of ‘pub sports’. Returning to the cult Seventies TV show Indoor League, Henry showcases footage from the series, updating and re-contextualising it for the present; prompting us to reflect how much the popular profile of snooker or darts, for example, has grown in the meantime, and asking us to consider what might have happened if table skittles, say, had attracted an equivalent legion of armchair fans.