My Autobiography
The Voice of Rugby
$41.57
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2005
Summary
Bill McLaren talks poignantly about his entire life, focusing on his 50 years as chief rugby commentator for the BBC.
Just before the start of the 2002 Wales v Scotland match in Cardiff, the stadium announcer asked people to stand and acknowledge Bill McLaren’s great contribution to the sport. The whole ground rose, leaving McLaren choking back the tears. Then came a voice in his ear - ‘Cue, Bill…’
Coping with his emotions on that day was obviously not straightforward, even fo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553815580 |
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| ISBN-10: | 055381558X |
| Author: | Bill McLaren |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2005 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
The familiar rugby stories are still there but the haunting chapters on the bloodiest of wars, his fight for life against TB, the last-ditch arrival of a miracle cure and the death of his beloved daughter Janie, constitute largely unchartered and painful territory - at least emotionally and in public - for the most private of men – Daily Telegraph
It has plenty about the rugby world and his inherent sense of fairness but, even more pertinently, about the real, sometimes apocalyptic, world – Sunday Herald
He has a remarkable story to tell … it is in turn heart-warming and heart-rending. Bill McLaren was and is a one-off. So is his book – Yorkshire Post
Bill McLaren, the legendary commentator, may have hung up his microphone, but moving words still flow * Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
Bill McLaren
Bill McLaren was born in Hawick in 1923. He was on the verge of a full international cap when he contracted tuberculosis and spent nineteen months in a sanitarium. It was through his junior reporting with the Hawick Express that he launched himself into a career of commentary, making his national debut for BBC Radio in 1953. The switch to television came six years later. Recognition of his services came in November 2001 when he became the first non-international to be inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame.
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