A Game for Hooligans
The History of Rugby Union
$34.65
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2008
Summary
A comprehensive, meticulously researched history of international rugby.
Rugby union has undergone immense change in the past two decades - introducing a World Cup, accepting professionalism and creating a global market in players - yet no authoritative English-language general history of the game has been published in that time. Until now.
A Game for Hooligans brings the game’s colourful story up to date to include the 2007 World Cup. It covers all of the great match…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781845962555 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1845962559 |
| Author: | Huw Richards |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Mainstream Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2008 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
Magnificent
An ambitious project, triumphantly realised * Independent on Sunday *
Crammed with fact and leavened with anecdote … an utterly reliable guide * Daily Telegraph *
Huw Richards has managed to distil the very essence of rugby union history into this one volume … an excellent chronicle * The Independent *
Magnificent * The Times *
Engagingly quirky * Publishing News *
Full of incident, detail and gossip * Daily Telegraph *
Astounding * The Observer *
About The Author
Huw Richards
Huw Richards has been the Financial Times rugby correspondent since 1995. His other books on rugby include Dragons and All Blacks, which was nominated for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
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