- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Yellow Jersey; New edition edition (7 Oct 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224063944
- ISBN-13: 978-0224063944
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 707,559 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A funny, trenchant book that settles many a score."
--"The Economist"
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'Acclaimed novelist Richard Beard turns his writer's eye to the love of his sporting life - revisiting his old haunts in an anecdotal investigation of rubgy's heart and soul (and his own)' - Independent
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An excellent addition to the recent trend of fine sports writing from leading novelists, this book is certainly fit to rank alongside works by AL Kennedy and Joyce Carol Oates. For rugby's new fans, converted by events down under a few years ago, the book clearly and emotionally demonstrates how the hard knocks of the grass roots connect with that Wilkinson kick. This is autobiography as the constant quest that sporting endeavour and betterment demands, occasionally harking back ruefully, but also celebrating the asides and dead ends and sighs of both rugby and life in an almost Jeromesque way. The book looks you in the eye, but amiably. And there is drinking, and there is pining, and there is triumph. At times it is a very cool companion, while at other times you have to glance away from its unflinching honesty. Just like a good rugby match itself. Highly recommended.
1 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This could be described as a self-styled Jack Keraouc meets Stephen Jones type trawl through various Rugby Union clubs the author once play for.
In it he comes to the conclusion that club Rugby Union in the UK was in serious decline (decline yes! serious? not quite) and that it would be possible for a sport to completely die. Why are rugger types obsessed with the death of sports? He makes the hilarious claim that rugby league is indeed as good as dead and about as relevent as the Winchester Wall game.
Definately a work of fiction.
In it he comes to the conclusion that club Rugby Union in the UK was in serious decline (decline yes! serious? not quite) and that it would be possible for a sport to completely die. Why are rugger types obsessed with the death of sports? He makes the hilarious claim that rugby league is indeed as good as dead and about as relevent as the Winchester Wall game.
Definately a work of fiction.
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