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Rucking and Rolling Peter Bills

Rucking and Rolling By Peter Bills

Rucking and Rolling by Peter Bills


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Summary

Covering the epic rugby contests and featuring the great teams from England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland as well as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and British Lions, this book offers fresh insight into this sport. It captures the highs and lows of the rugby union through an anecdote-packed text by one of the sport's leading authorities.

Rucking and Rolling Summary

Rucking and Rolling: 60 Years of Rugby Union by Peter Bills

Since World War II, the sport of rugby union has burgeoned from a relaxed amateur game - played for fun and friendship - into a multi-million pound business and become one of the world's best followed sports. Rucking & Rolling: 60 Years of Rugby Union is the stunning illustrated history of this transformation, charting the rise of the game through its great games and legendary players. Covering all of the epic rugby contests and featuring all of the great teams from England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland as well as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and British Lions, this beautiful book offers fresh insight into this much loved sport. Presented decade-by-decade and packed with exclusive player interviews and 150 photographs, this stunning illustrated book captures the highs and lows of the rugby union through a stylishly written, anecdote-packed text by one of the sport's leading authorities.

About Peter Bills

A former editor of Rugby World, Peter Bills has worked with some of the greatest names in rugby, including David Campese, Jean-Pierre Rives, Gareth Edwards, Willie John McBride and Dean Richards. He currently reports and comments on rugby for The Independent and his by-line appears regularly in a host of Commonwealth countries, as well as in the Irish Independent and Rugby News magazine.

Table of Contents

1950s: For Fun & Frienship/1960s:The Slumbering Giant/1970s:The Dragon Roars, The Entertainers Delight/ 1980s:Of Men, Money & Politics/1990s: The Coming of the Storm/2000s: The Game Since Professionalism/An Uncertain Future.

Additional information

GOR001304518
9781844428519
1844428516
Rucking and Rolling: 60 Years of Rugby Union by Peter Bills
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Welbeck Publishing Group
20070806
256
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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