From There to Here

by Brendan Fanning (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $3.50

  This book astonishing in parts, but even if you were a rugby follower in the bad old days of the 1990s you will come away knowing the story in a way that you never knew it before.' - Sunday Times . 'This is the best rugby book I've ever read. Really outstanding.' - George Hook. ' From There to Here provides a wonderful sketch of the trials and tribulations of the last 10 or so years in Irish rugby. Fanning's book gets underneath each story in fantastic detail and provides a fresh perspective on a number of key incidents over the past decade in the Irish game. A superb read, one that will leave you hoping that the author produces another volume in 2015 looking back on the previous 10 years.' - Sunday Tribune . 'This is essential reading for any Irish rugby nut, or aspiring one, as the reporter revisits several issues that plagued the IRFU's lethargic transition from the amateur to professional era.' - The Irish Times .'For rugby lovers this is a must have.' - Irish Farmers Monthly . 'Because the glorious now of Irish rugby has drawn a curtain between us and the half-remembered, chaotic, hapless past, a book such as Brendan Fanning's excellent From There to Here is timely and valuable ...The guiding purpose of Fanning's book is to open that curtain; its triumph is to paint such a vivid and illuminating picture.' - The Sunday Times . 'Brendan Fanning ...paints an absorbing picture of the trials and tribulations of the Irish game as it has stumbled, often awkwardly and at times painfully, out of rugby's backwater into a lofty place in the IRB's top five world rankings ...' - The Belfast Telegraph .