The Book of World Rugby Quotations: Wit, Wisdom and Wisecracks from the Rugby Union Game

by Derek Douglas (Author)

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  Paperback
  1991

  $3.25

  From Queen Elizabeth I to Elizabeth Taylor, and from Mike Burton to Richard Burton, World Rugby Quotations records them all. For the first time all the wit, wisdom and wisecracks of the Rugby Union game are presented in an entertaining form. World Rugby Quotations tells who said what to whom and why players and officials, ancient and modern, have their say on the controversies of the day - from the very first disputed international try in 1871 to the cash and amateurism wrangles of today. Derek Douglas has delved deep into the game's archives to produce a collection of quotations from the players, the coaches, the rule-makers, the administrators, the man on the terraces, the man in the scrum and the man at the bar. His book captures the humour, the pathos, the agony and the ecstasy of the Rugby Union game. With entries, profound and profane, from all over the globe World Rugby Quotations is certain to become an essential addition to the bookshelves of all devotees of the game played by men with funny shaped balls.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1991

  $4.19

  Roger Uttley, Bill Beaumont, Dusty Hare, Will Carling - rugby is such an integral part of English life that the names run off the tongue. The magic of Twickenham itself exerts a magnetism strong enough to pull crowds from all corners of the world. In English Rugby: A Celebration a distinguished group of Rugby Union correspondents from the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph - John Mason, Charles Randall and Graham Tait - joins a host of eminent rugby writers such as Chris Rea and Terry Cooper, to examine all that makes English rugby the passionately followed sport that it is. This illustrated volume covers the English game from its earliest origins through to the 1991 rugby World Cup, taking very much a grassroots approach. John Reason, for instance, talks frankly about the national selectors while Chalkie White speaks out about coaching both at club and national level. With pieces from writers and players from all seven Test match nations and profiles of a special select England XV, chosen from the most outstanding players of the last thirty years - including an article on the best uncapped player of our time - the emphasis is very much on the game as it is played today and on where it is moving to in years to come.