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Author: Tom Hay
Publisher: Summersdale
Published: 2018-03-08
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1786856069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScrum-down and get stuck into this mini-collection of rugby humour – the very best quips and quotes for lovers of the odd-shaped ball.
Author: Michael Petri
Publisher: R Is for Rugby LLC
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 9780986365300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKR is for Rugby: An Alphabet Book takes readers on a learning adventure through the alphabet to explore this incredible game. Each letter offers an opportunity to discover positions, tactics, and terminology that will make even non-ruggers want to lace up their boots With more than 2.3 million players in over 100 countries across six continents, rugby is one of the most popular sports in the world. It is also the fastest growing team sport for children ages six through twelve in the United States according to the Sports and Fitness Industry Association. Its variant, rugby 7s, is set to make its eagerly awaited debut at the 2016 Olympic Games. R is for Rugby: An Alphabet Book is written by three-time Rugby World Cup veteran and USA National Team player Mike Petri. Mike has over 50 test caps for the USA and has featured for the Newport Gwent Dragons as well as the invitational, prestigious Barbarians squad. Outside of his competitive rugby, he is a high school math and science teacher as well as a varsity rugby coach at Xavier High School in New York City.
Author: Hugh Jassburn
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781800075009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou know a pile of poo when you see one. But what about when the poo is carefully concealed in an everyday scene? Bestselling author Hugh Jassburn has created a selection of entrancing visual puzzles to entertain you while you take a break. From the beach to the street, there's a dump to be discovered on every spread of this hilarious book.
Author: Stewart McKinney
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-01-25
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1907195815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVoices from the Back of the Bus provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at international rugby at the height of a golden period. Recounted with genuine warmth and much humour, over a hundred players recall the scrapes, the games, the laughs, the glory and the gritty reality of the pre-professional game. Packed with true rugby tales from the days when men played purely for the love of the game and of their nation, and multimillion-pound contracts and sponsorship deals were unheard of, this refreshing, revealing and often hilarious collection will inspire sports fans of all generations.
Author: Andrew Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-05-14
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 1442444940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA teen at boarding school grapples with life, love, and rugby in this unforgettable novel that is “alternately hilarious and painful, awkward and enlightening” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids. He’s living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he’s madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy. Ryan Dean manages to survive life’s complications with the help of his sense of humor, rugby buddies, and his penchant for doodling comics. But when the unthinkable happens, he has to figure out how to hold on to what’s important, even when it feels like everything has fallen apart. Filled with hand-drawn infographics and illustrations and told in a pitch-perfect voice, this realistic depiction of a teen’s experience strikes an exceptional balance of hilarious and heartbreaking.
Author: Huw Richards
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-09-30
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1780573286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRugby 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 matches, teams and players but also explores the social, political and economic changes that have affected the course of rugby's development. It is an international history, covering not only Britain and France but also the great rugby powers of the southern hemisphere and other successful rugby nations, including Argentina, Fiji and Japan. Contained within are the answers to many intriguing questions concerning the game, such as why 1895 is the most important date in both rugby-union and rugby-league history and how New Zealand became so good and have remained so good for so long. There is also a wealth of anecdotes, including allegations of devil-worship at a Welsh rugby club and an account of the game's contribution to the Cuban Revolution. This is a must-read for any fan of the oval ball.
Author: John Daniell
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009-04-02
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1407027166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Daniell is a rubgy mercenary. A brutal word for an often brutal game. In 1996, when Rugby Union turned professional, John emigrated to France where he played for a decade in top competitions. His team ricocheted between fear and ecstasy, as they battled to save the club from relegation and their careers from the scrap heap. Now he lifts the lid on the dark world of the journeyman player, where losing a home game is considered a crime, coaches and club owners will do anything to win, and agents ruthlessly manipulate players. His compelling confessions are both shocking and funny, taking you behind the scenes, onto the field and into the very heart of the scrum.
Author: Eamon Evans
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Published: 2021-09-29
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1743587937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith pearls of wisdom and tall tales from some of Australia's well-known rugby league players, Wit and Wisdom of the League is a hilarious insight into the game from players, coaches and commentators past and present. Whether you are an elite athlete, ambitious professional, dedicated parent or hard-working student, all of us are at times challenged by doubts and setbacks. This collection of inspiring and oft times hilarious quotes and tall tales from some of Australia's leading rugby league characters will lighten your mood and give an insight into the lives of people truly challenged by their own thoughts.
Author: John Griffiths
Publisher: Portico
Published: 2016-02-12
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1911042297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRugby fans will delight in this astonishing collection of outlandish stories from the past 150 years of the game. Here you’ll find, among many other curious events, the Irish international who arranged his marriage in order to play against England, the team of top soccer players who beat their rugby counterparts at their own game, the day the entire Wales team was sent off, and when in an astonishing turn of events underdog Japan trimphed and beat South Africa (and who doesn't love an underdog). The tales in this book are bizarre, fascinating, and, most importantly, true. Revised, redesigned and updated for 2016, this book makes the perfect gift for the rugby obsessive in your life. Word count: 45,000
Author: Tony Collins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1136317732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince it’s first publication, Rugby’s Great Split has established itself as a classic in the field of sport history. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, this deeply researched and highly readable book traces the social, cultural and economic divisions that led, in 1895, to schism in the game of rugby and the creation of rugby league, the sport of England’s northern working class. Tony Collins’ analysis challenges many of the conventional assumptions about this key event in rugby history – about class conflict, amateurism in sport, the North-South divide, violence on the pitch, the development of mass spectator sport and the rise of football. This new edition is expanded to cover parallel events in Australia and New Zealand, and to address the key question of rugby league’s failure to establish itself in Wales. Rugby’s Great Split is a benchmark text in the history of rugby, and an absorbing case study of wider issues – issues of class, gender, regional and national identity, and the impact of the commercialization and recent professionalization of rugby league. This insightful text is for anyone interested in Britain’s social history or in the emergence of modern sport, it is vital reading.
