Rugby's Strangest Matches
Published on 12. February 2016
256 pages
978-1-911042-29-7 (ISBN)
Description
Rugby 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
Revised, redesigned and updated for 2016, this book makes the perfect gift for the rugby obsessive in your life.
Word count: 45,000
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minneapolis
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-911042-29-7 (9781911042297)
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Person
John Griffiths
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Dr Almond's Words of Wisdom (1871)
- Irish Chaos (1875)
- The First XVs (1877)
- And There was Light (1878)
- Lucky to Get Nil (1881)
- The Long Disputed Try (1884)
- One-Armed Player's Record (1886)
- A Heroic Act (1887)
- Time Gentlemen Please? (1889)
- A Maori Protest (1889)
- Déjà Vu (1892)
- Rugby Versus Soccer (1892)
- When the Crowd Didn't Know the Score (1893)
- The Strange Dismissal (1893)
- Oxford Win with 14 Men (1900)
- A Family Affair (1903)
- A Unique Scottish Treble (1903)
- Primitive Travel Arrangements (1905)
- Disbelieving Sports Editors (1905)
- The Referee Performs a Solo (1905)
- The Chief Constable Saves Wales (1906)
- Selectors' Cock-Up (1906)
- Seven Brothers Versus Seven Brothers (1909)
- Joe's New Year Cap (1910)
- Riotous Assembly (1913)
- A Game of Four Quarters (1913)
- Where's My Shirt? (1920)
- Two Blind Eyes (1922)
- Two Freak Scores (1923)
- Honeymoon Swan Song (1923)
- Three Pairs of Brothers (1924)
- Bronze Medal . Just for Turning up (1924)
- The Laid Back Samoans (1924)
- Moment that Silenced Twickenham (1925)
- Back to Square One (1927)
- The Foregone Conclusion (1929)
- Last-Minute Team Change (1930)
- French Outcasts (1931)
- The Wrong Score (1933)
- The Full-Back who Flouted Convention (1934)
- All Blacks Beaten by Schoolboys (1935)
- Fire Brigade Hoses Crowd (1936)
- Wartime Caps in Paris (1940)
- End of the Road (1945)
- Passport Scam (1946)
- The All Black Day (1949)
- Father Versus Son (1950)
- Murrayfield Massacre (1951)
- Did the Touch Judge Help Wales? (1953)
- The Overbearing Captain (1955)
- Entire Welsh XV Ordered Off (1957)
- Three Referees for One Match (1957)
- Twickenham Loses its Decorum (1958)
- Please can we have our Ball Back? (1958)
- Seven Shirt Changes (1958)
- France Claim World Crown (1958)
- Game that Started a Debate (1959)
- The Long Arm of the Law Tries to Intervene (1959)
- The Amazing Monsieur Drop (1960)
- Role Reversal (1961)
- Mother's Day (1961)
- Eight Tries for Heeps (1962)
- Arctic Match (1963)
- One Hundred and Eleven Line-Outs (1963)
- Hancock's Half Minute (1965)
- Refereeing History (1965)
- The Battle of Waldron's Ear (1966)
- The Unbelievable Debut (1967)
- Four Draws in Five Matches (1967)
- Referee Sent Off (1967)
- The Drop that Never was (1968)
- A Replacement's Hat-Trick (1968)
- Injured Running Out (1969)
- The Game with a Punch (1969)
- Building Site Rugby (1969)
- The Secret Affair (1969)
- Kick his Chauffeur while you're at it (1970)
- The Greatest Conversion Since St Paul's (1971)
- Doctor Doug Smith's Crystal Ball (1971)
- English Rugby's First Cup Final (1972)
- Actresses Against Models (1974)
- Up Your Jumper (1975)
- The Referee who Forgot the Laws (1976)
- The Printer's Nightmare (1980)
- A Try Awarded in Error (1981)
- Flour Bombs Interrupt Play (1981)
- The Most Famous Streaker of Them All (1982)
- Alphabet Soup (1983)
- A Very Peculiar Sending Off (1988)
- An Abandoned International (1991)
- The World Cup's Defining Moment (1991)
- Try From the End of the World (1994)
- Lights Go Out in Port Elizabeth (1995)
- Green Volvo Stops Play (1996)
- Cross Code Challenge (1996)
- England's Worst Half-Hour (1997)
- Sixty Test Points Scored at the Same End (1997)
- Fastest Test Try (1999)
- Upset of the Millennium (1999)
- European Fiasco (2000)
- Ryan's Six the Best (2000)
- Fifteen Minutes of Fame (2000)
- A Helping Hand (2000)
- Gloucester's Drop of Luck (2001)
- Our Defence is Their Enemy (2003)
- Shades of the Cold War (2004)
- Three of a Kind (2007)
- Played by Youths and Watched by Hooligans (2007)
- Bloodgate (2009)
- Penalty Shoot-Out (2009)
- Scrape to Victory (2010)
- Best Supporting Act (2010)
- A Brush with the Law (2010)
- Collector's Piece (2010)
- Like Father, Like Son? (2011)
- Dad Stops Play (2014)
- Rugby's Day of Drama (2015)
- Dog Days (2015)
- Water Break (2015)
- Brighton Shock (2015)
- Copyright
