Winter Colours
Changing Seasons in World Rugby
1st Edition
Published on 5. June 2014
688 pages
978-1-4711-3540-8 (ISBN)
Description
Rugby is a sport that means different things to different people around the world. So when award-winning writer Donald McRae set off to take the pulse of the sport soon after the dawn of the professional era, he began to build a portrait of the game that highlighted the contrasts between nations, who may have been united in their love for rugby, but who saw it in very different ways.
Featuring in-depth interviews with a range of great players from around the world, including Sean Fitzpatrick, Francois Pienaar and Lawrence Dallaglio among others, Winter Coloursis a compelling account of the culture of rugby as seen by its biggest stars - men who also hold dear the sport's very traditions that make it so special. This is a remarkable piece of writing and is sure to be of interest to all who follow the sport at any level.
Featuring in-depth interviews with a range of great players from around the world, including Sean Fitzpatrick, Francois Pienaar and Lawrence Dallaglio among others, Winter Coloursis a compelling account of the culture of rugby as seen by its biggest stars - men who also hold dear the sport's very traditions that make it so special. This is a remarkable piece of writing and is sure to be of interest to all who follow the sport at any level.
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Donald McRae is an award-winning author of fourteen non-fiction books which have featured sporting icons, legendary trial lawyers, heart surgeons and South Africa. He has twice won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year - the UK's most prestigious sports book prize - and ten national awards for his journalism at the Guardian.
Content
- Intro
- Author biography
- Also by the Same Author
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Dedication page
- PART ONE The Colour of My Shirt
- PART TWO Changing Seasons
- Chapter 1 Small Moments
- Chapter 2 The Black Art
- Chapter 3 Four Countries, One Team
- Chapter 4 Hard Hit
- Chapter 5 Black and Blue
- Chapter 6 On the Black Road
- Chapter 7 A Green Light in Paris
- Chapter 8 An Autumn Break
- Chapter 9 From Sudbury to Ballymena
- Chapter 10 Allez Racing, Allez Brive
- Chapter 11 Les Bleus
- Chapter 12 Five Nations Blues
- Chapter 13 Summer's Over . . . and We're All Happy
- Chapter 14 The Big Man from Pukekohe
- Chapter 15 Swimming with Sharks
- Chapter 16 South Island Surfing
- Chapter 17 Rain and Hurricanes
- Chapter 18 An Australian Spiderman
- Chapter 19 Pantomime, Again
- Chapter 20 Beyond Toulouse
- Chapter 21 A Small Ache
- Chapter 22 Black, Green and Gold
- Afterword
- Postscript
- Acknowledgements
