Rugby category: 302 books

Da qualche anno il rugby si sta conquistando un seguito sempre più numeroso e particolarmente appassionato nel pubblico italiano, anche di quello femminile. Due campioni della palla ovale come Mauro e Mirco Bergamasco, affiancati da Matteo Rampin, dimostrano in queste pagine che i motivi di tanto...

"La vendetta della terza linea è un giallo generazionale che merita di essere letto. Alt. E' da leggere, ma è sconsigliato ai pasdaran del politicamente corretto e del "i valori del rugby, bla bla bla". Perché La vendetta della terza linea è tutto tranne...

L’OUVRAGE   -  AUTOBIOGRAPHIE Disparu en novembre 2015 à 40 ans, Jonah Lomu restera pour toujours une icône du rugby. Le Néo-Zélandais a été la première superstar de l’ovalie. Dans son autobiographie, il se livre comme jamais, retrace son parcours sportif et évoque sa vie en dehors...

Plongez dans la fin des années 70 aux côté de Jacques à la recherche de son idéal amoureuxRoman sur fond de rugby, entre Paris et Edimbourg, où le jeu à 15 et les amours difficiles se croisent, Flowers of Scotland nous entraîne dans l’intimité du narrateur à la poursuite de l’idéal amoureux....

**WINNER British Sports Book Awards SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR** **Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award** Gareth Thomas had it all. He was a national hero, a sporting icon. He was a leader of men, captain of Wales and the British Lions. To him, rugby was an expression...

Known to thousands of rugby fans as a knowledgeable, passionate and witty broadcaster, and as an entertaining and popular after-dinner speaker, Phil Steele’s confident demeanour and humorous disposition mask a life-long battle against depression and anxiety heightened by heartbreak and tragedy in...

This memoir begins with Phil Gifford’s personal story, followed by portraits of (mostly) sportspeople Phil had a genuinely close connection with, to the point where he can tell stories that go far beyond the public perception, many screamingly funny. The list, in no special order, is: Sir Peter...

The true story of how professional Australian Rules Football found an unlikely new source of talent in the United States. Though most Americans automatically think “rugby” when they hear or read the phrase “Australian football,” the two sports actually have very little in common besides...

Steppin' with Benji Marshall is the inspirational story of how a young man from a small town overcame huge challenges in life to become an NRL Premiership winner, a World Champion, an All Star and one of the best rugby league players in the world. Learn how Benji did it and how you can achieve your dreams too, no matter what struggles you're facing.

'"Draw"' is an inadequate way to describe what the Lions did here. They stopped one point short of a miracle.' Daily Telegraph Warren Gatland's In the Line of Fire is the ultimate chronicle of this summer's remarkable Lions tour to New Zealand - home of the fearsome All Blacks, the...

Carwyn James treated rugby football as if it was an art form and aesthetics part of the coaching manual. He was the first man to coach any British Lions side to overseas victory, and still the only one to beat the All Blacks in a series in New Zealand. That was in 1971, and it was followed in 1972...

What made Pontypool such a great seam of talent for the Welsh national team? Why were they hated and feared in equal measure by other clubs in Wales and across the Severn? What made Ray Prosser a coach ahead of his time? In this engrossing book, Alun Carter and Nick Bishop recount the dramatic...

Murrayfield, the Calcutta Cup, March 1990. England vs. Scotland - winner-takes-all for the Five Nations Grand Slam, the biggest prize in northern hemisphere rugby. Will Carling's England are the very embodiment of Margaret Thatcher's Britain - snarling, brutish and all-conquering. Scotland are the...

BRIAN O'DRISCOLL is one of the greatest outside centres in history, not just in Ireland, but throughout the world. He is Ireland's most capped player of all time and has led the team as captain in a staggering 83 tests, including leading Ireland to their first Grand Slam in 60 years when they won...