Rugby category: 302 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The Science of Rugby is the only book to examine the scientific principles underpinning the preparation of rugby players for high performance. Drawing on the very latest scientific evidence, and covering both codes (union and league), the book explores every aspect of preparation and performance that...
The Indomitable Frank Whitcombe
How a Genial Giant from Cardiff became a Rugby League Legend in Yorkshire and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Frank Whitcombe was made for rugby league and he enjoyed a glittering career in professional rugby, winning the RL Challenge Cup three times, the RL Championship three times and was capped 14 times by Wales. He quickly created a big impression on the Great Britain selectors and he waschosen for the...
by Tom Hay
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
‘Rugby is a wonderful show. Dance, opera and, suddenly, the blood of a killing.’
Richard Burton
Scrum-down and get stuck into this mini-collection of rugby humour – the very best quips and quotes for lovers of the odd-shaped ball.
L'Ovale alchemico
Il rugby come metafora della Vita
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 22, 2016
L’Épos del rugby, in un libro mistico e pieno di rivelazioni:
Perché la porta di rugby è a forma di H e la squadra è composta da 15 giocatori?
Qual è lo spirito che anima il Terzo Tempo e i riti dello spogliatoio?
Cosa rende un gruppo vincente sia sul campo da gioco che in quello della vita?
Perché...
by François DUBOISSET, Frédéric VIARD
Language: French
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Ne restez pas sur la touche !
En novembre 1823, lors d'un match de football, un élève du collège de Rugby, au nord-ouest de Londres, saisit le ballon avec la main puis, à la surprise générale, le dépose dans le but adverse. Ce faisant, William Webb Ellis entre dans la légende en inventant...
Stephen Jones
A Thinking Man's Game: My Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Since making his national debut in 1998, Stephen Jones has emerged from the shadows of the true greats of Welsh rugby, such as Barry John, Phil Bennett, Jonathan Davies and Neil Jenkins, to make the fly-half position his own. In this revealing autobiography, he provides a rare insight into the demands...
The Voice
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Ray 'Rabbits' Warren is the legendary voice of Australian sports commentary. People tell him he must have drunk a bottle of scotch and smoked a packet of cigarettes every day to have the voice that he has. That's not the case – at least, not anymore . . . The son of a railway worker, Ray placed his...
Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain
A Social and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Called ‘the greatest game of all’ by its supporters but often overlooked by the cultural mainstream, no sport is more identified with England’s northern working class than rugby league.
This book traces the story of the sport from the Northern Union of the 1900s to the formation of the...
Jim Telfer
Looking Back . . . For Once
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Jim Telfer is one of the greats of international rugby, with a career spanning more than five decades. Looking Back . . . For Once reveals how a shepherd's son from the Borders became the major driving force in the most successful days of Scottish rugby and steered the game into the professional era.
The...
Rugby: The Game of My Life
Battling for England in the Professional Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
'An excellent read' - Rugby World
Rob Andrew is one of the key figures in modern rugby history: an outstanding international who won three Grand Slams with England and toured twice with the British and Irish Lions, he also played a central role in the game's professional revolution with his...
It's Not Just a Bloody Game!
Timeless Rugby Union Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
Covering more than a century of rugby union football, IT'S NOT JUST A BLOODY GAME! brings together hundreds of the best and most colourful stories about the sport, from the days of early club rugby to the hotly contested international battles of today, including the regional competitions and the World...
The Test
My Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The bestselling autobiography of the greatest rugby player of our time: Brian O'Driscoll.
Since 1999, when he made his international debut, there has been no greater player in world rugby than Brian O'Driscoll. In 2010 Rugby World magazine named him its world player of the decade - and since...
White Gold
England's Journey to Rugby World Cup Glory
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
White Gold is a study of how and why England, the biggest and wealthiest rugby country on the planet, never dominated the game it invented on a global scale - until Clive Woodward took charge from 1997 to 2004. Ten years on from the greatest triumph in English rugby history, Peter Burns traces the...
by Phil Vickery
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
From a pint and a pie to ice baths and deep tissue massages … from Cornish Colts to World Cup final captain … from qualified cattle inseminator to owner of a sports fashion label … Phil Vickery, aka "Raging Bull", has pretty such seen and done it all in life and in rugby, straddling...