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Rugby Behind Barbed Wire - The 1969/70 Springboks Tour of Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)
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Rugby Behind Barbed Wire - The 1969/70 Springboks Tour of Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 500
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'We spent all our time surrounded by police cordons and barbed
wire, never mind having our bus hijacked.' - Tommy Bedford,
Springboks No. 8 2019 and 2020 mark the fiftieth anniversary of the
controversial 1969/70 Springbok rugby tour of the British Isles - a
landmark event on both a sporting and political level. Taking place
during the time of South Africa's apartheid dispensation, the tour
was characterised throughout by violent demonstrations against the
'ambassadors of apartheid'. Scenes of chanting demonstrators at the
players' hotels and airports were not uncommon, nor was the sight
of protesters being dragged off the field of play by police. Smoke
bombs and flour bombs also became a match-day fixture. These were
wild and unnerving times for the players on tour, whose movements
were badly inhibited and who had to play hide-and-seek to avoid
possible violence between games of rugby. During a demanding tour
that lasted more than three months and took them to and fro between
England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, they endeavoured to sustain a
proud tradition of highly successful Springbok tours through the
Isles. Through personal interviews with the players, including team
captain Dawie de Villiers, vice-captain Tommy Bedford and other
senior members of the squad, as well as key figures such as
anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain, Rugby Behind Barbed Wire
takes readers into the inner circle of a besieged group of
sportsmen who just wanted to play rugby despite concerted efforts
to deny them. The author also looks at the political context of
events, and why so many felt that disrupting the tour was a matter
of moral and political necessity.
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